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Countries with the most and fewest police killings per year. Brazil has the highest number of police killings at 6,160, nearly six times that of the United States. Rio de Janeiro, the country’s most violent state and much of which is under the control of drug-trafficking gangs, has the highest number of police killings.
See also: List of killings by law enforcement officers in China Portugal: Europe 1 1 0 0 0 10,290,000 1.0 2018 Sweden: Europe 1 1 0 0 0 10,327,589 1.0 2019 Taiwan: Asia 2 2 0 0 0 23,580,000 0.8 2018 United Kingdom: Europe 3 3 0 0 0 66,040,229 0.5 2019 Fatal shootings.
May 17, 2021 · In 2020, 49 police officers were shot dead while on duty. What goes through a policeman's head before he shoots. In the same year, officers killed more than 20 times as many civilians - and...
- Jake Horton
Dec 5, 2022 · Filter the Washington Post database, which includes police shooting statistics since January 2015, by unarmed police shootings, race and age of victim and more.
- Washington Post Staff
Sep 5, 2019 · In the United States, police officers fatally shoot about three people per day on average, a number that’s close to the yearly totals for other wealthy nations. But data on these deadly...
Mar 29, 2022 · Seventy-three U.S. police officers were gunned down in 2021. During that same year, officers shot and killed roughly sixteen times more civilians.
Rate of police killings in selected countries 2019. Published by Statista Research Department , Aug 25, 2023. The rate of civilians killed by police in the United States is far higher than...
