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Lists of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States

Lists of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States (click link or go to:
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Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not collect these data either.[1]

The annual average number of justifiable homicides alone was previously estimated to be near 400.[2] Updated estimates from the Bureau of Justice Statistics released in 2015 estimate the number to be around 930 per year, or 1240 if assuming that non-reporting local agencies kill people at the same rate as reporting agencies.[3]

Deaths by age group in 2015, according to The Counted
Around 2015-2016, The Guardian newspaper ran its own database, The Counted, which tracked US killings by police and other law enforcement agencies including from gunshots, tasers, car accidents and custody deaths. In 2015 they counted 1146 deaths and 1093 deaths for 2016. The database can be viewed by state, gender, race/ethnicity, age, classification (e.g., "gunshot"), and whether the person killed was armed.[4]

The Washington Post has tracked shootings since 2015, reporting more than 5,000 incidents since their tracking began.[5] The database can also classify people in various categories including race, age, weapon etc. For 2019, it reported a total of 1,004 people shot and killed by police.[6]

Year (Total) Month
Pre-2009 (170) Click here for the lists
2009 (72) List not separated by month (click here for the full year)
2010 (297) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2011 (172) List not separated by month (click here for the full year)
2012 (609) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2013 (344) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2014 (635) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2015 (849) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2016 (200) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2017 (139) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2018 (402) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2019 (139) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2020 (26) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun

See also
List of killings by law enforcement officers by country
Death in custody § United States
Encounter killings by police (India)
List of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in the United States
List of cases of police brutality
Lists of killings by law enforcement officers
Police brutality in the United States
Police misconduct § United States
Police riot § United States
Police use of deadly force in the United States
References
Tony Dokoupil (January 14, 2014). "What is police brutality? Depends on where you live". NBC News.
Johnson, Kevin (October 15, 2008). "FBI: Justifiable homicides at highest in more than a decade". USA Today.
Bialik, Carl (March 6, 2015). "A New Estimate Of Killings By Police Is Way Higher — And Still Too Low". FiveThirtyEight.
"The Counted: People killed by police in the US". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
Sullivan, John; Hawkins, Derek (1 April 2016). "In fatal shootings by police, 1 in 5 officers' names go undisclosed". The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
"Fatal Force: 2019 police shootings database". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-06-08.

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