Lists of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States

Below are lists of people killed by law enforcement in the United States, both on duty and off duty. 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 1,240 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
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Map of police killings in the United States in 2018.[1]

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 1,146 deaths and 1,093 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][7]

Lists of killings

The numbers show how many total killings per year are recorded in the linked lists, not the actual number of people killed by law enforcement.

Year (total)Month
Pre-2009 (176) List
2009 (72) 2009 full year
2010 (299) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2011 (173) 2011 full year
2012 (609) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2013 (345) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2014 (634) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2015 (848) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2016 (201) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2017 (140) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2018 (406) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2019 (619) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2020 (353) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug

See also

References
  1. Peeples, Lynne (4 September 2019). "What the data say about police shootings". Nature.com. data from Mapping Police Violence. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  2. Johnson, Kevin (October 15, 2008). "FBI: Justifiable homicides at highest in more than a decade". USA Today.
  3. Bialik, Carl (March 6, 2015). "A New Estimate Of Killings By Police Is Way Higher — And Still Too Low". FiveThirtyEight.
  4. "The Counted: People killed by police in the US". The Guardian. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  5. Sullivan, John; Hawkins, Derek (April 1, 2016). "In fatal shootings by police, 1 in 5 officers' names go undisclosed". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 7, 2016.
  6. "Fatal Force: 2019 police shootings database". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  7. "Mapping Police Violence". Mapping Police Violence. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
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