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American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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Oct 21, 2025

What are the most recent statistics on police shootings by race in the US?

A set of recent analyses shows rising counts and persistent racial disparities in U.S. police killings through 2024–2025, with compared with White Americans. Campaign Zero’s 2024 data found at least 1...

Oct 7, 2025

Are black people killed by police at a rate disproportionate to other minority groups

Multiple independent analyses and recent studies indicate , with social and place-based factors amplifying risk. Data points from news reports about individual incidents and peer-reviewed research con...

Nov 27, 2025

How have annual rates of police shootings per 100,000 people varied by race over the last decade?

Across multiple datasets and studies the Washington Post’s Fatal Force database — widely used in research — shows persistent racial differences in annual fatal police-shooting rates: for 2015–2024 the...

Oct 6, 2025

What role does socioeconomic status play in mass shootings in America?

Studies in 2025–2026 link higher rates of interpersonal firearm violence and fatal police shootings to concentrated social vulnerability, historical redlining, and poverty, while reporting on recent m...

Jan 9, 2026

How do police shooting rates compare between white and black communities in the US?

Black Americans are shot and injured by police at higher rates than White Americans even though White people account for a larger share of total police shooting deaths; multiple data projects and peer...