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Available reporting and databases disagree on counting methods, but multiple reputable sources using crowd‑tracked datasets show a measurable number of unarmed Black people killed by police since 2015...
Available databases and reporting show that U.S. police kill roughly 1,000–1,300 people per year, and Black people are killed at more than twice the rate of White people, while accounting for about 13...
Estimates from comprehensive databases show police kill roughly 1,000 people a year in recent years, and unarmed victims are a smaller but persistent subset — for example, The New York Times and Mappi...
Available data sources show that police shootings have averaged roughly 900–1,200 fatalities per year since 2015, with non-governmental trackers (notably The Washington Post’s Fatal Force data summari...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive percentage of people killed by police specifically during traffic stops; however, multiple datasets and analyses give partial figures and context....
Black Americans are killed by police at roughly twice the rate of White Americans when adjusted for population: studies using Washington Post–based rates report about 6.1 per million for Black people ...
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...
Major independent trackers of U.S. police killings include The Washington Post’s Fatal Force database, Mapping Police Violence, academic studies that compile multiple sources, and aggregated sites suc...
Las estimaciones convergen en que las fuerzas de seguridad de Estados Unidos matan entre aproximadamente 900 y 1,400 personas por año, con la mayoría de bases de datos independientes y medios situando...
Traffic-stop–initiated killings are a clear and recurring slice of U.S. police fatalities, but how large that slice is depends on who counts and how: mainstream data-collection projects report that ro...
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...
Researchers calculate police-killing rates per 100,000 by taking counts of people killed by police (from databases such as The Washington Post or Mapping Police Violence) and dividing those counts by ...
Available data show substantial numbers of children and juveniles harmed both by police shootings and by broader urban/gun violence, but the sources provided do not directly compare “kids killed while...
Databases that track “unarmed” in police shootings rely on non-governmental compilation and local reporting; major trackers like The Washington Post and Mapping Police Violence label armed status usin...
There is substantial, consistent reporting in 2025 of multiple deaths in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody — with public tallies indicating at least ten deaths in the first half o...
Independent databases diverge in scope and methods, producing different counts and trend stories: The Washington Post counts fatal police shootings since 2015 and reports roughly 1,000+ fatal shooting...
Independent databases such as Mapping Police Violence (MPV) and projects compiled by newsrooms (The Washington Post) and nonprofits generally record more incidents and broader types of force than FBI ...
The Washington Post’s Fatal Force database has tracked nearly 8,000 fatal police shootings since 2015 and finds an upward trend and racial disparities — reporting that Black people are fatally shot by...
Available analyses and metadata indicate that the sources supplied do not contain a ready-made ranking of U.S. states by , and no single provided document delivers that precise statistic for the full ...
New Mexico had the highest per-capita rate of police killings in 2024 according to Mapping Police Violence’s 2024 report, and Black people face substantially higher odds of being killed by police nati...