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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...
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 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...
Across recent years, independent trackers and academic studies converge on roughly 900–1,100 people killed by U.S. police each year, with White victims numerically larger but Black victims dramaticall...
From 2020–2023 multiple independent trackers and academic studies show were killed by police at a substantially higher per‑capita rate than , with estimates clustering between roughly 2.5 and 3.5 time...
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...
Several independent, open-source projects and a few government systems now track and most record both race and whether the person was armed; the best-known are database, ’s Counted (and successor proj...
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...
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...
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...
Police both save and kill people; available data and recent news show alongside persistent, measurable fatalities involving police, especially in the United States where documented police killings rea...
from 2015–2024 show clear racial disparities: Black Americans have faced the highest per‑person risk (about 6.2 deaths per million per year), Hispanic Americans an intermediate elevated rate (≈2.8 per...
The most widely cited and methodologically transparent tally for 2024 comes from (run by ), which records by law enforcement that year — a grim record since systematic tracking began in 2013 . Other t...
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...