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  1. People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2024, by race

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    Statista, People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2024, by race [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
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    United States
    Description

    Sadly, the trend of fatal police shootings in the United States seems to only be increasing, with a total 1,173 civilians having been shot, 248 of whom were Black, as of December 2024. In 2023, there were 1,164 fatal police shootings. Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 6.1 fatal shootings per million of the population per year between 2015 and 2024. Police brutality in the U.S. In recent years, particularly since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, police brutality has become a hot button issue in the United States. The number of homicides committed by police in the United States is often compared to those in countries such as England, where the number is significantly lower. Black Lives Matter The Black Lives Matter Movement, formed in 2013, has been a vocal part of the movement against police brutality in the U.S. by organizing “die-ins”, marches, and demonstrations in response to the killings of black men and women by police. While Black Lives Matter has become a controversial movement within the U.S., it has brought more attention to the number and frequency of police shootings of civilians.

  2. Rate of fatal police shootings U.S. 2015-2024, by ethnicity

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    Updated Nov 19, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Rate of fatal police shootings U.S. 2015-2024, by ethnicity [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123070/police-shootings-rate-ethnicity-us/
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    Nov 19, 2025
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    United States
    Description

    The rate of fatal police shootings in the United States shows large differences based on ethnicity. Among Black Americans, the rate of fatal police shootings between 2015 and December 2024 stood at 6.1 per million of the population per year, while for white Americans, the rate stood at 2.4 fatal police shootings per million of the population per year. Police brutality in the United States Police brutality is a major issue in the United States, but recently saw a spike in online awareness and protests following the murder of George Floyd, an African American who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer. Just a few months before, Breonna Taylor was fatally shot in her apartment when Louisville police officers forced entry into her apartment. Despite the repeated fatal police shootings across the country, police accountability has not been adequate according to many Americans. A majority of Black Americans thought that police officers were not held accountable for their misconduct, while less than half of White Americans thought the same. Political opinions Not only are there differences in opinion between ethnicities on police brutality, but there are also major differences between political parties. A majority of Democrats in the United States thought that police officers were not held accountable for their misconduct, while a majority of Republicans that they were held accountable. Despite opposing views on police accountability, both Democrats and Republicans agree that police should be required to be trained in nonviolent alternatives to deadly force.

  3. Dataset on US police killings 2013-2024

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    Updated May 14, 2024
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    Lord Voldemort (2024). Dataset on US police killings 2013-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/lordvoldemortt/dataset-on-us-police-killings-2013-2024
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    May 14, 2024
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    Lord Voldemort
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    Apache License, v2.0https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    This data was obtained from https://mappingpoliceviolence.us/.

    Mapping Police Violence is a 501(c)(3) organization that publishes the most comprehensive and up-to-date data on police violence in America to support transformative change.

    This is a database set on openly sharing information on police violence in America.

    Some information on this data according to their website: Our data has been meticulously sourced from official police use of force data collection programs in states like California, Texas and Virginia, combined with nationwide data from The Gun Violence Archive and the Fatal Encounters database, two impartial crowdsourced databases. We've also done extensive original research to further improve the quality and completeness of the data; searching social media, obituaries, criminal records databases, police reports and other sources to identify the race of 90 percent of all victims in the database.

    We believe the data represented on this site is the most comprehensive accounting of people killed by police since 2013. Note that the Mapping Police Violence database is more comprehensive than the Washington Post police shootings database: while WaPo only tracks cases where people are fatally shot by on-duty police officers, our database includes additional incidents such as cases where police kill someone through use of a chokehold, baton, taser or other means as well as cases such as killings by off-duty police. A recent report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated approximately 1,200 people were killed by police between June, 2015 and May, 2016. Our database identified 1,100 people killed by police over this time period. While there are undoubtedly police killings that are not included in our database (namely, those that go unreported by the media), these estimates suggest that our database captures 92% of the total number of police killings that have occurred since 2013. We hope these data will be used to provide greater transparency and accountability for police departments as part of the ongoing work to end police violence in America.

  4. A Multi-Level Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings at the...

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    Cody T. Ross (2023). A Multi-Level Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings at the County-Level in the United States, 2011–2014 [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141854
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    Jun 5, 2023
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    Authors
    Cody T. Ross
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    A geographically-resolved, multi-level Bayesian model is used to analyze the data presented in the U.S. Police-Shooting Database (USPSD) in order to investigate the extent of racial bias in the shooting of American civilians by police officers in recent years. In contrast to previous work that relied on the FBI’s Supplemental Homicide Reports that were constructed from self-reported cases of police-involved homicide, this data set is less likely to be biased by police reporting practices. County-specific relative risk outcomes of being shot by police are estimated as a function of the interaction of: 1) whether suspects/civilians were armed or unarmed, and 2) the race/ethnicity of the suspects/civilians. The results provide evidence of a significant bias in the killing of unarmed black Americans relative to unarmed white Americans, in that the probability of being {black, unarmed, and shot by police} is about 3.49 times the probability of being {white, unarmed, and shot by police} on average. Furthermore, the results of multi-level modeling show that there exists significant heterogeneity across counties in the extent of racial bias in police shootings, with some counties showing relative risk ratios of 20 to 1 or more. Finally, analysis of police shooting data as a function of county-level predictors suggests that racial bias in police shootings is most likely to emerge in police departments in larger metropolitan counties with low median incomes and a sizable portion of black residents, especially when there is high financial inequality in that county. There is no relationship between county-level racial bias in police shootings and crime rates (even race-specific crime rates), meaning that the racial bias observed in police shootings in this data set is not explainable as a response to local-level crime rates.

  5. Number of people killed by police by ethnicity U.S. 2013-2024

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    Updated Nov 15, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Number of people killed by police by ethnicity U.S. 2013-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1124036/number-people-killed-police-ethnicity-us/
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    Nov 15, 2024
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    As of November 17, 277 Black people were killed by the police in the United States in 2024. This compares to 201 Hispanic people and 445 white people. The rate of police shootings of Black Americans is much higher than any other ethnicity, at 6.2 per million people. This rate stands at 2.8 per million for Hispanic people and 2.4 per million for white people.

  6. f

    Data from: On Racial Disparities in Recent Fatal Police Shootings

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    Updated Jun 5, 2023
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    Lucas Mentch (2023). On Racial Disparities in Recent Fatal Police Shootings [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11716641.v1
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    Jun 5, 2023
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    Taylor & Francis
    Authors
    Lucas Mentch
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    Fatal police shootings in the United States continue to be a polarizing social and political issue. Clear disagreement between racial proportions of victims and nationwide racial demographics together with graphic video footage has created fertile ground for controversy. However, simple population level summary statistics fail to take into account fundamental local characteristics such as county-level racial demography, local arrest demography, and law enforcement density. Using data on fatal police shootings between January 2015 and July 2016, I implement a number of straightforward resampling procedures designed to carefully examine how unlikely the victim totals from each race are with respect to these local population characteristics if no racial bias were present in the decision to shoot by police. I present several approaches considering the shooting locations both as fixed and also as a random sample. In both cases, I find overwhelming evidence of a racial disparity in shooting victims with respect to local population demographics but substantially less disparity after accounting for local arrest demographics. I conclude the analyses by examining the effect of police-worn body cameras and find no evidence that the presence of such cameras impacts the racial distribution of victims. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

  7. Police Killings US

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    Updated Feb 6, 2022
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    Matthew Connor (2022). Police Killings US [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/azizozmen/police-killings-us
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    Dataset updated
    Feb 6, 2022
    Authors
    Matthew Connor
    Description

    "In 2015, The Washington Post began to log every fatal shooting by an on-duty police officer in the United States. In that time there have been more than 5,000 such shootings recorded by The Post. After Michael Brown, an unarmed Black man, was killed in 2014 by police in Ferguson, Mo., a Post investigation found that the FBI undercounted fatal police shootings by more than half. This is because reporting by police departments is voluntary and many departments fail to do so. The Washington Post’s data relies primarily on news accounts, social media postings, and police reports. Analysis of more than five years of data reveals that the number and circumstances of fatal shootings and the overall demographics of the victims have remained relatively constant..." SOURCE ==> Washington Post Article

    For more information about this story

    This dataset has been prepared by The Washington Post (they keep updating it on runtime) with every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty since Jan. 1, 2015.

    2016 PoliceKillingUS DATASET
    2017 PoliceKillingUS DATASET
    2018 PoliceKillingUS DATASET
    2019 PoliceKillingUS DATASET
    2020 PoliceKillingUS DATASET

    Features at the Dataset:

    The file fatal-police-shootings-data.csv contains data about each fatal shooting in CSV format. The file can be downloaded at this URL. Each row has the following variables:

    • id: a unique identifier for each victim
    • name: the name of the victim
    • date: the date of the fatal shooting in YYYY-MM-DD format
    • manner_of_death: shot, shot and Tasered
    • armed: indicates that the victim was armed with some sort of implement that a police officer believed could inflict harm
      • undetermined: it is not known whether or not the victim had a weapon
      • unknown: the victim was armed, but it is not known what the object was
      • unarmed: the victim was not armed
    • age: the age of the victim
    • gender: the gender of the victim. The Post identifies victims by the gender they identify with if reports indicate that it differs from their biological sex.
      • M: Male
      • F: Female
      • None: unknown
    • race:
      • W: White, non-Hispanic
      • B: Black, non-Hispanic
      • A: Asian
      • N: Native American
      • H: Hispanic
      • O: Other
      • None: unknown
    • city: the municipality where the fatal shooting took place. Note that in some cases this field may contain a county name if a more specific municipality is unavailable or unknown.
    • state: two-letter postal code abbreviation
    • signs of mental illness: News reports have indicated the victim had a history of mental health issues, expressed suicidal intentions or was experiencing mental distress at the time of the shooting.
    • threat_level: The threat_level column was used to flag incidents for the story by Amy Brittain in October 2015. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/10/24/on-duty-under-fire/ As described in the story, the general criteria for the attack label was that there was the most direct and immediate threat to life. That would include incidents where officers or others were shot at, threatened with a gun, attacked with other weapons or physical force, etc. The attack category is meant to flag the highest level of threat. The other and undetermined categories represent all remaining cases. Other includes many incidents where officers or others faced significant threats.
    • flee: News reports have indicated the victim was moving away from officers
      • Foot
      • Car
      • Not fleeing

    The threat column and the fleeing column are not necessarily related. For example, there is an incident in which the suspect is fleeing and at the same time turns to fire at gun at the officer. Also, attacks represent a status immediately before fatal shots by police while fleeing could begin slightly earlier and involve a chase. - body_camera: News reports have indicated an officer w...

  8. 👮‍♂️🔫US Police Shootings from 2015- Sep 2022

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    Updated Sep 12, 2022
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    Ram Jas (2022). 👮‍♂️🔫US Police Shootings from 2015- Sep 2022 [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ramjasmaurya/us-police-shootings-from-20152022
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    Sep 12, 2022
    Authors
    Ram Jas
    License

    https://www.usa.gov/government-works/https://www.usa.gov/government-works/

    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    About Dataset:

    Don't Forget to Upvote the dataset.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Police_killings_in_the_USA_in_2018.svg/220px-Police_killings_in_the_USA_in_2018.svg.png" alt="">

    Below are lists of people killed by law enforcement in the United States, both on duty and off duty. 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.

    Deaths by age group in 2015, according to The Counted

    Column Details:

    COLUMN NAMEINFO
    idSERIAL NO
    nameNAME OF VICTIM THAT GOT SHOT OR TASERED BY POLICE
    dateDATE IN WHICH HE GOT VICTIMIZED
    manner_of_deathTYPE OF MANNER IN WHICH HE DIED
    armedTHE VICTIM WAS ARMED OR NOT
    ageAGE OF VICTIM
    genderGENDER OF VICTIM
    raceRACE,ETHICITY OF VICTIM
    cityCITY IN THE USA IN which he/she DIED
    stateSTATE IN THE USA IN which he/she DIED
    signs_of_mental_illnessVICTIM SHOWS SIGN OF ILLNESS
    threat_levelLEVEL OF THREAT ON POLICE
    fleeVICTIM FLEE OR DIE
    body_cameraBODY CAMERA WAS ON POLICE OR NOT
    longitudeLONGITUDE OF LOCATION
    latitudeLATITUDE OF LOCATION
    is_geocoding_exactLOCATION AVAILABLE EXACT OR NOT

    TO KNOW MORE FROM WIKIPEDIA :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States

  9. Number of people killed by police U.S. 2013-2025

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    Updated Jun 15, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Number of people killed by police U.S. 2013-2025 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1362796/number-people-killed-police-us/
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    Jun 15, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    The killing of Tyre Nichols in January 2023 by Memphis Police Officers has reignited debates about police brutality in the United States. Between 2013 and 2024, over 1,000 people have been killed by police every year. Some of the most infamous examples include the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 and the shooting of Breonna Taylor earlier that year. Within the provided time period, the most people killed by police in the United States was in 2024, at 1,375 people. Police Violence in the U.S. Police violence is defined as any instance where a police officer’s use of force results in a civilian’s death, regardless of whether it is considered justified by the law. While many people killed by police in the U.S. were shot, other causes of death have included tasers, vehicles, and physical restraints or beatings. In the United States, the rate of police shootings is much higher for Black Americans than it is for any other ethnicity, and recent incidents of police killing unarmed Black men and women in the United States have led to widespread protests against police brutality, particularly towards communities of color. America’s Persistent Police Problem Despite increasing visibility surrounding police violence in recent years, police killings have continued to occur in the United States at a consistently high rate. In comparison to other countries, police in the U.S. have killed people at a rate three times higher than police in Canada and 60 times the rate of police in England. While U.S. police have killed people in almost all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, New Mexico was reported to have the highest rate of people killed by the police in the United States, with 8.03 people per million inhabitants killed by police.

  10. Fatal Police Shootings in the US

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    Updated Sep 22, 2017
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    Karolina Wullum (2017). Fatal Police Shootings in the US [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kwullum/fatal-police-shootings-in-the-us/discussion
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    Sep 22, 2017
    Authors
    Karolina Wullum
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    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, began the protest movement culminating in Black Lives Matter and an increased focus on police accountability nationwide.

    Since Jan. 1, 2015, The Washington Post has been compiling a database of every fatal shooting in the US by a police officer in the line of duty. It's difficult to find reliable data from before this period, as police killings haven't been comprehensively documented, and the statistics on police brutality are much less available. As a result, a vast number of cases go unreported.

    The Washington Post is tracking more than a dozen details about each killing - including the race, age and gender of the deceased, whether the person was armed, and whether the victim was experiencing a mental-health crisis. They have gathered this information from law enforcement websites, local new reports, social media, and by monitoring independent databases such as "Killed by police" and "Fatal Encounters". The Post has also conducted additional reporting in many cases.

    There are four additional datasets. These are US census data on poverty rate, high school graduation rate, median household income, and racial demographics.

    Source of census data: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_facts.xhtml

  11. People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2024, by gender

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    Updated Sep 22, 2025
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    Statista (2025). People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2024, by gender [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585149/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-gender/
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    Sep 22, 2025
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    In the United States, more men than women are shot to death by the police. As of October 22, the U.S. police shot 904 men and 44 women to death in 2024. In 2023, the police shot 1,107 men and 48 women to death.

  12. People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2024, by weapon carried

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    Updated Sep 22, 2025
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    Statista (2025). People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2024, by weapon carried [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585140/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-weapon-carried-2016/
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    Sep 22, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    As of October 22, police in the United States had shot 23 unarmed people to death in 2024. The most common weapon for a victim of a fatal police shooting to be carrying is a gun. In 2023, 717 people carrying a gun were shot and killed by the U.S. police.

  13. Fatal Police Shootings

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    Brendan Hasz (2018). Fatal Police Shootings [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/brendanhasz/fatal-police-shootings
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    Dataset updated
    Jul 8, 2018
    Authors
    Brendan Hasz
    Description

    Context

    This dataset contains information about fatal shooting of civilians by police officers in the US since Jan 1st, 2015. The data about the shootings was collected by the Washington Post in their fatal police shootings dataset. The city locations were geocoded using OpenStreetMap Nominatim.

    Content

    fatal-police-shootings-data.csv contains information about each shooting. Each row is a shooting, and columns contain information about

    • Name of the individual shot
    • Date of the shooting
    • Manner of death of the individual shot
    • If and how the individual shot was armed
    • Age of the individual shot
    • Gender of the individual shot
    • Race of the individual shot
    • Whether the individual shot displayed signs of mental illness
    • To what level the individual shot was attacking when shot
    • If and how the individual shot was fleeing from police
    • If an officer present for the shooting was wearing a body camera

    CityLocations.csv contains the latitude and longitude for each city present in fatal-police-shootings-data.csv.

    Acknowledgements and Licenses

    The data in fatal-police-shootings-data.csv was collected by the Washington Post, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License.

    The data in CityLocations.csv was geocoded using OpenStreetMap Nominatim, and is licensed under the Open Database License.

    Cover image by Spenser.

  14. C

    Violence Reduction - Victim Demographics - Aggregated

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    Updated Dec 2, 2025
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    City of Chicago (2025). Violence Reduction - Victim Demographics - Aggregated [Dataset]. https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Violence-Reduction-Victim-Demographics-Aggregated/gj7a-742p
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    Dataset updated
    Dec 2, 2025
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    City of Chicago
    Description

    This dataset contains aggregate data on violent index victimizations at the quarter level of each year (i.e., January – March, April – June, July – September, October – December), from 2001 to the present (1991 to present for Homicides), with a focus on those related to gun violence. Index crimes are 10 crime types selected by the FBI (codes 1-4) for special focus due to their seriousness and frequency. This dataset includes only those index crimes that involve bodily harm or the threat of bodily harm and are reported to the Chicago Police Department (CPD). Each row is aggregated up to victimization type, age group, sex, race, and whether the victimization was domestic-related. Aggregating at the quarter level provides large enough blocks of incidents to protect anonymity while allowing the end user to observe inter-year and intra-year variation. Any row where there were fewer than three incidents during a given quarter has been deleted to help prevent re-identification of victims. For example, if there were three domestic criminal sexual assaults during January to March 2020, all victims associated with those incidents have been removed from this dataset. Human trafficking victimizations have been aggregated separately due to the extremely small number of victimizations.

    This dataset includes a " GUNSHOT_INJURY_I " column to indicate whether the victimization involved a shooting, showing either Yes ("Y"), No ("N"), or Unknown ("UKNOWN.") For homicides, injury descriptions are available dating back to 1991, so the "shooting" column will read either "Y" or "N" to indicate whether the homicide was a fatal shooting or not. For non-fatal shootings, data is only available as of 2010. As a result, for any non-fatal shootings that occurred from 2010 to the present, the shooting column will read as “Y.” Non-fatal shooting victims will not be included in this dataset prior to 2010; they will be included in the authorized dataset, but with "UNKNOWN" in the shooting column.

    The dataset is refreshed daily, but excludes the most recent complete day to allow CPD time to gather the best available information. Each time the dataset is refreshed, records can change as CPD learns more about each victimization, especially those victimizations that are most recent. The data on the Mayor's Office Violence Reduction Dashboard is updated daily with an approximately 48-hour lag. As cases are passed from the initial reporting officer to the investigating detectives, some recorded data about incidents and victimizations may change once additional information arises. Regularly updated datasets on the City's public portal may change to reflect new or corrected information.

    How does this dataset classify victims?

    The methodology by which this dataset classifies victims of violent crime differs by victimization type:

    Homicide and non-fatal shooting victims: A victimization is considered a homicide victimization or non-fatal shooting victimization depending on its presence in CPD's homicide victims data table or its shooting victims data table. A victimization is considered a homicide only if it is present in CPD's homicide data table, while a victimization is considered a non-fatal shooting only if it is present in CPD's shooting data tables and absent from CPD's homicide data table.

    To determine the IUCR code of homicide and non-fatal shooting victimizations, we defer to the incident IUCR code available in CPD's Crimes, 2001-present dataset (available on the City's open data portal). If the IUCR code in CPD's Crimes dataset is inconsistent with the homicide/non-fatal shooting categorization, we defer to CPD's Victims dataset.

    For a criminal homicide, the only sensible IUCR codes are 0110 (first-degree murder) or 0130 (second-degree murder). For a non-fatal shooting, a sensible IUCR code must signify a criminal sexual assault, a robbery, or, most commonly, an aggravated battery. In rare instances, the IUCR code in CPD's Crimes and Victims dataset do not align with the homicide/non-fatal shooting categorization:

    1. In instances where a homicide victimization does not correspond to an IUCR code 0110 or 0130, we set the IUCR code to "01XX" to indicate that the victimization was a homicide but we do not know whether it was a first-degree murder (IUCR code = 0110) or a second-degree murder (IUCR code = 0130).
    2. When a non-fatal shooting victimization does not correspond to an IUCR code that signifies a criminal sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated battery, we enter “UNK” in the IUCR column, “YES” in the GUNSHOT_I column, and “NON-FATAL” in the PRIMARY column to indicate that the victim was non-fatally shot, but the precise IUCR code is unknown.

    Other violent crime victims: For other violent crime types, we refer to the IUCR classification that exists in CPD's victim table, with only one exception:

    1. When there is an incident that is associated with no victim with a matching IUCR code, we assume that this is an error. Every crime should have at least 1 victim with a matching IUCR code. In these cases, we change the IUCR code to reflect the incident IUCR code because CPD's incident table is considered to be more reliable than the victim table.

    Note: All businesses identified as victims in CPD data have been removed from this dataset.

    Note: The definition of “homicide” (shooting or otherwise) does not include justifiable homicide or involuntary manslaughter. This dataset also excludes any cases that CPD considers to be “unfounded” or “noncriminal.”

    Note: In some instances, the police department's raw incident-level data and victim-level data that were inputs into this dataset do not align on the type of crime that occurred. In those instances, this dataset attempts to correct mismatches between incident and victim specific crime types. When it is not possible to determine which victims are associated with the most recent crime determination, the dataset will show empty cells in the respective demographic fields (age, sex, race, etc.).

    Note: The initial reporting officer usually asks victims to report demographic data. If victims are unable to recall, the reporting officer will use their best judgment. “Unknown” can be reported if it is truly unknown.

  15. People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2024, by month

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    Updated Sep 22, 2025
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    Statista (2025). People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2024, by month [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585159/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-month/
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    Sep 22, 2025
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    United States
    Description

    As of December 31, the U.S. police shot 1,173 people to death in 2024. In 2023, 1,164 people were shot to death by police in the United States. Police treatment Since as early as the 18th century, police brutality has been a significant issue in the United States. Black Americans have been especially marginalized by police officers, as they have faced higher rates of fatal police shootings compared to other ethnicities. Disparities also exist in perceptions of police treatment depending on ethnicity. A majority of Black Americans think that Black and White people do not receive equal police treatment, while more than half of White and Hispanic Americans think the same. Police reform The upsurge in Black Lives Matter protests in response to the killing of Black Americans as a result of police brutality has created a call for police reform. In 2019, it was found that police killings decreased by a quarter in police departments that implemented a policy that requires officers to use all other means before shooting. Since the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, 21 states, including New York and California, have passed bills that focused on police supervision.

  16. Fatal Police Shootings in the US (2015-2020)

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    Updated Jun 1, 2020
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    Larxel (2020). Fatal Police Shootings in the US (2015-2020) [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/andrewmvd/police-deadly-force-usage-us/code
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    zip(135929 bytes)Available download formats
    Dataset updated
    Jun 1, 2020
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    Larxel
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    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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    Description

    About this dataset

    The Washington Post compiled a dataset of every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty since Jan. 1, 2015.

    In 2015, The Post began tracking more than a dozen details about each killing by culling local news reports, law enforcement websites and social media and by monitoring independent databases such as Killed by Police and Fatal Encounters. The available features are: - Race of the deceased; - Circumstances of the shooting; - Whether the person was armed; - Whether the victim was experiencing a mental-health crisis; - Among others.

    In 2016, The Post is gathering additional information about each fatal shooting that occurs this year and is filing open-records requests with departments. More than a dozen additional details are being collected about officers in each shooting.

    The Post is documenting only those shootings in which a police officer, in the line of duty, shot and killed a civilian — the circumstances that most closely parallel the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., which began the protest movement culminating in Black Lives Matter and an increased focus on police accountability nationwide. The Post is not tracking deaths of people in police custody, fatal shootings by off-duty officers or non-shooting deaths.

    The FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention log fatal shootings by police, but officials acknowledge that their data is incomplete. In 2015, The Post documented more than two times more fatal shootings by police than had been recorded by the FBI. Last year, the FBI announced plans to overhaul how it tracks fatal police encounters.

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    If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the authors.

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    @misc{wapo-police-shootings-bot , author = {The Washington Post}, title = {data-police-shootings}, month = jan, year = 2015, publisher = {Github}, url = {https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings} }

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  17. Number of fatal police shootings England and Wales 2004-2024

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    Updated Oct 15, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Number of fatal police shootings England and Wales 2004-2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/319246/police-fatal-shootings-england-wales/
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    Oct 15, 2024
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    Time period covered
    Apr 1, 2004 - Mar 31, 2024
    Area covered
    Wales
    Description

    In 2023/24, the police in England and Wales fatally shot two people, compared with three in the previous reporting year, and six in 2016/17. During the same reporting year, the police used firearms twice, compared with ten times in 2022/23. In general, the police in England and Wales and in the rest of the UK do not have a tradition of carrying firearms, with the country having some of the strictest gun laws in the world. In 2023/24, out of around 147,746 police officers, just 5,861 were licensed to carry firearms in England and Wales. Comparisons with the United States Among developed economies, the United States is something of an outlier when it comes to police shootings. In 2024, it is estimated that the police in the United States fatally shot 1,173 people. There are also significant disparities based on a person's ethnicity. Between 2015 and March 2024, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was 6.1 per one million people, 2.7 per million people for Hispanic Americans and 2.4 per million people for white Americans. Gun violence overall is also far more prevalent in the United States, with 42 percent of American households owning a firearm as of 2023. Gun homicides rare in England and Wales Of the 583 homicides that took place in England and Wales in 2023/24, just 22 were committed by a person using a firearm. By far the most common method of killing was using a knife or other sharp instrument, at 262 homicides, or around 46 percent of them. Compared with twenty years ago, homicides in England and Wales have declined, falling from 1,047 in 2002/03, to just 533 in 2014/15. After this point, annual homicides rose, and by 2016/17 there were more than 700 homicides recorded in England and Wales. Although there have been some fluctuations, particularly during 2020/21 at the height of COVID-19 lockdowns.

  18. Shootings

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    Updated Dec 2, 2025
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    Boston Police Department (2025). Shootings [Dataset]. https://data.boston.gov/dataset/shootings
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    Dec 2, 2025
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    Description

    The Shootings dashboard contains information on shooting incidents where a victim was struck by a bullet, either fatally or non-fatally; that occurred in the City of Boston and fall under Boston Police Department jurisdiction. The dashboard does not contain records for self-inflicted gunshot wounds or shootings determined to be justifiable. Information on the incident, and the demographics of victims are included. This information is updated based on analysis conducted by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center under the Boston Police Department Bureau of Intelligence and Analysis. The data is for 2015 forward, with a 7 day rolling delay to allow for analysis and data entry to occur.

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    Replication Data for: Seeing Blue in Black and White: Race and Perceptions...

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    Updated Sep 4, 2020
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    Hakeem Jefferson (2020). Replication Data for: Seeing Blue in Black and White: Race and Perceptions of Officer-Involved Shootings [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7XST1I
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    Sep 4, 2020
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    Authors
    Hakeem Jefferson
    License

    CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedicationhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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    Description

    Following racially charged events, individuals often diverge in perceptions of what happened and how justice should be served. Examining data gathered shortly after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri alongside reactions to a novel officer-involved shooting, we unpack the processes by which racial divisions emerge. Even in a controlled information environment, White Americans preferred information that supported claims of a justified shooting. Conversely, Black Americans preferred information that implied the officer behaved inappropriately. These differences stemmed from two distinct processes: we find some evidence for a form of race-based motivated reasoning and strong evidence for belief updating based on racially distinct priors. Differences in summary judgments were larger when individuals identified strongly with their racial group or when expectations about the typical behaviors of Black Americans and police diverged. The findings elucidate processes whereby individuals in different social groups come to accept differing narratives about contentious events.

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    Louisville Metro KY - Officer Involved Shooting Database and Statistical...

    • data.louisvilleky.gov
    • data.lojic.org
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    Updated May 25, 2022
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    Louisville/Jefferson County Information Consortium (2022). Louisville Metro KY - Officer Involved Shooting Database and Statistical Analysis 08-04-2021 [Dataset]. https://data.louisvilleky.gov/documents/daf3bbcacaa14edab904cbcfd9c89a3f
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    May 25, 2022
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Louisville/Jefferson County Information Consortium
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    https://louisville-metro-opendata-lojic.hub.arcgis.com/pages/terms-of-use-and-licensehttps://louisville-metro-opendata-lojic.hub.arcgis.com/pages/terms-of-use-and-license

    Area covered
    Louisville, Kentucky
    Description

    Officer Involved Shooting (OIS) Database and Statistical Analysis. Data is updated after there is an officer involved shooting.PIU#Incident # - the number associated with either the incident or used as reference to store the items in our evidence rooms Date of Occurrence Month - month the incident occurred (Note the year is labeled on the tab of the spreadsheet)Date of Occurrence Day - day of the month the incident occurred (Note the year is labeled on the tab of the spreadsheet)Time of Occurrence - time the incident occurredAddress of incident - the location the incident occurredDivision - the LMPD division in which the incident actually occurredBeat - the LMPD beat in which the incident actually occurredInvestigation Type - the type of investigation (shooting or death)Case Status - status of the case (open or closed)Suspect Name - the name of the suspect involved in the incidentSuspect Race - the race of the suspect involved in the incident (W-White, B-Black)Suspect Sex - the gender of the suspect involved in the incidentSuspect Age - the age of the suspect involved in the incidentSuspect Ethnicity - the ethnicity of the suspect involved in the incident (H-Hispanic, N-Not Hispanic)Suspect Weapon - the type of weapon the suspect used in the incidentOfficer Name - the name of the officer involved in the incidentOfficer Race - the race of the officer involved in the incident (W-White, B-Black, A-Asian)Officer Sex - the gender of the officer involved in the incidentOfficer Age - the age of the officer involved in the incidentOfficer Ethnicity - the ethnicity of the suspect involved in the incident (H-Hispanic, N-Not Hispanic)Officer Years of Service - the number of years the officer has been serving at the time of the incidentLethal Y/N - whether or not the incident involved a death (Y-Yes, N-No, continued-pending)Narrative - a description of what was determined from the investigationContact:Carol Boylecarol.boyle@louisvilleky.gov

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People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2024, by race

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United States
Description

Sadly, the trend of fatal police shootings in the United States seems to only be increasing, with a total 1,173 civilians having been shot, 248 of whom were Black, as of December 2024. In 2023, there were 1,164 fatal police shootings. Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 6.1 fatal shootings per million of the population per year between 2015 and 2024. Police brutality in the U.S. In recent years, particularly since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, police brutality has become a hot button issue in the United States. The number of homicides committed by police in the United States is often compared to those in countries such as England, where the number is significantly lower. Black Lives Matter The Black Lives Matter Movement, formed in 2013, has been a vocal part of the movement against police brutality in the U.S. by organizing “die-ins”, marches, and demonstrations in response to the killings of black men and women by police. While Black Lives Matter has become a controversial movement within the U.S., it has brought more attention to the number and frequency of police shootings of civilians.

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