List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States

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

The Washington Post is maintaining a database of police shooting deaths: occasions where a U.S. law enforcement officer shot and killed someone in the line of duty, covering 2015 through the present.

The English newspaper The Guardian has collected and organized in a database reports of killings by U.S. law enforcement officers in 2015 and 2016, and found that they are incorrectly reported in over 50% of the cases. They also found that "the accuracy varied wildly by state, with just 17.6% misclassification in Washington [state], but 100% in Oklahoma."

Percent of each US state's population, ranging as high as 0.00002%, killed by law enforcement officers in the 22 months ending November 8th, 2016

Contents

Lists of killingsEdit

• List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2018 (listed: 357)
• List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2017 (listed: 126)
• List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2016 (listed: 197)
• List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2015 (listed: 848)
• List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2014 (listed: 634)
• List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2013 (listed: 344)
• List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2012 (listed: 609)
• List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2011 (listed: 173)
• List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2010 (listed: 297)
• List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2009 (listed: 73)
• List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States prior to 2009 (listed: 176)

See alsoEdit

• List of killings by law enforcement officers by countries
• Death in custody
• Encounter killings by police (India)
• List of American police officers killed in the line of duty
• List of cases of police brutality
• Lists of killings by law enforcement officers
• Lynching in the United States
• Police brutality in the United States
• Police misconduct
• Police riots in the United States
• Police use of deadly force in the United States

External linksEdit

• The Counted: Tracking people killed by police in the United States – The Guardian
• Washington Post database of police shootings, 2015-2018 – The Washington Post
• US police killings undercounted by half, study using Guardian data finds – The Guardian. 11 October 2017.
• GunMemorial searchable database