Police Violence Facts

Since january 01 2015 4 728 people have died in police shootings and around half 2 385 were white.

Police violence facts. Rural urban suburban 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 0 250 500. In fact people of color were more. Police killings have decreased in cities but in suburban and rural areas. Police brutality in the united states the unwarranted or excessive and often illegal use of force against civilians by u s.

In addition 21 of victims that were black were unarmed while only 14 of white victims were unarmed. Police killed people in the first half of. 1 252 were black 877 were hispanic and 214 were from other racial groups. Debunking the lies that justify rage and riots.

1 149 according to mapping police violence a research collaborative collecting data on police killings nationwide. 2020 than they did during this period in past years. The number of people killed by police in 2014. African american people are three times more likely to be killed by a police officer than white people.

Mapping police violence which says that it is able to track more than 90 of killings in the u s defines a police killing as any time someone dies as a result of being shot beaten restrained. Even after a 4 decline from 2018 the number of deaths due to police harm in 2019 1 099 according to mapping police violence was higher than in 2014. Created with highcharts 7 2 1. Every 7 hours cops kill an american citizen.

In the united states police killed an astonishing 1 099 people in 2019. Here are 9 terrifying facts about police brutality. As a share of the. America is always just one george floyd away from erupting into chaos.

The number of people. Sadly the trend of fatal police shootings in the united states seems to only be increasing with a total 558 civilians having been shot 111 of whom were black as of july 29 2020. Police violence is changing over time.