Officer Involved Shooting Statistics

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Officer involved shooting statistics. When police fire dayton oh. 19 2018 fatal police shootings of unarmed people have significantly declined experts say may 7 2018. Several scientists have taken issue with their.

According to statistics reported to the fbi 89 law enforcement officers were killed in line of duty incidents in 2019. Months after a fatal police shooting a young officer turns his gun on himself dec. The following databases include in custody deaths in addition to officer involved shootings.

In addition to factoring in the crime rates of the communities where the shootings happened the authors looked at the race of the officers involved. Sadly the trend of fatal police shootings in the united states seems to only be increasing with a total 661 civilians having been shot 123 of whom were black as of august 30 2020. Of these 48 officers died as a result of felonious acts and 41 officers.

Once our investigative process is completed we will post each incident on this site. Each officer involved shooting encounter is unique.