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According to the Washington Post, police officers have killed 262 people so far this year. Today is the 102nd day of the year.
Of the 262 people killed by police, 109 were White. That's 41.6%. But White people represent about 73% of the US population. So math tells us non-White people are over-represented among those killed.
Police killed 36 Black people per million, but only 15 White people per million. Hispanic people were killed at the rate of 27 per million. (Other is 5 per million.) This is from the Washington Post.
You can see that young people are the primary victims of police killings.
That last chart and the rates of killing per million were for the years 2015 to the present, by the way.
So far this year, 246 men and 16 women have been killed by police.
Of the police killings so far this year, body cameras recorded only 47 of the incidents. That means 82% of the mean, the police aren't wearing body cams or they're switched off.
Six of the people killed by police had toy weapons. At least 10 were completely unarmed. 41 had a knife. And 157 of the victims were said to have a gun.
The states with the highest rates of police killings in the past few years are New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma.
Of the 262 people killed so far this year by police, 29 were attempting to flee by car, 48 were fleeing on foot. Those people were shot *while going away from police officers*.
Over the past few years (2015 to the present), police shoot and kill about 1,000 people per year. That's about three people per day. Every day.
If you want to look at the data yourself, perhaps to see how many people have been shot and killed by police in your state, check here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
This database is critical, because FBI reports undercount fatal police shootings by half, since police departments choose not to report their killings. They're not required to do so. So the most accurate picture is from media, not government.
Also, Wikipedia tracks police fatal shootings. Here are those killed by police in the month of April 2021. (It's the 12th as I post this.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States,_April_2021
