- cross-posted to:
- politicalexiles@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politicalexiles@lemmy.world
- In 2023, police in the U.S. Killed over 1,300 people, marking a steady increase in police killings, as reported by Mapping Police Violence.
- There were only 14 days without a police killing, and on average, a person was killed by law enforcement every 6.6 hours.
- While the number of people killed by gunfire and officers killed in the line of duty declined, this data highlights the need for significant changes in policing in the country.
I don’t have the info to clarify this either way, but the data Ive shared isn’t only “directly killed by police action” but includes suicide and other deaths related to police contact but not necessarily directly caused by police
e. interpreting the US statistics as “directly killed by police, with their hands” then I would count only “fatal shootings” and possibly “deaths in and following police custody”.
Here’s another slice of UK people killed by shootings https://www.statista.com/statistics/319246/police-fatal-shootings-england-wales/
2023 there were 3 police shootings resulting in death
In USA there were 1153 fatal shootings by police
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
There’s an “other” category for the UK link. Since “in police custody” seems to be for unattributed deaths, I’m assuming “other” is for attributed murder that isn’t shootings.