breadsmasher , 5 months ago

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/