Title: US Police Fatally Shoot About 1,000 a Year Since 2015: Washington Post
Headings: US police have fatally shot nearly 1,000 people a year since police-brutality protests erupted, Washington Post finds
US police have fatally shot nearly 1,000 people a year since police-brutality protests erupted, Washington Post finds
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Police officers and protesters in Philadelphia on June 1.
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Police officers and protesters in Philadelphia on June 1. AP Photo/Matt Slocum
A Washington Post tally found that police officers in the US had fatally shot nearly 1,000 people a year since 2015. The Post says this year seems to be on a similar pace, with 463 people killed in police shootings so far. Most of the people were armed, and about half were white, but The Post did find that Black people had been killed at disproportionate rates. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. US police officers have fatally shot roughly 1,000 people a year for the past half a decade despite promises for reform, The Washington Post said Monday, citing a tally it had been keeping since 2015. The Post said it began keeping track of fatal police shootings in 2015 amid a wave of protests against police brutality that year. Its final count was 994, a number it said was "twice as many as ever documented in one year by the federal government." But similar numbers were repeated year after year. Here are The Post's numbers: