Title: Police use of deadly force in the United States - Wikipedia
Headings: Police use of deadly force in the United States
Police use of deadly force in the United States
Contents
Databases
Government data collection
Crowd-sourced projects to collect data
Frequency
Racial patterns
Civilian characteristics
Officer characteristics
Gender of Suspect
Policy
Legal standards
See also
References

Content: Another project, the Facebook page "Killed by Police" (or web-page www.KilledbyPolice.net) tracks killings starting May 1, 2013. In 2015, CopCrisis used the KilledByPolice.net data to generate info-graphics about police killings. A project affiliated with Black Lives Matter, Mapping Police Violence, tracks killings starting January 1, 2013, and conducts analyses and visualizations examining rates of killings by police department, city, state, and national trends over time. The National Police Misconduct Reporting Project started in 2009 by David Packman, is now owned and operated by the Cato Institute. It covers a range of police behaviors. The most recent addition is The Puppycide Database Project, which collects information about police use of lethal force against animals, as well as people killed while defending their animals from police, or unintentionally while police were trying to kill animals. Frequency
Deaths by age group in 2015, according to The Counted
The annual average number of justifiable homicides alone was previously estimated to be near 400. Updated estimates from the Bureau of Justice Statistics released in 2015 estimate the number to be around 930 per year, or 1,240 if assuming that non-reporting local agencies kill people at the same rate as reporting agencies. A 2019 study by Esposito, Lee, and Edwards states that police killings are a leading cause of death for men aged 25-29 at 1.8 per 100000, trailing causes such as accidental death (76.6 per 100000), suicide (26.7 per 100000), and other homicides (22.0 per 100000). Around 2015–2016, The Guardian newspaper ran its own database, The Counted, which tracked US killings by police and other law enforcement agencies including from gunshots, tasers, car accidents and custody deaths.