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: Several non-government and crowdsourcing projects have been started to address this lack of reliable data. A study by Esposito, Lee, Edwards estimated that 1 in 2,000 men and 1 in 33,000 women die as a result of police use of deadly force. The same study estimated that the risk is highest for black men, as approximately 1 in 1,000 black men are shown to be killed by police. Studies using recent data have found that Black, Hispanic, and Native American/Alaskan individuals are disproportionately stopped by police and killed in encounters. Contents
1 Databases
1.1 Government data collection
1.2 Crowd-sourced projects to collect data
2 Frequency
3 Racial patterns
3.1 Civilian characteristics
3.2 Officer characteristics
3.3 Gender of Suspect
4 Policy
5 Legal standards
6 See also
7 References
Databases
Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not collect these data either. Consequently, no official national database exists to track such killings. This has led multiple non-governmental entities to attempt to create comprehensive databases of police shootings in the United States. The National Violent Death Reporting System is a more complete database to track police homicides than either the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) or the Centers for Disease Control 's National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). This is because both the SHR and NVSS under-report the number of police killings. Government data collection
Through the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, specifically Section 210402, the U.S. Congress mandated that the attorney general collect data on the use of excessive force by police and publish an annual report from the data.