Title: US police shootings: How many die each year? - BBC News
Headings: US police shootings: How many die each year?
US police shootings: How many die each year?
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Content: This attack came just 10 days after five police officers were killed in Dallas. Both events were revenge attacks for the killing of young black men by police. The bloodshed has shocked the US, leading President Barack Obama to call for calm. But how many police officers are killed in the US in a normal year? And how many people are killed by police? Police killed
"There's a widespread perception in the American public, and particularly within law enforcement, that officers are more threatened, more endangered, more often assaulted, and more often killed than they have been historically," says Seth Stoughton, a law professor at the University of Southern Carolina and former policeman. "I think it's a very strong perception. People truly believe it. But factually, looking at the numbers, it's not accurate," he says. FBI data on police officers "feloniously killed" - killed as a result of a criminal act - indicates that the numbers have been falling, he says.