How many people does the US police kill and with what causes
The Washington Post counted 1,096 people killed by police in the United States in 2022.
In previous years, about as many people — about 1,000 a year — have died this way.
As Katharina Buchholz of Statista shows in the infographic below, most of those killed by police were male and armed…
While the race of more than a third of those killed by police in 2022 is not known, 389 of the deceased were white, while 224 were black.
This equates to 52% and 30%, respectively, of people whose race is known. The percentage of blacks is high, considering that only 14% of Americans belong to this racial group.
About 58% of those killed by the police carried a weapon with them.
But in the case of more than 180 people, they were unarmed or it is not known if they had a weapon. In 17 cases, the deceased was seen with a replica weapon that was mistaken for the real thing.
Of the 1,096 people killed, 138 showed signs of mental illness. The police applied a drastic and definitive cure.
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