Shout out to breh for this thread: Since George Floyd's murder, police killings of Black men keep rising, including by choking
But I figured I'd remake it and touch up on a few things.
131 unarmed Black people killed by police between 2021-2025 so far based on what I counted from wikipedia, which is in the table below. This includes a summary of events for you "well what did they do?" nikkas.
But there are 156 reported based on The Washing Post's database between 2020-2024.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
(filter for Black + unarmed/undetermined/unknown) they've stopped updating the databased since December 2024.
Supposedly down from 196 for the years 2015-2019. But police killing reporting has been continually declining since 2015.
policeviolencereport.org
At least 25 states had official data collection and/or reporting requirements in effect for police use of force in 2024. But many states do not require their databases to be made publicly accessible, and even when the data is made public it’s often incomplete. For example, New York reported fewer than 30% of all police killings in 2024 due to some of the state’s largest law enforcement agencies including the NYPD not reporting cases to the state.
"Fewer fatal police shootings are recorded by the federal government every year, despite renewed scrutiny of police use of force and millions of dollars spent to encourage local law enforcement to report the data.
Even though federal records indicate that fatal shootings by police have been declining nationwide since 2015, The Washington Post’s Fatal Force database shows the opposite is true: Officers have shot and killed more people every year, reaching a record high in 2021 with 1,047 deaths. The FBI database contains only about one-third of the 7,000 fatal police shootings during this time — down from half when The Post first started tracking."
"Fatal shootings by officers in at least 2,250 police and sheriffs’ departments are missing from the past seven years of federal records, according to an analysis of the database maintained by The Post, which began tracking the killings in 2015. The excluded data has created a misleading government picture of police use of force, complicating efforts at accountability.
The incomplete data also obscures a racial discrepancy among those killed by police that is larger than the federal data suggests. Black people are fatally shot by police far more often than is evident in the FBI data, The Post has found — at more than double the rate for White people..."
"...In at least 34 states, laws require police to report crime data to the state. But most of the laws are vague about whether police shootings must be included, offering minimal accountability at the state or local level, The Post found. In California, for example, only half of departments’ fatal police shootings appear in the FBI data."
TLDR: Since the BLM + George Floyd protests, killings of Black people have been continually on the rise and have steadily become more and more unreported.
But I figured I'd remake it and touch up on a few things.
131 unarmed Black people killed by police between 2021-2025 so far based on what I counted from wikipedia, which is in the table below. This includes a summary of events for you "well what did they do?" nikkas.
But there are 156 reported based on The Washing Post's database between 2020-2024.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
(filter for Black + unarmed/undetermined/unknown) they've stopped updating the databased since December 2024.
Supposedly down from 196 for the years 2015-2019. But police killing reporting has been continually declining since 2015.
2024 Police Violence Report
Comprehensive review of killings by police in 2024.
At least 25 states had official data collection and/or reporting requirements in effect for police use of force in 2024. But many states do not require their databases to be made publicly accessible, and even when the data is made public it’s often incomplete. For example, New York reported fewer than 30% of all police killings in 2024 due to some of the state’s largest law enforcement agencies including the NYPD not reporting cases to the state.
"Fewer fatal police shootings are recorded by the federal government every year, despite renewed scrutiny of police use of force and millions of dollars spent to encourage local law enforcement to report the data.
Even though federal records indicate that fatal shootings by police have been declining nationwide since 2015, The Washington Post’s Fatal Force database shows the opposite is true: Officers have shot and killed more people every year, reaching a record high in 2021 with 1,047 deaths. The FBI database contains only about one-third of the 7,000 fatal police shootings during this time — down from half when The Post first started tracking."
"Fatal shootings by officers in at least 2,250 police and sheriffs’ departments are missing from the past seven years of federal records, according to an analysis of the database maintained by The Post, which began tracking the killings in 2015. The excluded data has created a misleading government picture of police use of force, complicating efforts at accountability.
The incomplete data also obscures a racial discrepancy among those killed by police that is larger than the federal data suggests. Black people are fatally shot by police far more often than is evident in the FBI data, The Post has found — at more than double the rate for White people..."
"...In at least 34 states, laws require police to report crime data to the state. But most of the laws are vague about whether police shootings must be included, offering minimal accountability at the state or local level, The Post found. In California, for example, only half of departments’ fatal police shootings appear in the FBI data."
TLDR: Since the BLM + George Floyd protests, killings of Black people have been continually on the rise and have steadily become more and more unreported.
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