Lists of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States

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.

[6] 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.

The database can be viewed by state, gender, race/ethnicity, age, classification (e.g., "gunshot"), and whether the person killed was armed.

[8] The database can also classify people in various categories including race, age, weapon etc.

The listing documents the occurrence of a death, without any investigation or elaboration into the department or making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person(s) killed or officer(s) involved.

Map of per capita police killings in the United States in 2018. [ 1 ]
Deaths by age group in 2015, according to The Counted
A New York Times study reported how outcomes of active shooter attacks varied with actions of the attacker, the police (42% of total incidents), and bystanders (including a " good guy with a gun " outcome in 5.1% of total incidents). [ 3 ]