People killed by police in the US, 2024
People who died from force used by law enforcement officers, by any means (shooting, taser, restraint, vehicle and other force), counted once per person. United States, 50 states and the District of Columbia, Calendar year 2024. Unit: people.
1,175people, 2024
Score breakdown
- Quality29.3 / 40
How well the sources are made
- Agreement1 / 30
How close the sources are to each other
- Independence16 / 20
How many separate ways the number was measured
- Freshness10 / 10
How recent the newest data is
How much each source counts
- MPV33%
- Wash. Post22%
- CDC NVSS44%
Sources
| Source | Value | Definition | Quality | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mapping Police Violence (Campaign Zero), police killings databaseCampaign Zero · Independent countRetrieved 2026-10-26 | 1,3862024 | Every case in Campaign Zero's Mapping Police Violence database with an incident date in the year: any death caused by force from an on-duty or off-duty law enforcement officer, by any means (shooting, taser, restraint, vehicle strikes whether intentional or not).Found mainly through news reports, plus public records, Fatal Encounters and Washington Post data. Counted by date of incident. CSV downloaded on 26 October 2026 from the public Airtable view linked from https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/methodology ("View the data", then "Download CSV"); 16,338 cases, counted by the year of the date field. Campaign Zero's report of 26 February 2026 gave 1,314 for 2025; cases added since bring it to 1,317. The project changed its coding framework in July 2026 (cause_of_death became use_of_force). | 3 of 5 checks
| 33% |
| The Washington Post, Fatal Force database (v2)The Washington Post · Independent countRetrieved 2026-10-26 | 1,1752024 | People shot and killed by an on-duty police officer in 2024, by date of the shooting.Deaths in custody, shootings by off-duty officers and deaths not caused by gunfire are not counted, so this covers only part of the defined number. v2 file at commit cb0fb99; its data last changed on 17 June 2025. The README says the Post tracks only killings from 2015 to 2024. The 2023 figure was 1,161 in the file of 27 June 2024 and is 1,164 now. | 4 of 5 checks
| 22% |
| CDC/NCHS National Vital Statistics System, deaths by legal interventionNational Center for Health Statistics (CDC) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-26 | 8192024 | Deaths of US residents in 2024 whose underlying cause on the death certificate is legal intervention: ICD-10 Y35 except Y35.5 (legal execution), plus Y89.0 (late effects), the codes the Lancet study used.Counted by year of death, final data. Counted from the NCHS multiple-cause-of-death public-use files mort2015us.zip to mort2024us.zip (https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Datasets/DVS/mortality/), underlying cause in positions 146-149. The counts match NCHS's Control Total Table 1 for 2023 and 2024 for every code it shows. In 2024: Y35.0 (firearm) 636, Y35.6 (other specified means) 178, other codes 5. Left out: 25 legal executions (Y35.5) and 7 deaths of foreign residents, as in NCHS tables. | 4 of 5 checks
| 44% |
- Mapping Police Violence (Campaign Zero), police killings database
- The Washington Post, Fatal Force database (v2)
- CDC/NCHS National Vital Statistics System, deaths by legal intervention
Show the data as a table
| Year | Mapping Police Violence (Campaign Zero), police killings database | The Washington Post, Fatal Force database (v2) | CDC/NCHS National Vital Statistics System, deaths by legal intervention |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,101 | 995 | 504 |
| 2016 | 1,065 | 959 | 530 |
| 2017 | 1,105 | 984 | 592 |
| 2018 | 1,154 | 992 | 596 |
| 2019 | 1,117 | 993 | 634 |
| 2020 | 1,162 | 1,021 | 763 |
| 2021 | 1,191 | 1,050 | 658 |
| 2022 | 1,269 | 1,097 | 792 |
| 2023 | 1,359 | 1,164 | 740 |
| 2024 | 1,386 | 1,175 | 819 |