Officer Involved Shooting Statistics. 19 2018 Fatal police shootings of unarmed people. Officer training seems to over-emphasize body shots and again fails to produce accuracy results in line with depictions of police in TV and movies.
In 2020 just 19 people were shot and killed by law enforcement. A 2011 Bureau of Justice Statistics study. Shot by Chicago Police.
It would be easy to then conclude that police dont target black people they target white people.
To begin exploring this issue the Major Cities Chiefs Association MCCA first asked their members to provide the number of OIS for their agencies for the years. Click here to visit our page overviewing FAQs on Officer-Involved Shootings. The Seattle Police Department SPD Officer Involved Shooting OIS Dataset was developed expressly for research purposes. The officer-involved shooting is being handled by the Montana Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation.