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truthout: Report: US Police Killed Someone Every 6.5 Hours on Average in 2024
truthout - Report: US Police Killed Someone Every 6.5 Hours on Average in 2024
Police killings hit a record high last year, with Black and Indigenous people disproportionately targeted.
By Sharon Zhang , Truthout
February 27, 2025
Police killed over a thousand people in the U.S. in 2024, new data reveals — the deadliest year on record, with data showing that police killings are on the rise.
According to a report by Mapping Police Violence, police killed at least 1,365 people in 2024, making it the deadliest year since the group began recording such data in 2013.
This marks a 0.3 percent increase in the rate of killings from 2023, with police killing four out of every million people in the U.S. last year, at a rate of roughly 3.7 people per day. This means that police killed someone once every 6 and a half hours on average.
Black and Indigenous people are disproportionately targeted by police violence, the report finds, with both groups roughly 3 times more likely to be killed by police than white people in 2024.
There were only 10 days in 2024 that no one in the U.S. was killed by police, researchers observed. However, the report notes that it’s possible there were killings that were not publicly reported and therefore are missing from the data.
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Police killings hit a record high last year, with Black and Indigenous people disproportionately targeted.
By Sharon Zhang , Truthout
February 27, 2025
Police killed over a thousand people in the U.S. in 2024, new data reveals — the deadliest year on record, with data showing that police killings are on the rise.
According to a report by Mapping Police Violence, police killed at least 1,365 people in 2024, making it the deadliest year since the group began recording such data in 2013.
This marks a 0.3 percent increase in the rate of killings from 2023, with police killing four out of every million people in the U.S. last year, at a rate of roughly 3.7 people per day. This means that police killed someone once every 6 and a half hours on average.
Black and Indigenous people are disproportionately targeted by police violence, the report finds, with both groups roughly 3 times more likely to be killed by police than white people in 2024.
There were only 10 days in 2024 that no one in the U.S. was killed by police, researchers observed. However, the report notes that it’s possible there were killings that were not publicly reported and therefore are missing from the data.
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