How Many Police Officers Are Shot Each Year
For the past five years police have shot nearly 1 000 people per year.
How many police officers are shot each year. Out of all states georgia had the highest number of police officer deaths in 2018 with five followed by florida and california with four each. That year the washington post began tallying how many people were shot and killed by police. The analysis relies on data from the gun violence archive a nonprofit that tracks shootings through media and police reports.
During the study period 1 467 local and state law enforcement officers were shot in 1 185 incidents 249 of which were fatal. That works out to on average 245 officers shot per year 42 of them fatally. By the end of 2015 officers had fatally shot nearly 1 000 people twice as many as ever documented in.
Seven of the u s. Officers killed this year were ambushed according to the fbi data including mcallen texas police officers edelmiro garza 45 and ismael chavez 39 who died on july 11 when.