People shot to death by U.S. police, by race 2017-2021
Published by Statista Research Department, Jul 1, 2021
Sadly, the trend of fatal police shootings in the United States seems to only be increasing, with a total 440 civilians having been shot, 74 of whom were Black, in the first six months of 2021. In 2020, there were 1,021 fatal police shootings, and in 2019 there were 999 fatal shootings. Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings .. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123070/police-shootings-rate-ethnicity-us/ .. among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 36 fatal shootings per million of the population as of June 2021.