Over 730 lives lost in US police encounters in just 7 months

The police in the United States have been involved in the deaths of 739 individuals since the beginning of 2024, Report informs via mappingpoliceviolence.us.

This indicates that in the first seven months of the year, there were only nine days without a fatal police encounter.

In 2023, police killed at least 1,247 people. Black individuals made up 27% of those killed by police, despite representing only 13% of the population. The year 2023 marked the highest number of police killings in the past decade, and the trend seems to be continuing in 2024.

Between 2013 and 2023, 98.1% of police killings did not result in prosecution. In 2023, New Mexico had the highest number of police killings. Since 2013, police have killed approximately 13,000 people in total.