How many people are killed by police officers each year in the U.S.? The answer depends on the data you're using, so be sure to read up on each source's methodology.

FE: https://fatalencounters.org/methodology/ 
MPV: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/aboutthedata 
WaPo: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
According to @fatalencounters, more than 29,000 police-involved deaths occurred between 2000 and 2020 - an average of 1400 each year.

Over 6000 deaths were caused by vehicular collisions (~290 per year on average).
And keep in mind national trends disguise a lot of variation at smaller units of analysis. The Mountain division has had the highest per capita rate of non-vehicular police-involved deaths since 2016.
And keep in mind national trends disguise a lot of variation at smaller units of analysis. The Mountain division has had the highest per capita rate of non-vehicular police-involved deaths since 2016.
And keep in mind national trends disguise a lot of variation at smaller units of analysis. The Mountain division has had the highest per capita rate of non-vehicular police-involved deaths since 2016.
Vehicular deaths occur at a higher rate in the South Atlantic, and that's been the case every year since 2012, according to @fatalencounters.
This paper in @PLOSONE shows the differences in the rates of police-involved deaths across metropolitan statistical areas from 2013 to 2017: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0229686&fbclid=IwAR3XXQd0dyWis-epgraz4clk2UUrUFplu6ehbWjlE-4BpO7txPTiyJqgLcY
Mapping fatal police violence across U.S. metropolitan areas: Overall rates and racial/ethnic...

Background & methods Recent social movements have highlighted fatal police violence as an enduring public health problem in the United States. To solve it, the public requires basic information, such...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0229686&fbclid=IwAR3XXQd0dyWis-epgraz4clk2UUrUFplu6ehbWjlE-4BpO7txPTiyJqgLcY
And @PeterMoskos took a close look at city/county-level disparities last summer:
https://copinthehood.com/variations-in-police-involved-shootings-by-city-and-county/
And remember: we still have no national data on police shootings that *don't* result in death. That's a huge setback if we want to understand the individual, situational, and ecological factors associated with police *use of* deadly force. https://jnix.netlify.app/post/post2-fatality-rates/
The problems with OIS data that only capture fatalities | Justin Nix

Any time an officer purposely discharges his/her firearm at someone, deadly force has been used.

https://jnix.netlify.app/post/post2-fatality-rates/
The raw data I used to make those figures are available here, c/o Mountain West News Bureau: https://github.com/jwirfs-brock/MWNB-police-killings

And if you use Stata, here's my code, if you're interested: https://github.com/jnixy/replication-materials/tree/master/police-killings-regions
You can follow @jnixy.
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