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Canada: Americas 69 37,060,000 18.6 2022 See also: List of killings by law enforcement officers in Canada [46] Luxembourg: Europe 1 1 0 0 0 590,321 16.9 2018 [47] India: Asia 1,731 125 1606 1,380,000,000 12.54 2019 "Other" lists killings while in judicial custody. Official numbers are considerably lower.
Pryce, a black man, was shot by police in a standoff where he was armed with a pellet gun. This occurred after fleeing from officers when they attempted to arrest him for an outstanding warrant. [175] Pryce suffered from schizophrenia. [176] 2013-11-17 Unknown (22) Ontario Man shot by police after pointing a pellet gun at them. [177] 2013-12-03
This is a list of countries by firearm-related homicide rate per 100,000 population by year. Homicide figures may include justifiable homicides along with criminal homicides, depending upon jurisdiction and reporting standards. Not included are accidental deaths, or justifiable deaths by any means other than by firearm.
The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.
Canada's national police force is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) which is the main police force in Canada's north, and in rural areas except in Quebec, Ontario, and Newfoundland. Those three provinces have their own provincial police forces, although the RCMP still operate throughout rural Newfoundland and also provide specific ...
The Australian police forces are monitored by the Australian Institute of Criminology, which has recorded police shooting deaths since 1989. All fatal police shootings are subject to a mandatory coronial inquest. [4] A 2013 review by the Australian Institute of Criminology found that 42% of victims of fatal police shootings had a mental illness ...
This is a list of events in Canada and its predecessors that are commonly characterized as massacres. Massacre is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers"; it also states that the term is used "in the names of certain massacres of history".
Washington Post collects “only those shootings in which a police officer, in the line of duty, shot and killed a civilian.” “In 2015, The Post began tracking more than a dozen details about each killing — including the race of the deceased, the circumstances of the shooting, whether the person was armed and whether the victim was ...