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See also: List of killings by law enforcement officers in Germany [68] Hong Kong: Asia 1 1 0 0 0 7,392,000 1.3 2019 See also: List of killings by law enforcement officers in China [69] Portugal: Europe 1 1 0 0 0 10,290,000 1.0 2018 [70] Sweden: Europe 1 1 0 0 0 10,327,589 1.0 2019 [71] Taiwan: Asia 2 2 0 0 0 23,580,000 0.8 2018 [72] United Kingdom
Map of per capita police killings in the United States in 2018. [1]Below are lists of people killed by law enforcement in the United States, both on duty and off duty. . Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not collect the
The annual average number of justifiable homicides alone was previously estimated to be near 400. [38] Updated estimates from the Bureau of Justice Statistics released in 2015 estimate the number to be around 930 per year, or 1,240 if assuming that non-reporting local agencies kill people at the same rate as reporting agencies. [39]
deputy sheriffs among law enforcement officers killed while performing official duties (Va Code § 18.2-31(6)), effective July 1, 2010. Lethal injection was authorized by all states with capital statutes As of December 31, 2010, all 36 states with death penalty statutes authorized lethal injection as a method of execution (table 2).
A still from bodycam video, depicting the killing of 28-year-old Brandon Zachary Adame in Fort Worth, Texas. This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in January 2025, whether in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method.
This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in 2008, whether in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. The listing documents the occurrence of a death, making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or officer involved.
In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide, of which first-degree murder and felony murder [9] are the most serious, followed by second-degree murder and, in a few states, third-degree murder, which in other states is divided into voluntary manslaughter, and involuntary manslaughter such ...
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund counted 102 federal, state and local officers to have been killed in 2012. [11] The official count from the FBI is that 27 law enforcement officers were 'feloniously' killed in the line of duty in 2013 (the lowest in a 35-year period 1980–2014), and an additional 49 died in accidents (total ...