Map of The 10,429 Fatal Police Shootings Between 2015 & 2024

Map created by Reddit user u/feeeeshieThe map above shows the number of people per 100,000 who were shot and killed by Police officers between 2015 and 2024 per year.

The data comes primarily from the Washington Post’s Police Shootings Database.

They recorded that: “10,429 people have been shot and killed by police from 2015 to 2024.”

Below you can see the rate by county, followed by a full list of names and locations:

Here are the totals by state including rate per 100k:

State	Total Number of Fatal Shootings	Average Per Year	Rate Per 100k People Per Year
New Mexico	219	21.9	1.03
Alaska	69	6.9	0.92
Oklahoma	266	26.6	0.66
Colorado	375	37.5	0.65
Arizona	461	46.1	0.64
Montana	69	6.9	0.63
Wyoming	36	3.6	0.62
Nevada	171	17.1	0.55
West Virginia	100	10	0.54
Idaho	90	9	0.5
Arkansas	143	14.3	0.48
Mississippi	139	13.9	0.47
Louisiana	200	20	0.43
District of Columbia	30	3	0.43
Tennessee	293	29.3	0.42
Kentucky	179	17.9	0.41
Missouri	263	26.3	0.41
Oregon	166	16.6	0.41
Alabama	200	20	0.4
South Dakota	35	3.5	0.4
Utah	133	13.3	0.39
North Dakota	27	2.7	0.38
Georgia	393	39.3	0.36
California	1405	140.5	0.36
Maine	49	4.9	0.36
Washington	277	27.7	0.35
Texas	1010	101	0.34
South Carolina	171	17.1	0.33
Kansas	99	9.9	0.33
Indiana	214	21.4	0.31
Hawaii	47	4.7	0.31
Florida	672	67.2	0.3
North Carolina	310	31	0.29
Wisconsin	163	16.3	0.28
Nebraska	49	4.9	0.26
New Hampshire	33	3.3	0.26
Ohio	305	30.5	0.26
Vermont	15	1.5	0.24
Virginia	199	19.9	0.23
Maryland	129	12.9	0.21
Delaware	22	2.2	0.21
Iowa	63	6.3	0.19
Michigan	187	18.7	0.19
Minnesota	107	10.7	0.18
Pennsylvania	227	22.7	0.17
Illinois	212	21.2	0.17
New Jersey	108	10.8	0.12
New York	199	19.9	0.1
Connecticut	32	3.2	0.09
Massachusetts	61	6.1	0.09
Rhode Island	8	0.8	0.07

For a full list of names and ages see the full database here.

About the Database:

The Washington Post’s database contains records of every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty between Jan. 1, 2015 and Dec. 31, 2024.

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 person was experiencing a mental health crisis — by culling local news reports, law enforcement websites and social media, and by monitoring independent databases such as Killed by Police and Fatal Encounters. The Post conducted additional reporting in many cases.

The Post supplemented this database in 2022 by publishing police agency names and appending each agency’s unique federal identifying code. This work involved some manual cleanup. Agencies with multiple offices — such as state police departments and federal law enforcement agencies — were often combined into one code for ease of comparison against other full departments.

The Post is documenting only those shootings in which a police officer in the line of duty, shoots and kills a civilian — the circumstances that most closely parallel the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., which began the protest movement culminating in Black Lives Matter and an increased focus on police accountability nationwide. The Post is not tracking deaths of people in police custody, fatal shootings by off-duty officers or non-shooting deaths.

The FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention log fatal shootings by police, but officials acknowledge that their data is incomplete. Since 2015, The Post documented more than twice as many fatal shootings by police as recorded on average annually by these agencies.

The Post’s database is updated as facts emerge about individual cases. The Post seeks to make the database as comprehensive as possible. To provide information about fatal police shootings between Jan. 1, 2015, and Dec. 31, 2024, send us an email at policeshootingsfeedback@washpost.com.

For a full data dictionary and methodology on the data collection, see here.

Originally published May 30, 2015. Re-released with department data on Dec. 5, 2022.

Credits

Research and Reporting: Hayden Godfrey, Steven Rich and Andrew Ba Tran.

Design and development: Chris Alcantara, Katlyn Alo, Emma Baker, Aaron Brezel, Armand Emamdjomeh, Jake Kara, Paige Moody, James O’Toole and Leslie Shapiro.

Editing: David Fallis, Reuben Fischer-Baum, Meghan Hoyer, Courtney Kan and Angela Mecca.

Past contributors: Keith L. Alexander, Sophie Andrews, Jason Bartz, Amy Brittain, Swetabh Changkakoti, Sarah Childress, Susan Doyle, Hong Sen Du, Kennedy Elliot, Linda Epstein, Holden Foreman, Joe Fox, Wendy Galietta, Kaeti Hinck, Jennifer Jenkins, Laris Karklis, Kimberly Kindy, Whitney Leaming, Emily Liu, Wesley Lowery, Monika Mathur, Ted Mellnik, Lori Montgomery, Deblina Mukherjee, John Muyskens, Razzan Nakhlawi, Erik Reyna, Danielle Rindler, Kavya Sukumar, John Sullivan, Julie Tate, Susan Tyler, Divya Verma, Aaron Williams and the students of the American University Investigative Practicum, including Dima Amro, Daniela Lobo, Siddhi Mahatole, Mirika Rayaprolu and Madeleine Sherer.