Officer Involved Shooting Statistics. In New York City in the early 1970s police officers killed an average of 72 people per year including a whopping 93 in 1971 alone. Officer training seems to over-emphasize body shots and again fails to produce accuracy results in line with depictions of police in TV and movies.
Of these 55 officers died as a. San Diego Stolen Lives Database 1980-Present. Several high-profile officer involved shootings OIS in 2014 and 2015 stimulated a national debate and exposed the absence of reliable national data on police use of deadly force.
According to statistics reported to the FBI 106 law enforcement officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2018.
A 2011 Bureau of Justice Statistics study. For example the statistics for the year ending 2019 will be updated in February 2020. The four boxes to the right of the Initial Call Type chart provide aggregated statistics for all selected officer involved shooting events. Estimated that police in the United States make 63 million face-to-face contacts with the public.
