Phoenix Police Shooting Statistics 2020. The total is a 73 increase from the 15 in 2019 but still below. In a city with slightly more women than men the victims of homicide are far more likely to be male.
In a city with slightly more women than men the victims of homicide are far more likely to be male. On May 21 2020 Ryan Whitaker was shot in the back and murdered by Phoenix Police. Perpetrators by race.
Of the 187 homicides this year 44 were domestic violence related.
This unit is responsible for the coding of crime data entered through our computerized reporting system responding to both. In June of 2019 we had nine homicides related to domestic. In the first half of 2019 in Phoenix there were 10 homicides tied to domestic violence. Arizona saw at least 52 police shootings to date in 2021 nearing all 75 known shootings in 2020 and 60 in 2019 according to The Republics data.
