Compared to police in other wealthy democracies, American police kill civilians at incredibly high rates:. The chart above compares the annual rates of police killings in each country, accounting for differences in population size. This is the most apples-to-apples comparison we can make with this data.
The sources for these charts are listed in the table below. For more statistics on police, arrests, and incarceration in the United States, see these other pages:. The data here reflect the number of police killings of civilians reported in each country. They do not account for the manner of death, as that data was not available for every country. The rates account for population only; they do not reflect differences in police-public contact rates nor the rate of gun ownership in each country, nor any other point of comparison that might partially explain these differences.
The statistics presented here can only illuminate the vast differences between policing in the U. Police disproportionately target Black and other marginalized people in stops, arrests, and use of force; and are increasingly called upon to respond to problems, such as homelessness, that are unrelated to public safety.
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Californians share national concerns about community-police relationships. In , there were about , federal agents not counting federal prison guards and 57, full-time officers in special state and local agencies.
Together with general purpose police, there were , full-time sworn law enforcement officers at all levels of government in For way more than you wanted to know about US policing and law enforcement statistics, read on. The first is the Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies CSLLEA , which is a complete census of every state and local police agency in the country with at least one full-time employee , conducted every four years since This is comprehensive, high-quality data — unfortunately, the last time it was conducted was , so its figures are at least a decade old.
It is so neglected that even BJS statisticians overlooked it in their own report on sources of police officer data. The survey uses a large sample of state and local agencies to estimate nationwide trends in demographics and policies for US police departments. It stretches from to , and it is typically conducted every few years. The upshot of that is that we can be pretty confident in the LEMAS estimates, too — which is good, because that is the only recent, methodologically consistent nationwide estimate for police officers.
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