Men and women killed by police.
According to a Guardian investigation, police have killed 547 people in the United States as of the end of June. This is an average of three people a day. More than 20 percent
of those people were unarmed.
In total, 478 of those people were shot and killed, while 31 died after being shocked by a Taser, 16 died after being struck by police vehicles, and 19 – including 25-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore – have died after altercations in police custody.
When adjusted to accurately reflect the US population, the totals indicate that black people are being killed by police at more than twice the rate of white and Hispanic or Latino people. Black people killed by police were also significantly more likely to have been unarmed.
The United States government does not keep comprehensive data of citizens who are killed by police. However, the Guardian's "The Counted" project has been tracking American deaths by police that have occurred since the beginning of the year. You can see the detailed, important work they are doing
here.
Since the Guardian has only been tracking this information since January, and additionally the 2015 year is only half over, it's difficult to determine how this compares to other years.
Over a period spanning from 2003 to 2009 and 2011, the FBI counted 383 such homicides as an annual average. The actual average, as estimated by a March study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics which even that agency’s accountability researchers admit is incomplete, was 928.
There is a lot more data broken down in
the Guardian's article and
the Counted site.