The trend of fatal police shootings in the United States seems to only be increasing, with a total 654 civilians having been shot, 111 of whom were Black, as of September 2021. In 2020, there were 1,021 fatal police shootings, and in 2019 there were 999 fatal shootings.
Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 37 fatal shootings per million of the population as of September 2021.
Police brutality in the U.S.
In recent years, particularly since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, police brutality has become a hot button issue in the United States.