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Every year, police in America shoot and kill more than 1,000 people.
Everytown Research analysis of 2018 to 2022 Mapping Police Violence data (accessed February 22, 2023).
Last updated: 2.22.2023
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1 in 3 Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people know or care about someone who was killed with a gun.
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Police are twice as likely to threaten or use physical force during encounters with Latinx people than with white people.
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67 percent of known trans homicide victims who were killed with a gun were Black women.
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American Indian/Alaskan Native women are three times more likely than white women to be fatally shot by an intimate partner.
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