Police kIllings by America's largest police departments

image credit: MappingPoliceViolence

image credit: MappingPoliceViolence

Black people were more likely to be killed by America's largest city police departments:

• Police departments disproportionately killed black people, who were 41% of victims despite being only 20% of the population living in these cities.

• 41 of the 60 police departments disproportionately killed black people relative to the population of black people in their jurisdiction.

• 14 police departments killed black people exclusively in 2015, 100% of the people they killed were black. Only 5 police departments were 100% of those killed white.

59 of the nation's largest 60 city police departments killed civilians in 2015. Some killed at much higher rates than others:

• Bakersfield, Oklahoma City, Oakland, Indianapolis Metropolitan, Long Beach, New Orleans, St. Louis Metropolitan, and San Francisco Police Departments killed people at the highest rates in 2015.

• Rates of police killings differed sharply among police departments. For example, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department killed over 7x more people per capita in 2015 than did Philadelphia Police Department.

• Of the 60 police departments reviewed, only Riverside Police Department did not kill anyone in 2015.