The most recent report on interactions with police shows how extremely rare police shootings of unarmed persons are; including 23 unarmed whites and 9 unarmed blacks.
In 2020 there were over 53 million encounters by persons 16 or older with ~25 million initiated by police.
And while any excess police force is bad and we should continue to work to reduce it, the data shows that by far, police interactions do not result in the threat or use of force.
Contacts Between Police and the Public, 2020 U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, NOVEMBER 2022
