Use the data on this page to hold Police Chiefs and Mayors accountable for ending police violence in your city. The charts below use data from 2013-2024 to show which police departments are most - and least - likely to kill people. You can also compare police departments operating in jurisdictions with similar levels of crime to show that, even under similar circumstances, some police departments are much more likely to kill people than others. And after you've explored this tool, click here to learn about police violence in your state.
Key Findings:
24% of U.S. police killings between January 2013 - December 2023 were committed by police departments of the 100 largest U.S. cities.
Black people were 39% of people killed by these 100 police departments (where race has been able to be identified) despite being only 19% of the population in these jurisdictions.
Only 1 of the 100 largest city police departments did not kill anyone from Jan 2013 - Dec 2023 (Irvine PD, CA).
43% of unarmed people killed by the 100 largest city police departments were Black. White people were 24% of the unarmed people killed by police in these cities.
Albuquerque, St. Louis, Tulsa and Phoenix police kill people at the highest rates per population among US major cities. Urgent interventions are needed in these cities to stop this violence.
Rates of police killings were calculated using police killings data from Mapping Police Violence, along with US Census population data by race and crime data from the FBI Uniform Crime Reports. Police departments included in this analysis reflect the police forces of the 100 largest U.S. cities.