Death by Cop

In 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control, 140 blacks were killed by police. That same year, 386 whites were killed by police. Over the 13-year period from 1999 to 2011, 2,151 whites and 1,130 blacks were killed by police. So 34.45% of deaths by police action were Black. Blacks make up 13.2% of the U.S. population.

In 1968, shootings by law enforcement were the cause of death for 8.6 out of every million blacks. For whites, the rate was was 0.9 deaths per million.
By 2011, law enforcement shootings caused 2.74 deaths for every million blacks, and 1.28 deaths for every million whites. While the death-by-police rate for whites has held pretty steady over the last 45 years at about the one-in-a-million level, the rate for blacks has fallen. In the last several decades the numbers of blacks killed by cops are down nearly 75%.

Excluding practice on the gun range, 95% of officers — including those in big-city departments — have never discharged their firearm in the line of duty. 

 

In 2014, 114 police were killed in the line of duty. The average age was 40. 110 were male, 4 female, and the average time of service was 12 years, 6 months.