Police Shootings Tracker

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Every on-duty fatal police shooting in the United States — a rebuild of the Washington Post Fatal Force record (through Dec. 31, 2024), with 2025–2026 incidents drawn from Wikipedia and maintained by hand going forward.

Preserved here as a living public record.

The ABCs of ACAB

03 — Distribution

04 — Filter

Search State Year Race Gender Armed with Threat Fleeing Min age Max age

05 — By year

20152026

Date	Name	Age	Gender	Race	Location	Armed	Threat	Department	Flags

About this data

This is a faithful rebuild of The Washington Post’s Fatal Force database, which recorded every person shot and killed by an on-duty police officer in the United States through December 31, 2024. Incidents from 2025 onward are drawn from Wikipedia’s monthly “list of killings by law enforcement” pages and manual entries, and are updated on a rolling basis.

Washington Post: official v2 dataset — death records and involved agencies through 2024 (GitHub)
Wikipedia: 2025–2026 fatal police shootings parsed from English Wikipedia monthly lists (e.g. 2025, 2026)
Scope: fatal shootings by on-duty police only. Other weapons (e.g. a Taser) may have been involved in the encounter, but the manner of death is always a police shooting.
Manual entries: corrections and new incidents can be added via the editor and survive the daily re-sync.

Race codes: W = White, B = Black, H = Hispanic, A = Asian, N = Native American, O = Other (multiple values possible)
Armed with: per NIBRS federal classifications — gun, knife, blunt object, vehicle, replica, other, unarmed, undetermined, unknown
Department: the law-enforcement agency (or agencies) involved, joined from the Post’s agencies dataset

Methodology: WaPo Fatal Force · Dataset · The ABCs of ACAB