Washington Post Fatal Force Database
Starting in 2015, the Washington Post compiled a record of every fatal shooting by an on-duty police officer in the United States. The resulting dataset covers 10,430 incidents through 2024.
This is a searchable interface to that public dataset. Each record includes date, location, demographics, armed status, and whether a body camera was present. All data is from the Post's published GitHub repository. Verbatim does not editorialize.
About this dataset
The Washington Post's database includes every fatal shooting by a police officer in the line of duty since Jan. 1, 2015. It does not include deaths in police custody, fatal shootings by off-duty officers, or non-shooting deaths.
The data is compiled from news reports, law enforcement websites, social media, and independent databases such as Fatal Encounters and the Killed by Police project. The Post stopped updating in January 2025.
Race codes: W = White, B = Black, H = Hispanic, A = Asian, N = Native American, O = Other.
| Date | Name | Age | Race | City, State | Armed | Flee | Camera |
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