And what does that information tell us?

I genuinely have no idea what to do with it, it says nothing about the total numbers and it's too aggregated to see patterns.

The numbers are bad in comparison but those are still terrible numbers to begin with

I admit, I thought those numbers would be lower. Even 2022, there was actually about 1 day a month when cops didn't kill anyone across the whole USA? I seriously thought it would be a string of zeroes.

Not (totally) because of, let's call it "policing issues", but simply because the US is a very large population country with its share of both criminals and cops, and an abundant supply of deadly weapons.

That it is *NOT* just 0, 0, 0, 0, 0... is, in itself, pretty interesting.

It would be neat to see this side-by-side with, say, the EU which is similar in area and population to the USA. As an isolated thing, it doesn't say much. There's not enough depth in time to draw many conclusions. There's no breakdown of who was killed, or what the reasoning was, both of which could also lead to conclusions. If it was compared against a similar landmass+population, *that* comparison might lead to conclusions.

As it is, it's interesting... like the future answer to a trivia question somewhere.

Use the database made for the people from the people. Its called fatal force.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

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What's the US population? How many crimes occur per year in the US?

330+ million people. Even more guns. Good score imo