Fact-check: “Over 1000 people are killed by US police every year.”
Verdict: Mostly True (82% confidence)
Multiple independent tracking databases consistently show annual counts above 1,000 people killed by US police: Mapping Police Violence recorded at least 1,365 in 2024 and at least 1,314 in 2025, and the Washington Post database — which counts only shootings — averages over 1,000 per year since 2015. The one important qualification is that official federal counts (CDC NVDRS, FBI) use narrower definitions or have coverage gaps: CDC NVDRS recorded 1,014 legal-intervention deaths in 2022 (full 50-…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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