Dads Against Police brutality & Moms Against Police brutality

• In 2025, U.S. police killed 1,202 people, and in 2024 the number peaked at about 1,260–1,270, averaging more than three deaths per day,

• Black Americans were killed at nearly three times the rate of white Americans.

• 94% of those killed in 2025 were male.

• Highest risk group: 30-44 years old (41%).

• About 1 in 5 victims showed signs of mental illness.

For purposes of comparison, in England and Wales, with a population of approximately 60 million, only 2 people were fatally shot in 2024-2025. In fact, U.S. police kill more people than every other developed nation. Per 10 million people, the U.S. sees 33 fatal police shootings a year as compared to 10 in Canada, 4 in France and 2 per 10 million in Germany.

Gunshots cause 94% of police fatalities in the US. Approximately 11% of those killed were entirely unarmed, 29% were fleeing, and 20% exhibited signs of mental illness during the interaction.

Studies demonstrate that police are much more likely to shoot unarmed African American men than unarmed white men. Criminal prosecution of police officers for on-duty killings or misconduct is exceedingly rare in the United States. In fact, estimates demonstrate it is less than 1%.

Since 2005, of the approximately 22,000 fatal police shootings, only about 35 officers have been convicted of a crime and most often, a lessor crime than murder. Only 3 officers have had a murder conviction stand over that period.

The evidence is clear. Better training equates to less incidents of police on civilian violence and fewer days off by police officers for on-the-job related injuries indicating police are safer.

One study in conducted provided 2000 Chicago police officers with four 4-hour training sessions. The results of 16 hours of training as opposed to the officers that did not receive the training revealed:

• 23% reduction in use of force in the four months following the instruction

• 23% drop in discretionary arrests

• officer absence do to injury dropped from an average of 1.8 days per month to 0.6.

Officer training focuses on tactical skills such as firearms and self-defense often creating a fear-based response in stressful situations with a lack of training for alternative and often more appropriate and safer

police responses.

Ironically, the least amount of training police officers are provided is in the area which presents the greatest an officer's mortality: suicide. Police officer suicides exceed the number of officers killed by as much as three or four times.