Samuel Sinyangwe

Mapping Police Violence Official home of America's most comprehensive database of police violence. Get the facts about police brutality and how to address it.

Police in the U.S. have killed more than 670 people so far in 2025. mappingpoliceviolence.us

The Rapid Rise of Killings by Police in Rural America A 17-year-old shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy on a New Mexico highway last summer was one in a growing number of cases.

New WSJ article today uses data from the Mapping Police Violence organization to investigate the rapid rise in police violence in rural America. www.wsj.com/us-news/poli...

Republicans are about to pass the largest increase in police funding *ever* in the United States, with almost all of that funding going to ICE and agencies that partner with ICE. That’s not even including the additional funding for more incarceration/surveillance.

🚨The United States Senate is on the verge of passing a bill that spends TWICE as much $$$ on policing and incarceration as the 1994 Crime Bill. Building detention centers, enhancing surveillance, hiring more ICE agents, funding local police cooperation with mass deportations. 🚨

Mapping Police Violence Official home of America's most comprehensive database of police violence. Get the facts about police brutality and how to address it.

Police have killed more than 600 people so far in 2025. mappingpoliceviolence.us

Murder rates could hit record lows this year, but killings by police are rising Especially in red states.

Murder rates could hit record lows this year, but killings by police are rising. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Murder rates could hit record lows this year, but killings by police are rising Especially in red states.

Murder rates could hit record lows this year, but killings by police are rising. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Mapping Police Violence Official home of America's most comprehensive database of police violence. Get the facts about police brutality and how to address it.

Police in America have killed more than 560 people so far in 2025. mappingpoliceviolence.us

George W made Colin Powell lie to the UN about centrifuges and weapons of mass destruction in order to invade Iraq. Trump just casually remarks that he “thinks they’re close” to a weapon and apparently that’s enough to go to war with Iran. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more stupid…

Despite these changes, police did not report using less force *overall* and the number of people killed by police actually increased. And that’s just what the police document and disclose. The true number of cases is likely much higher than what’s reported.

Noticeable shifts in police use of force:

1) chemical spray and batons were used much more frequently in 2020, largely against protesters.

2) reported neck restraints declined rapidly in 2020 after many states banned them.

3) K-9 incidents reduced slightly over time.

Total police use of force cases reported annually by 634 police departments across 35% of the U.S. population. By type of police weapon used.
policedata.org

A report my organization Mapping Police Violence recently published at policedata.org finds most agencies with DOJ reform agreements reported reducing police use of force overall.

As Trump Abandons Police Reforms, These Local Officials Vow to Press On The Department of Justice said it’s pulling back from policing changes. Will cities and states have the tools to enforce them?

The Trump administration is abandoning DOJ police reform efforts in 8 locations, including Minneapolis and Louisville. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/05/24/t...

you are nearly two times more likely to be killed by a cop in states that voted republican in the last three presidential elections, compared to states that voted democrat

As a result of these trends, police killings rates in Red states are now nearly twice as high as the rates in Blue states.

This suggests increasing political polarization of police violence. Police killings were already increasing in more conservative states before George Floyd. But the backlash may have accelerated this trend - while reforms weren’t impactful/transformative enough to offset these increases overall.

Among Red states, police killings rates increased the most in states did not enact police reform/accountability laws. The 30 states that passed post-Floyd police reform laws reduced killings by 6%, the remaining 20 states increased killings by 21%. 18 of these 20 states voted Trump in 2024.

A New Crackdown on Ballot Initiatives Unnerves Florida Organizers - Bolts The new Republican law threatens volunteers with more investigations and criminal punishment, even as Ron DeSantis faces allegations of illegally meddling in ballot measures.

Since Florida passed a law cracking down on ballot initiatives last month, organizers say the number of petitions they've been able to collect a week has dropped by 80%: www.wusf.org/courts-law/2...

Bolts reported on how extreme the law is here: boltsmag.org/florida-new-...

New article based on data from my organization Mapping Police Violence shows police killings have surged in Red states. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows Flock, which has license plate readers (LPRs) all around the country, wants police to be able to “jump from LPR to person,” according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media.

Another private surveillance vendor accessing data from commercial sources and data breaches and packaging it for law enforcement. In this case, the distributed nature of the license plater reader cameras is especially concerning

www.404media.co/license-plat...

Mapping Police Violence Official home of America's most comprehensive database of police violence. Get the facts about police brutality and how to address it.

Police in the U.S. have killed more than 400 people so far this year. mappingpoliceviolence.us

Researchers estimate 219,000 people will die because of DOGE cuts, including 148,000 children. All to save the average American taxpayer $150. www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

The Trump administration put an apartheid billionaire in control of US government spending and he is now *literally* going line-by-line cancelling billions of *our own tax dollars* from being given to Black and Brown businesses and communities across the US. This is a white supremacist dictatorship.

Your tax dollars will pass through a South African billionaire who has already accumulated more money *for himself* than any other human being alive. And you’re not really going to know what he does with your money, until it’s too late.

Police Data The largest police use of force database in America. Built by the Mapping Police Violence organization. Get the facts. Make the case for change.

An additional 300+ people die in police vehicle pursuits/crashes and 300,000+ people are impacted by non-fatal police use of force each year. Our organization Mapping Police Violence has tracked more than 1,000,000 cases of police violence to date at policedata.org

Police killed more people this year than any other year on record, killing 3.4 people per day nationwide. mappingpoliceviolence.us

Mapping Police Violence Mapping Police Violence collects comprehensive data on police killings nationwide to make the case for change.

Police in America have killed at least 363 people this year, continuing to kill an average of 3 people each day. mappingpoliceviolence.us

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