New data from the LAPD shows the number of shootings involving police officers has continued to rise in the second half of 2025, with at least 43 shootings representing a 60% increase — compared with last year.
According to an LAPD crime data summary circulated late last week, as of Nov. 29, 2025, officers had fired their guns in 40 incidents, compared with 26 shootings during the same period in 2024.
Officers shot three more people in three separate incidents in the first week of December, including during an early-morning confrontation in Reseda Monday, in which the LAPD said officers shot a man who fired at them near a convenience store…