- The Los Angeles Police Department ranks first with 199 civilian deaths caused by police between 2013 and 2025.
- Two Texas cities make the top 10: Houston is third, while San Antonio is fifth.
- Phoenix, Arizona, and New York are second and fourth, respectively.
A new study reveals that the Los Angeles Police Department reports the most police violence.
The study, conducted by accident and injury lawyers Gammill Law, analyzed data from Mapping Police Violence, using the official police use of force collection programs, combined with The Gun Violence Archive and the Fatal Encounters data. Researchers ranked the top 100 largest US Police Departments by population coverage, based on the number of people killed by the police between 2013 and 2025.
The Los Angeles Police Department, California, ranks first with 199 deaths between 2013 and 2025, which is six times higher than the national average of 33 people killed by police. Los Angeles has seen an average of over 70,000 arrests per year during that same timeframe, 3.6 times higher than the national average of 19,000…