‘No progress’ since George Floyd: US police killing three people a day

As Joe Biden pushes to fund the police', data from Mapping Police Violence shows high rates of deaths at the hands of law enforcement persist

Police officers in America continue to kill people at an alarming rate, according to a data analysis that has raised concerns about the Biden administration's push to expand police investments amid growing concerns about crime.

Law enforcement in the US have killed 249 people this year as of 24 March, averaging about three deaths per day and mirroring the deadly force trends of recent years, according to Mapping Police Violence, a non-profit research group. The data, experts say, suggests in the nearly two years since George Floyd's murder, the US has made little progress in preventing deaths at the hands of law enforcement, and that the 2020 promises of systemic reforms have fallen short.