US police use force on 300,000 people a year, with numbers rising since George Floyd: ‘relentless violence’

Exclusive: groundbreaking Mapping Police Violence data estimates scale of physical force and civilian injuries

Police in the US use force on at least 300,000 people each year, injuring an estimated 100,000 of them, according to a groundbreaking data analysis on law enforcement encounters.

Mapping Police Violence, a non-profit research group that tracks killings by US police, launched a new database on Wednesday cataloging non-fatal incidents of police use of force, including stun guns, chemical sprays, K9 dog attacks, neck restraints, beanbags and baton strikes.