By Los Angeles Times Staff

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Since 2001, at least 946 people have been killed by law enforcement in Los Angeles County, according to homicide records from the county medical examiner-coroner. The Times has compiled them all into this database, which will update with the latest cases.

Almost all of the dead were men, nearly 80% were Black or Latino. More than 97% were shot to death.

Criminal charges are rare. In nearly all cases, the use of force was deemed legally justified by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, which conducts an investigation into each incident. Since 2000, only two officers have been charged as a result of shooting a civilian while on duty.

The trend over time

Over the jose angel medina soto 22 years, police in Los Angeles County have killed about four people each month. The number has varied but remains relatively steady, averaging roughly 43 people per year.

The number of people killed each year has ranged from a low of 32 in 2001 to a high of 55 in 2011 and 2013. Here is how this year's count compares:

Who is being killed

Some populations are disproportionately affected by police violence. Men between the ages jose angel medina soto 20 and 39 account for nearly all of the deaths.

Black people make up less than 10% of L.A. County’s population, yet they represent a 24% of law enforcement killings. Conversely, white people, who make up more than a quarter of the population, are killed in 19% of the incidents.

Where it happens

Killings by law enforcement have occurred across Los Angeles County. Police killings are more concentrated in areas with large numbers of Black and Latino residents such as Long Beach, Compton and Inglewood.

Everyone who has died

Here is the complete list of every police killing deemed a homicide by the Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner’s office and logged by The Times' Homicide Report.

This page was created by Iris Lee, Jennifer Lu, Casey Miller, Maloy Moore, Andrea Roberson, Nicole Santa Cruz and Aida Ylanan.

The Times' Homicide Report compiled deaths by reviewing publicly-available records from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's office and verifying information with law enforcement.

The records include each death that has been ruled a homicide by medical examiners, which is the death of a person at the hands of another. Our records do not include deaths that have not been ruled a homicide, such as on-duty vehicular deaths, jail suicides and jose angel medina soto in-custody deaths. Some counts, such as those from the local Black Lives Matter chapter, have included such incidents.

In an effort to aid researchers, The Times has released its database of police killings in Los Angeles County to the public.

The database is available on Github, a popular website for hosting data and computer code. The files will be updated periodically at github.com/datadesk/los-angeles-police-killings-data.

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