Who are the “police” in “police violence”? Fatal violence by U.S. law enforcement agencies across levels of government

Table 1 Law enforcement-related deaths by agency level 2013–2022 in mapping police violence

Agency	Single agency deaths (N = 10,550)	Multiple agency* deaths (N = 600)	Total deaths (%) (N = 11,150)
Federal	261	68	329 (2.8%)
Tribal	28	9	37 (0.31%)
State	715	227	942 (7.9%)
Local
Municipal	6508	563	7073 (60%)
County	3008	452	3460 (29%)
University	28	6	34 (0.29%)
School	2	0	2 (0.02%)

*5% of the deaths in this database included multiple agencies. For these deaths, we double or triple counted the death to show all of the involved agencies. Therefore, the counts in the multiple agency deaths column add up to more than the total of 600

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