Police have already killed 1,000 Americans this year

The number of Americans killed by police in 2015 has officially topped 1,000, as calculated by a news report-based tally managed by The Guardian.

Though more than half of those killed by police in 2015 were white, black Americans are disproportionately affected: African-Americans are more than twice as likely (5.94 deaths per million) to be the victim of a police killing than white people (2.54 per million).

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(The Guardian)

The Guardian's project, "The Counted," launched because the federal government "has no comprehensive record of the number of people killed by law enforcement," a fact which has contributed to protests nationwide over the last year and a half. The goal of the tally is to provide information that is "prerequisite for an informed public discussion about the use of force by police."