LAPD officers shot fewer people in 2022, but the percentage that turned deadly increased
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police officers shot fewer people in 2022 than the year before, although a larger percentage of those encounters turned deadly, according to preliminary data released by the Los Angeles Police Department.
Police opened fire on civilians 31 times last year, striking 23 people; of those, 14 people were killed, according to a draft copy of the LAPD’s annual use-of-force report posted to the department’s website last week.
The number of overall shootings declined from 2021. That year, officers fired 37 times, striking 31 people and killing 17. But it was up from 2019, when police shootings reached a 30-year low.
LAPD officials trumpet the declines as proof the department is moving beyond the aggressive, confrontational style of policing it had long been known for. They have argued that, while force incidents garner a lot of attention from the news and on social
