No-one actually knows the statistics:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/09/08/how-many-police-shootings-a-year-no-one-knows/
The only official source is voluntary reporting by police departments:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-americans-the-police-kill-each-year/
But US police kill more in days than other high-income countries police kill in years:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-police-killings-us-vs-other-countries
There is active opposition to compiling the data:
http://gawker.com/what-ive-learned-from-two-years-collecting-data-on-poli-1625472836
Lacking reliable data from official sources, there are various independent attempts to compile statistics:
http://www.fatalencounters.org/
http://regressing.deadspin.com/were-compiling-every-police-involved-shooting-in-americ-1624180387
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database#
The Guardian, Why We Must Keep Counting
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