Police in Georgia fatally shot 30 people in 2017, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis.
The complete list of shootings is now available in the AJC's online database. The database represents the most comprehensive accounting of the 243 fatal police shootings across the state over the past eight years. The list contains detailed information about each shooting, such as information about the race of the citizens killed by police and details about the shootings, including whether the person was armed when they were shot by police.
Last year's total of 30 fatal shootings matched the annual average over the past eight years. Mental health problems played a role in a third of the cases. The AJC created the database in 2015 to help fill a void in information about police shootings in the state as part of its Over the Line investigative series. No single police agency had been tracking police shootings and no one could say with accuracy how many people had been fatally shot by police in Georgia.
Read the latest analysis of shootings and view the full list on myAJC.com.
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