Listed below are people killed by non-military

law enforcement Law enforcement is the activity of some members of government who act in an organized manner to enforce the law by discovering, deterring, rehabilitating, or punishing people who violate the rules Rule or ruling may refer to: Education ...

officers in

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, whether in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. Also included are cases when people died in police custody due to applied techniques. Inclusion in the lists implies neither wrongdoing nor justification on the part of the person killed or the officer involved. The listing merely documents the occurrence of a death. The list below is not complete.

Statistics

The numbers before 1978 can not be compared directly to the later numbers. A list of police killings was first compiled 1997, and the legal limit to keep records is 20 years, so some files may have been destroyed. The numbers do not include suicide.

Cases

1920s

1920 }) occurred on January 13, 1920, in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin during negotiations by the Weimar National Assembly on the Works Council Act (german: Betriebsrätegesetz). The number of victims is controversial, but it is without doubt the bloodiest demonstration in German history. The event was overshadowed two months later by the

Kapp Putsch The Kapp Putsch (), also known as the Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch (), was an attempted coup against the German national government in Berlin on 13 March 1920. Named after its leaders Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz, its goal was to undo th ...

, but remained in Berlin's labour movement and security forces' collective memory.

1960s

1962 1967

1970s

1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1977 1978 1979

1980s

1980 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1989

1990s

1990 1993 1994 1999

2000s

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010s

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

2020s

2020 2021 2022

References

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