This is a list of people whose deaths were caused by, or in relation to an interaction with non-military law enforcement officers in Canada. The list includes deaths caused by officers both on and off duty, and does not discriminate by method or motivation.
This list is incomplete; there are no official statistics on fatal shootings by law enforcement officers in Canada, though the range had previously been estimated to be between 15 and 25 per year.[1][2] In 2018, The CBC published "Deadly Force", an investigative report described as "the first country-wide database of every person who died or was killed during a police intervention", which documented 461 fatal police encounters in Canada between 2000 and 2017, suggesting the average is closer to 26 people a year. "Deadly Force" also recorded an increasing average yearly number of police-involved deaths over time.[3] At the moment, Statistics Canada only tracks fatal police shootings if the officer involved is criminally charged.[4]
- ^ "Inside the thin blue line: Policing Canada in 2015". National Post. August 1, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
- ^ "Stop the killing: Fatal police shootings in Canada". TheIndependent.ca. April 14, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
- ^ Marcoux, J; Nicholson, K. (2018). "Deadly force: Fatal encounters with police in Canada: 2000-2017". CBC.
- ^ "How many black men have been killed by Toronto police? We can't know". The Star. August 16, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
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