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I would have to pull the exact number, but it was something like 1200 total police killings on average and about 100,000 police officers in the US. So yes, way less than 7%! Also, covid is less than 7% deadly, so mostly safe and no big deal I guess then.
According to the WaPo database, there were 1013 people killed by shooting in the last year. (Not sure if that means 2019 calendar year or 1 year window from current date, but that's close enough to the 2019 estimates to use here.)
According to Statista, there were 719,255 "officers with powers of arrest in 2019". This includes all variations on street-level officers, from cops to sheriffs. I'm using that number as the assumption that only arresting officers will have occasion to shoot someone, instead of the full 1.1 million estimated total police officers.
Assuming that an officer won't have occasion to shoot more than 1 person in a year, that means only 0.14% of cops have killed someone last year. Fact check: Mostly peaceful!
Some more metrics:
All deaths from any police method in 2019 was 1099, bumping that number to 0.15% of cops killed someone last year. Fiery but peaceful!
Cops make between 10-13 million arrests a year, depending on which estimating database you use. So only 0.011% of arrests result in a death. Very peaceful!
TL;DR when compared to police brutality, 7% is fucking sky high, and anyone citing that terrible study is an idiot.