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Most justified homicides, both by police and by private citizens, are not recorded in the FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR). The Washington post has been collecting information on fatal police shootings from published sources and social media for the last three years.They have found that police in the United States consistently shoot and kill about a thousand people each year. Virtually all of them are justified homicides. From the Washington Post: For the third year in a row, police nationwide shot and killed nearly 1,000 people, a grim annual tally that has persisted despite widespread public scrutiny of officers’...

The Felony Murder Rule is a law where a person who is involved in a felony can be charged with murder if someone dies as a result of the felony. From justia.com: The felony murder rule is a rule that allows a defendant to be charged with first-degree murder for a killing that occurs during a dangerous felony, even if the defendant is not the killer. The felony murder rule applies only to those crimes that are considered “inherently dangerous,” as the rationale underlying the felony murder rule is that certain crimes are so dangerous that society wants to deter individuals...

There is no national tally of justified homicides in the United States.  No one collects official statistics on justified homicides, collates them, tracks them and publishes the numbers. Hold on, you might say.  What about the FBI and the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)?   The FBI first started publishing some numbers on justified homicides in 1991, though they collected data before that.   But the numbers are a mere fraction of all justified homicides.  First, UCR reports are voluntary; second, the FBI definition of a justified homicide is not based on rulings by a coroner, prosecutor, judge, jury, or court. ...