Source? This article says it was almost 1000 last year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/ https://www.washingt

Source? This article says it was almost 1000 last year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic... A few years ago police shot a man neareby when they mistook a water hose nozzle he was holding for a handgun.