Around 50 per year die due to shootings, according to data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (www.nleomf.org) for 2003-2014. About as ma

Around 50 per year die due to shootings, according to data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (www.nleomf.org) for 2003-2014. About as many as die per year from auto crashes/getting run over. Contrast that with around 400 deaths per year caused by police officers (2003-2009 http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ard0309st.pdf http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ard0309st.pdf , that study seems to have stopped then). Edit: the ~130 numbers from some of the other posts are closer to the total number of police officers dying in the line of duty, rather than shootings specifically.