A new study shows Franklin County has the highest rate of fatal law enforcement shootings in Ohio and is among the highest in the nation.
The county has the highest rate of fatal shootings by law enforcement among Ohio’s metropolitan counties and is ranked 18th among the 100 most populous counties nationally, based on average annual fatality rate, according to the study by the Ohio Alliance for Innovation in Population Health released Tuesday.
The study, conducted through a partnership with Ohio University, analyzed six years of data compiled by The Washington Post’s fatal police shooting database, which did not previously factor in population or denote in which county a shooting happened. The report and The Post’s database used information on shootings that occurred between Jan. 1, 2015 through Dec. 31, 2020.