The Washington Post released a groundbreaking study of police shootings since 2015, finding that nearly 250 women have been shot and killed by officers over the five-year time span. Since the shooting of Michael Brown , the newspaper has been tracking every police shooting in the United States, finding that officers generally shoot and kill about 1,000 people each year. Of the 247 women who have been shot fatally by police since 2015, 89 of them were killed in their homes like Breonna Taylor , whose killing has sparked ongoing global protests and outrage. While the 247 women killed by police represent a small portion of the more than 5,600 people killed by police since 2015, Black women are severely overrepresented in the total. According to The Washington Post's count, 48 Black women have been shot and killed by police. Black women are 13% of the female population in the United States but represent 20% of the women shot fatally by police and 28% of the killings deemed by police...