New data from the LAPD shows the number of shootings involving police officers has continued to rise in the second half of 2025, with at least 43 shootings representing a 60% increase — compared with last year.
According to an LAPD crime data summary circulated late last week, as of Nov. 29, 2025, officers had fired their guns in 40 incidents, compared with 26 shootings during the same period in 2024.
Officers shot three more people in three separate incidents in the first week of December, including during an early-morning confrontation in Reseda Monday, in which the LAPD said officers shot a man who fired at them near a convenience store.
Of the 40 pre-December shootings, people were struck by gunfire in 30 of the shootings, and 13 of those people were killed by police gunfire, the summary said.
“Mayor Bass is deeply concerned about the recent rise in Officer Involved Shootings – every incident will be closely reviewed,” the Mayor’s office emailed. “Mayor Bass will work with the Chief of Police and the Police Commission to understand the causes of the increase, and measures to reduce these incidents.”
The LAPD didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but in July, when the number of police shootings had already shown a significant rise compared to previous years, Chief Jim McDonnell said officers were being confronted more often by people armed with real or facsimile weapons.
“Our officers facing somebody who is, for the most part, armed and assaultive, and they’re there to either protect themselves or protect someone from the public,” he said.
The Board of Police Commissioners has asked the department several times in recent months to provide more information on the circumstances that led to this year’s increase, especially considering the overall violent crime rate continues to decline in Los Angeles.
The same data summary showed as of Nov. 29 there were 62 fewer murders in 2025, and there were 71 fewer shootings in which the victims survived.
While the LAPD said officers are making fewer driver and pedestrian stops (down nearly 5% vs 2024), they are seizing more illegally-possessed firearms, with 7,255 booked so far this year compared with 6,278 last year.
In addition to the police shooting in Reseda early on Monday, Dec. 8, a detective interrupted a stabbing in the Westlake area Dec. 2 and shot the assailant, and officers responding to a home in the Lake Balboa neighborhood shot and killed a man while the man was stabbing his father, who died from the stabbing attack.
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