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EPS officer-involved shootings 2024 and rising use of force

Original source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-police-report-slight-uptick-in-use-of-force-amid-increasing-violent-incidents-1.7328827 Retrieved: 2026-07-04 (CBC blocks direct fetch; content retrieved via reader proxy r.jina.ai over the same URL.)

Key facts

  • Edmonton police officers were involved in nine officer-involved shootings in 2024, four of them fatal.
  • People who encountered police use of force, first half of year: 740 (2022) → 909 (2023) → 1,081 (2024).
  • Of first-half-2024 use-of-force incidents, 16% resulted in injuries, 2% required hospital care.
  • Violent occurrences EPS responds to: +23% (2022→2023), +15% (2023→2024) — EPS's own framing for the rise.
  • Named fatal case: Mathios Arkangelo, shot June 29, 2024; his family filed a lawsuit against four officers and Chief Dale McFee. (Other CBC reporting notes camera footage surfaced of "a Black man who was shot and killed by an officer in June," referring to Arkangelo.)
  • Criminologist Temitope Oriola (U of A): "Alberta leads the way nationally with respect to shootings of civilians by the police. This has been the case for at least a couple of years." Wants EPS brass to act on use-of-force cases sooner to rebuild trust.

Distinction to keep: these are officer-involved shootings (police discharging at civilians), not citywide gun-violence "shootings" (of which EPS counted 221 in 2023).