The Chicago Police Department has killed more children since 2013 than any other local law enforcement agency, according to police accountability data

• Data from Mapping Police Violence shows police officers have killed more than 150 kids nationwide since 2013.
• Data shows the Chicago Police Department has killed more children than any other local law enforcement agency.
• Adam Toledo, 13, who was fatally shot last month, is the youngest and most recent victim.

The police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo has sparked a renewed outcry over officer shootings, this time thrusting the Chicago Police Department into the spotlight, as recently released body-worn camera footage shows the 7th-grader raising his hands moments before being fatally shot last month.

But police accountability data collected over the last eight years suggests Toledo's tragic death at the hands of a Chicago police officer may not be an anomaly.

Since 2013, the Chicago Police Department has killed more children than any other local law enforcement agency in the country, according to data compiled by Mapping Police Violence.

Between 2013 and 2021, Chicago Police Department officers killed at least 12 kids younger than 18, Mapping Police Violence's database shows.

Nine of the young victims were Black. Two were Hispanic. One's race is listed as "unknown."

The database shows that officers with the New York Police Department killed the second most, with five killings of children in the last eight years, while the Columbus Police Department in Ohio and the Harris County Sheriff's Office in Texas killed four children during the time period.

Mapping Police Violence's database includes information sourced from the three "largest, most comprehensive and impartial crowdsourced databases" on police killings, including FatalEncounters.org, the US Police Shootings Database, and KilledbyPolice.net, the group says. Data scientists also used social media, obituaries, criminal record databases, and police reports to identify the race of most victims and add additional details about the killings.

The downloadable database includes information on more than 8,000 police killings in the country since 2013. According to the interactive's website, 97% of the killings occurred while a police officer was on duty or acting in a law enforcement capacity.

According to the database and relevant media reports, two of the Chicago Police Department killings of children were committed by off-duty cops.

The Washington Post's police shootings database, which has been tracking officer shootings since 2015, shows that Adam Toledo was one of the youngest people killed by police since The Post started collecting data.

The only victims in the database who were younger were two 6-year-olds and a 12-year-old.

The Chicago Police Department declined to comment and prompted Insider to submit a Freedom of Information Act request instead.

The highly anticipated video footage of the officer shooting Adam was released Thursday, more than two weeks after the Chicago Police Department said the pursuit of Adam was an "armed confrontation."

Police said they were responding to reports of gunshots in the area when they chased Adam down an alley. The department said Adam was armed, and a firearm was recovered in the pursuit, though that claim remains unverified.

But the body-worn camera footage released Thursday challenges the department's initial statements. In the video, less than one second passes between when Adam raises his hands and Chicago Police Department Officer Eric Stillman, 34, shoots him in the chest.