currently it seems like there are probably less then 1k people who have died from conflicts with the government this year

in a sense this question was created to gauge if a civil war had started

I'm going to need help resolving this due to the opaqueness of these kinds of death counts. I'll keep this comment updated with my own estimates.

About 1000 people are killed by police in the US every year according to these sources:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1362796/number-people-killed-police-us/

https://campaignzero.org/wp-content/uploads/campaign-zero-mpv-2024-fact-sheet.pdf

https://mappingpoliceviolence.us/