Dan Butler and Youssef Saudie reporting in NITV.
In data released to the Redfern Legal Centre under access to information laws, 13,161 of the 28,826 recorded 'events' can be seen to have involved an Indigenous person.
Samantha Lee, the senior solicitor at Redfern Legal Centre, described the figure as "hideous".
"The stats show that use of force is used disproportionately against First Nations people in New South Wales," she told NITV.
"It's not just a case of a bad apple. It's a systemic problem that requires a systemic solution.
The data is also a snapshot of discrimination faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in NSW, Ms Lee believes.
"These stats could feed into the Closing the Gap reforms. We need to know how police are treating First Nations people in order to address the presence of First Nations people in the criminal justice system."
Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) has been at the centre of a recent push to more clearly define, monitor and limit the use of force by NSW Police.
RLC, the Aboriginal Legal Service and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre have written to NSW parliamentarians calling for an inquiry into the issue.
"We hear a lot about training, training, training of police officers; training is one aspect of a very big problem," said Ms Lee.
"The inquiry should examine the issues from recruitment, to data collection, to training, to performance monitoring. All these issues need to be addressed."
Ms Lee said the use of force against First Nations people "in particular" needed to be addressed and minimised, also calling on the police commissioner to instigate an examination and cultural shift within NSW Police.
