This data was obtained from https://mappingpoliceviolence.us/.

Mapping Police Violence is a 501(c)(3) organization that publishes the most comprehensive and up-to-date data on police violence in America to support transformative change.

This is a database set on openly sharing information on police violence in America.

Some information on this data according to their website: Our data has been meticulously sourced from official police use of force data collection programs in states like California, Texas and Virginia, combined with nationwide data from The Gun Violence Archive and the Fatal Encounters database, two impartial crowdsourced databases. We've also done extensive original research to further improve the quality and completeness of the data; searching social media, obituaries, criminal records databases, police reports and other sources to identify the race of 90 percent of all victims in the database.

We believe the data represented on this site is the most comprehensive accounting of people killed by police since 2013. Note that the Mapping Police Violence database is more comprehensive than the Washington Post police shootings database: while WaPo only tracks cases where people are fatally shot by on-duty police officers, our database includes additional incidents such as cases where police kill someone through use of a chokehold, baton, taser or other means as well as cases such as killings by off-duty police. A recent report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated approximately 1,200 people were killed by police between June, 2015 and May, 2016. Our database identified 1,100 people killed by police over this time period. While there are undoubtedly police killings that are not included in our database (namely, those that go unreported by the media), these estimates suggest that our database captures 92% of the total number of police killings that have occurred since 2013. We hope these data will be used to provide greater transparency and accountability for police departments as part of the ongoing work to end police violence in America.

Sadly, the trend of fatal police shootings in the United States seems to only be increasing, with a total 1,173 civilians having been shot, 248 of whom were Black, as of December 2024. In 2023, there were 1,164 fatal police shootings. Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 6.1 fatal shootings per million of the population per year between 2015 and 2024. Police brutality in the U.S. In recent years, particularly since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, police brutality has become a hot button issue in the United States. The number of homicides committed by police in the United States is often compared to those in countries such as England, where the number is significantly lower. Black Lives Matter The Black Lives Matter Movement, formed in 2013, has been a vocal part of the movement against police brutality in the U.S. by organizing “die-ins”, marches, and demonstrations in response to the killings of black men and women by police. While Black Lives Matter has become a controversial movement within the U.S., it has brought more attention to the number and frequency of police shootings of civilians.

This dataset, compiled by The Washington Post, logs every person shot and killed by an on-duty police officer in the United States from 2015 to 2024. Following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, it was discovered that FBI reports were significantly undercounted, with only a third of fatal shootings recorded by 2021. This comprehensive database aims to fill that gap and provide detailed information on each incident, including the police departments involved, to enhance accountability.

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Below are lists of people killed by law enforcement in the United States, both on duty and off duty. Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not collect these data.

Deaths by age group in 2015, according to The Counted

Column Details:

COLUMN NAME	INFO
id	SERIAL NO
name	NAME OF VICTIM THAT GOT SHOT OR TASERED BY POLICE
date	DATE IN WHICH HE GOT VICTIMIZED
manner_of_death	TYPE OF MANNER IN WHICH HE DIED
armed	THE VICTIM WAS ARMED OR NOT
age	AGE OF VICTIM
gender	GENDER OF VICTIM
race	RACE,ETHICITY OF VICTIM
city	CITY IN THE USA IN which he/she DIED
state	STATE IN THE USA IN which he/she DIED
signs_of_mental_illness	VICTIM SHOWS SIGN OF ILLNESS
threat_level	LEVEL OF THREAT ON POLICE
flee	VICTIM FLEE OR DIE
body_camera	BODY CAMERA WAS ON POLICE OR NOT
longitude	LONGITUDE OF LOCATION
latitude	LATITUDE OF LOCATION
is_geocoding_exact	LOCATION AVAILABLE EXACT OR NOT

TO KNOW MORE FROM WIKIPEDIA :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States

About this dataset

The Washington Post compiled a dataset of every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty since Jan. 1, 2015.

In 2015, The Post began tracking more than a dozen details about each killing by culling local news reports, law enforcement websites and social media and by monitoring independent databases such as Killed by Police and Fatal Encounters. The available features are: - Race of the deceased; - Circumstances of the shooting; - Whether the person was armed; - Whether the victim was experiencing a mental-health crisis; - Among others.

In 2016, The Post is gathering additional information about each fatal shooting that occurs this year and is filing open-records requests with departments. More than a dozen additional details are being collected about officers in each shooting.

The Post is documenting only those shootings in which a police officer, in the line of duty, shot and killed a civilian — the circumstances that most closely parallel the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., which began the protest movement culminating in Black Lives Matter and an increased focus on police accountability nationwide. The Post is not tracking deaths of people in police custody, fatal shootings by off-duty officers or non-shooting deaths.

The FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention log fatal shootings by police, but officials acknowledge that their data is incomplete. In 2015, The Post documented more than two times more fatal shootings by police than had been recorded by the FBI. Last year, the FBI announced plans to overhaul how it tracks fatal police encounters.

How to use this dataset

• Understanding US Police Shootings by Curtis Thompson
• Dataset Questions and Suggestions
• More datasets

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the authors.

BibTeX

@misc{wapo-police-shootings-bot , author = {The Washington Post}, title = {data-police-shootings}, month = jan, year = 2015, publisher = {Github}, url = {https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings} }

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For most of the last 35 years, the number of police officers who die on the job in the U.S. declined, but one grim statistic held steady: The most common cause of death was gun homicide. Those numbers grew significantly on Thursday night when five police officers were shot and killed at a demonstration in Dallas that was protesting recent killings by police officers in other states. President Obama called it “a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement.” Per officer, policing had become even safer in recent years than the overall death counts suggest, which makes the Dallas shooting that much more of a singular, horrific massacre. That’s because the decline in the number of deaths by police officers in the line of duty has occurred as the number of officers has risen. The number of full-time, sworn local police officers increased by 35 percent from 1987 to 2013, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. During that same period, the number of officers killed declined by 34 percent. 1 And a growing share of officer deaths are happening in accidental or deliberate car collisions.

A geographically-resolved, multi-level Bayesian model is used to analyze the data presented in the U.S. Police-Shooting Database (USPSD) in order to investigate the extent of racial bias in the shooting of American civilians by police officers in recent years. In contrast to previous work that relied on the FBI’s Supplemental Homicide Reports that were constructed from self-reported cases of police-involved homicide, this data set is less likely to be biased by police reporting practices. County-specific relative risk outcomes of being shot by police are estimated as a function of the interaction of: 1) whether suspects/civilians were armed or unarmed, and 2) the race/ethnicity of the suspects/civilians. The results provide evidence of a significant bias in the killing of unarmed black Americans relative to unarmed white Americans, in that the probability of being {black, unarmed, and shot by police} is about 3.49 times the probability of being {white, unarmed, and shot by police} on average. Furthermore, the results of multi-level modeling show that there exists significant heterogeneity across counties in the extent of racial bias in police shootings, with some counties showing relative risk ratios of 20 to 1 or more. Finally, analysis of police shooting data as a function of county-level predictors suggests that racial bias in police shootings is most likely to emerge in police departments in larger metropolitan counties with low median incomes and a sizable portion of black residents, especially when there is high financial inequality in that county. There is no relationship between county-level racial bias in police shootings and crime rates (even race-specific crime rates), meaning that the racial bias observed in police shootings in this data set is not explainable as a response to local-level crime rates.

Content

Police Deaths

This directory contains the data and code behind the story The Dallas Shooting Was Among The Deadliest For Police In U.S. History. The primary source of data is the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP), started in 1996 by a college student who is now a police officer and who continues to maintain the database.

File descriptions:

File	Description
scrape.R	Scrapes data on the death of every officer tracked on ODMP
all_data.csv	Output of scrape.R
clean.R	Takes the data in all_data.csv, cleans it and formats the dates correctly, and tags every entry as human or canine.
clean_data.csv	Output of clean.R
plot.R	Summarizes police deaths by category and generates a plot similar to the one below

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Context

This is a dataset from FiveThirtyEight hosted on their GitHub. Explore FiveThirtyEight data using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the FiveThirtyEight organization page!

• Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is maintained using GitHub's API and Kaggle's API.

This dataset is distributed under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Content

Police Killings

This directory contains the data behind the story Where Police Have Killed Americans In 2015.

We linked entries from the Guardian's database on police killings to census data from the American Community Survey. The Guardian data was downloaded on June 2, 2015. More information about its database is available here.

Census data was calculated at the tract level from the 2015 5-year American Community Survey using the tables S0601 (demographics), S1901 (tract-level income and poverty), S1701 (employment and education) and DP03 (county-level income). Census tracts were determined by geocoding addresses to latitude/longitude using the Bing Maps and Google Maps APIs and then overlaying points onto 2014 census tracts. GEOIDs are census-standard and should be easily joinable to other ACS tables -- let us know if you find anything interesting.

Field descriptions:

Header	Description	Source
name	Name of deceased	Guardian
age	Age of deceased	Guardian
gender	Gender of deceased	Guardian
raceethnicity	Race/ethnicity of deceased	Guardian
month	Month of killing	Guardian
day	Day of incident	Guardian
year	Year of incident	Guardian
streetaddress	Address/intersection where incident occurred	Guardian
city	City where incident occurred	Guardian
state	State where incident occurred	Guardian
latitude	Latitude, geocoded from address
longitude	Longitude, geocoded from address
state_fp	State FIPS code	Census
county_fp	County FIPS code	Census
tract_ce	Tract ID code	Census
geo_id	Combined tract ID code
county_id	Combined county ID code
namelsad	Tract description	Census
lawenforcementagency	Agency involved in incident	Guardian
cause	Cause of death	Guardian
armed	How/whether deceased was armed	Guardian
pop	Tract population	Census
share_white	Share of pop that is non-Hispanic white	Census
share_bloack	Share of pop that is black (alone, not in combination)	Census
share_hispanic	Share of pop that is Hispanic/Latino (any race)	Census
p_income	Tract-level median personal income	Census
h_income	Tract-level median household income	Census
county_income	County-level median household income	Census
comp_income	h_income / county_income	Calculated from Census
county_bucket	Household income, quintile within county	Calculated from Census
nat_bucket	Household income, quintile nationally	Calculated from Census
pov	Tract-level poverty rate (official)	Census
urate	Tract-level unemployment rate	Calculated from Census
college	Share of 25+ pop with BA or higher	Calculated from Census

Note regarding income calculations:

All income fields are in inflation-adjusted 2013 dollars.

comp_income is simply tract-level median household income as a share of county-level median household income.

county_bucket provides where the tract's median household income falls in the distribution (by quintile) of all tracts in the county. (1 indicates a tract falls in the poorest 20% of tracts within the county.) Distribution is not weighted by population.

nat_bucket is the same but for all U.S. counties.

Context

This is a dataset from FiveThirtyEight hosted on their GitHub. Explore FiveThirtyEight data using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the FiveThirtyEight organization page!

• Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is maintained using GitHub's API and Kaggle's API.

This dataset is distributed under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Context

On June 08th, 2020, I listened to an interview on National Public Radio (NPR) between Rachel Martin - An NPR's journalist - and D. Brian Burgharton about police brutality in the US. D. Brian Burghart has been studying police killings since 2012 and is the founder of Fatal Encounters. Fatal Encounters is the first national database to track how many people are killed by police. It began as a crowdsourced effort to compile public records about incidents where law enforcement officials killed someone. Although, he later changed his approach to compiling news reports that he finds with Google alerts.

Content

The dataset is a CSV file and contains 28335 rows and 29 columns. The 29 variables are the following: - Unique ID - Subject's name - Subject's age - Subject's gender - Subject's race - Subject's race with imputations - Imputation probability - URL of image of deceased - Date of injury resulting in death (month/day/year) - Location of injury (address) - Location of death (city) - Location of death (state) - Location of death (zip code) - Location of death (county) - Full Address - Latitude - Longitude - Agency responsible for death - Cause of death - A brief description of the circumstances surrounding the death - Dispositions/Exclusions INTERNAL USE, NOT FOR ANALYSIS - Intentional Use of Force (Developing) - Link to news article or photo of official document - Symptoms of mental illness? INTERNAL USE, NOT FOR ANALYSIS - Video - Date&Description - Unique ID formula - Unique identifier (redundant) - Date (Year)

Acknowledgements

Fatal Encounters

What is The Counted? The Counted is a project by the Guardian – and you – working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015, to monitor their demographics and to tell the stories of how they died. The database will combine Guardian reporting with verified crowdsourced information to build a more comprehensive record of such fatalities. The Counted is the most thorough public accounting for deadly use of force in the US, but it will operate as an imperfect work in progress – and will be updated by Guardian reporters and interactive journalists as frequently and as promptly as possible.

The Washington Post is compiling a database of every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty since Jan. 1, 2015.

In 2015, The Post began tracking more than a dozen details about each killing — including the race of the deceased, the circumstances of the shooting, whether the person was armed and whether the person was experiencing a mental-health crisis — by culling local news reports, law enforcement websites and social media, and by monitoring independent databases such as Killed by Police and Fatal Encounters. The Post conducted additional reporting in many cases.

In 2016, The Post is gathering additional information about each fatal shooting by police that occurs this year and is filing open-records requests with departments. More than a dozen additional details are being collected about officers in each shooting. Officers’ names are being included in the database after The Post contacts the departments to request comment.

The Post is documenting only those shootings in which a police officer, in the line of duty, shoots and kills a civilian — the circumstances that most closely parallel the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., which began the protest movement culminating in Black Lives Matter and an increased focus on police accountability nationwide. The Post is not tracking deaths of people in police custody, fatal shootings by off-duty officers or non-shooting deaths. The FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention log fatal shootings by police, but officials acknowledge that their data is incomplete. In 2015, The Post documented more than twice as many fatal shootings by police as had been recorded by the FBI. Last year, the FBI announced plans to overhaul how it tracks fatal police encounters.

The Post's database is updated regularly as fatal shootings are reported and as facts emerge about individual cases. The Post is seeking assistance in making the database as comprehensive as possible. To provide information about fatal police shootings since Jan. 1, 2015, send us an email at policeshootingsfeedback@washpost.com. The Post is also interested in obtaining photos of the deceased and original videos of fatal encounters with police.

Data Dictionary

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Key	List of...	Comment	Example Value
Person.Name	String	Full name of the individual or "Unknown" if not reported	"Tim Elliot"
Person.Age	Integer	Age in years of the individual or 0 (zero) if not reported	53
Person.Gender	String	One of Male, Female, or Unknown	"Male"
Person.Race	String	One of Asian, African American, White, Hispanic, Native American, Other, or Unknown.	"Asian"
Incident.Date.Month	Integer	Month (1-12) in which the shooting occurred	1
Incident.Date.Day	Integer	Day (1-31) in which the shooting occurred	2
Incident.Date.Year	Integer	Year (2015-2019) in which the shooting occurred	2015
Incident.Date.Full	String	Date in which shooting occurred (Year/Month/Day)	"2015/01/02"
Incident.Location.City	String	Name of city in which the shooting occurred	"Shelton"
Incident.Location.State	String	Name of U.S. State in which the shooting occurred	"WA"
Factors.Armed	String	Description of any weapon carried by the person (.e., "gun", "knife", "unarmed"); value is "unknown" if not reported.	"gun"
Factors.Mental-Illness	Boolean	True if factors of mental illness were perceived in the person; False otherwise	True
Factors.Threat-Level	String	Threat of person as perceived by police. One of "attack", "undetermined", or "other"; value is "unknown" if not reported.	"attack"
Factors.Fleeing	String	Means by which person was fleeing (e.g., "Car", "Foot") or "Not fleeing"; value is "unknown" if not reported.	"Not fleeing"
Shooting.Manner

This study looks at the impact of police departments' organizational and managerial characteristics on police-community relations. Particular attention is paid to communities of color in the analysis. The dataset merges variables from various data sources. These include the following series housed within ICPSR: Two sub-series within the The Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data Series: Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA), and Offenses Known and Clearances by Arrest The Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) Series Additionally, the following sources are also contained in the final dataset and available online: The Fatal Encounters and Police Violence Project, both of which track the number of people killed by police. The American Community Survey, which is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Variables include officer counts, demographics, weapons used, technologies, duties performed, salary figures, department units, qualifications, training structure, budgets, states, and addresses by department. Total crimes for each jurisdiction are collected. The presence of officer foot patrols, civilian review boards, and other community policing initiatives are measured. Violence committed against officers and civilians are included. Demographic variables of residents of jurisdictions including poverty, housing status, race, marital status are collected as well.

Each day researchers at The Post identify and manually record data for fatal police shootings in the United States. Each record requires at least two sources and must be approved by our editors before being publicly released.

Data about each fatal shooting is provided via two comma-separated value (CSV) files:

Death Record data for each victim and incident is included in /v2/fatal-police-shootings-data.csv.

New in v2 is a second Agencies csv, /v2/fatal-police-shootings-agencies.csv, which contains data for police agencies involved in at least one fatal police shooting since 2015. The agencies csv has a field called agency_ids, which can be used to associate each death record with the agencies involved.

To enable joining this dataset with other federal law enforcement datasets, in 2022 The Post undertook an effort to increase the coverage of federal Originating Agency Identifier (ORI) codes recorded for agencies in the database. Using agency data from the FBI and Department of Justice, reporters did a combination of automated and manual name and ORI code matching to fill in missing ORI code data. They also standardized department names. Agency naming, organization, hierarchy and classification varies from state to state. For this reason, sub-agencies and local troops, regions and posts have been aggregated into their parent agencies, meaning that in some cases an individual agency will have multiple associated ORI codes. For instance, a state police depart

Original Data

Acknowlegement

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The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, began the protest movement culminating in Black Lives Matter and an increased focus on police accountability nationwide.

Since Jan. 1, 2015, The Washington Post has been compiling a database of every fatal shooting in the US by a police officer in the line of duty. It's difficult to find reliable data from before this period, as police killings haven't been comprehensively documented, and the statistics on police brutality are much less available. As a result, a vast number of cases go unreported.

The Washington Post is tracking more than a dozen details about each killing - including the race, age and gender of the deceased, whether the person was armed, and whether the victim was experiencing a mental-health crisis. They have gathered this information from law enforcement websites, local new reports, social media, and by monitoring independent databases such as "Killed by police" and "Fatal Encounters". The Post has also conducted additional reporting in many cases.

There are four additional datasets. These are US census data on poverty rate, high school graduation rate, median household income, and racial demographics.

Source of census data: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_facts.xhtml

List of Active law enforcement agencies (Sheriff, Municipal, University, Court, etc)

Context

This dataset contains data behind the story, The Dallas Shooting Was Among The Deadliest For Police In U.S. History. The data are scraped from ODMP and capture information on all tracked on-duty police officer deaths in the U.S. broken down by cause from 1971 until 2016.

Content

This dataset tags every entry as human or canine. There are 10 variables:

• person

• dept: Department

• eow: End of watch

• cause: Cause of death

• cause_short: Shortened cause of death

• date: Cleaned EOW

• year: Year from EOW

• canine

• dept_name

• state

Inspiration

Using the data, can you determine the temporal trend of police officer deaths by cause? By state? By department?

Acknowledgements

The primary source of data is the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP), started in 1996 by a college student who is now a police officer and who continues to maintain the database. The original data and code can be found on the FiveThirtyEight GitHub.

The Counted is a project by the Guardian – and you – working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015 and 2016, to monitor their demographics and to tell the stories of how they died.

The database will combine Guardian reporting with verified crowdsourced information to build a more comprehensive record of such fatalities. The Counted is the most thorough public accounting for deadly use of force in the US, but it will operate as an imperfect work in progress – and will be updated by Guardian reporters and interactive journalists frequently.

Any deaths arising directly from encounters with law enforcement will be included in the database. This will inevitably include, but will likely not be limited to, people who were shot, tasered and struck by police vehicles as well those who died in police custody. Self-inflicted deaths during encounters with law enforcement or in police custody or detention facilities will not be included.

The US government has no comprehensive record of the number of people killed by law enforcement. This lack of basic data has been glaring amid the protests, riots and worldwide debate set in motion by the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in August 2014. The Guardian agrees with those analysts, campaign groups, activists and authorities who argue that such accounting is a prerequisite for an informed public discussion about the use of force by police.

Contributions of any information that may improve the quality of our data will be greatly welcomed as we work toward better accountability. Please contact us at thecounted@theguardian.com.

CREDITS
Research and Reporting: Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Jamiles Lartey
Design and Production: Kenan Davis, Rich Harris, Nadja Popovich, Kenton Powell

Content

In this dataset you will find a list of over 12,000 people who were shot dead by the police. Additionally, you will find more information about their name, race, gender, age, etc.

Acknowledgements

This dataset comes from https://data.world/awram/us-police-involved-fatalities.