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  1. People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2024, by race

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    Updated May 27, 2025
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    Statista (2025). People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2024, by race [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    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.

  2. A

    ‘Police Killings US’ analyzed by Analyst-2

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    Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai) / Inspirient GmbH (inspirient.com), ‘Police Killings US’ analyzed by Analyst-2 [Dataset]. https://analyst-2.ai/analysis/kaggle-police-killings-us-57e7/latest
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    Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai) / Inspirient GmbH (inspirient.com)
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    Analysis of ‘Police Killings US’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/azizozmen/police-killings-us on 13 February 2022.

    --- Dataset description provided by original source is as follows ---

    "In 2015, The Washington Post began to log every fatal shooting by an on-duty police officer in the United States. In that time there have been more than 5,000 such shootings recorded by The Post. After Michael Brown, an unarmed Black man, was killed in 2014 by police in Ferguson, Mo., a Post investigation found that the FBI undercounted fatal police shootings by more than half. This is because reporting by police departments is voluntary and many departments fail to do so. The Washington Post’s data relies primarily on news accounts, social media postings, and police reports. Analysis of more than five years of data reveals that the number and circumstances of fatal shootings and the overall demographics of the victims have remained relatively constant..." SOURCE ==> Washington Post Article

    For more information about this story

    This dataset has been prepared by The Washington Post (they keep updating it on runtime) with every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty since Jan. 1, 2015.

    2016 PoliceKillingUS DATASET
    2017 PoliceKillingUS DATASET
    2018 PoliceKillingUS DATASET
    2019 PoliceKillingUS DATASET
    2020 PoliceKillingUS DATASET

    Features at the Dataset:

    The file fatal-police-shootings-data.csv contains data about each fatal shooting in CSV format. The file can be downloaded at this URL. Each row has the following variables:

    • id: a unique identifier for each victim
    • name: the name of the victim
    • date: the date of the fatal shooting in YYYY-MM-DD format
    • manner_of_death: shot, shot and Tasered
    • armed: indicates that the victim was armed with some sort of implement that a police officer believed could inflict harm
      • undetermined: it is not known whether or not the victim had a weapon
      • unknown: the victim was armed, but it is not known what the object was
      • unarmed: the victim was not armed
    • age: the age of the victim
    • gender: the gender of the victim. The Post identifies victims by the gender they identify with if reports indicate that it differs from their biological sex.
      • M: Male
      • F: Female
      • None: unknown
    • race:
      • W: White, non-Hispanic
      • B: Black, non-Hispanic
      • A: Asian
      • N: Native American
      • H: Hispanic
      • O: Other
      • None: unknown
    • city: the municipality where the fatal shooting took place. Note that in some cases this field may contain a county name if a more specific municipality is unavailable or unknown.
    • state: two-letter postal code abbreviation
    • signs of mental illness: News reports have indicated the victim had a history of mental health issues, expressed suicidal intentions or was experiencing mental distress at the time of the shooting.
    • threat_level: The threat_level column was used to flag incidents for the story by Amy Brittain in October 2015. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/10/24/on-duty-under-fire/ As described in the story, the general criteria for the attack label was that there was the most direct and immediate threat to life. That would include incidents where officers or others were shot at, threatened with a gun, attacked with other weapons or physical force, etc. The attack category is meant to flag the highest level of threat. The other and undetermined categories represent all remaining cases. Other includes many incidents where officers or others faced significant threats.
    • flee: News reports have indicated the victim was moving away from officers
      • Foot
      • Car
      • Not fleeing

    The threat column and the fleeing column are not necessarily related. For example, there is an incident in which the suspect is fleeing and at the same time turns to fire at gun at the officer. Also, attacks represent a status immediately before fatal shots by police while fleeing could begin slightly earlier and involve a chase. - body_camera: News reports have indicated an officer was wearing a body camera and it may have recorded some portion of the incident.

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  3. Fatal Police Shootings in the US (2015-2020)

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    Updated Jun 1, 2020
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    Larxel (2020). Fatal Police Shootings in the US (2015-2020) [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/andrewmvd/police-deadly-force-usage-us/kernels
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    Jun 1, 2020
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    Kagglehttp://kaggle.com/
    Authors
    Larxel
    License

    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    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

    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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    CC BY NC SA 4.0

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  4. Data from: Felonious Homicides of American Police Officers, 1977-1992

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    • s.cnmilf.com
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    Updated Mar 12, 2025
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    National Institute of Justice (2025). Felonious Homicides of American Police Officers, 1977-1992 [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/felonious-homicides-of-american-police-officers-1977-1992-25657
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    National Institute of Justicehttp://nij.ojp.gov/
    Description

    The study was a comprehensive analysis of felonious killings of officers. The purposes of the study were (1) to analyze the nature and circumstances of incidents of felonious police killings and (2) to analyze trends in the numbers and rates of killings across different types of agencies and to explain these differences. For Part 1, Incident-Level Data, an incident-level database was created to capture all incidents involving the death of a police officer from 1983 through 1992. Data on officers and incidents were collected from the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) data collection as coded by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. In addition to the UCR data, the Police Foundation also coded information from the LEOKA narratives that are not part of the computerized LEOKA database from the FBI. For Part 2, Agency-Level Data, the researchers created an agency-level database to research systematic differences among rates at which law enforcement officers had been feloniously killed from 1977 through 1992. The investigators focused on the 56 largest law enforcement agencies because of the availability of data for explanatory variables. Variables in Part 1 include year of killing, involvement of other officers, if the officer was killed with his/her own weapon, circumstances of the killing, location of fatal wounds, distance between officer and offender, if the victim was wearing body armor, if different officers were killed in the same incident, if the officer was in uniform, actions of the killer and of the officer at entry and final stage, if the killer was visible at first, if the officer thought the killer was a felon suspect, if the officer was shot at entry, and circumstances at anticipation, entry, and final stages. Demographic variables for Part 1 include victim's sex, age, race, type of assignment, rank, years of experience, agency, population group, and if the officer was working a security job. Part 2 contains variables describing the general municipal environment, such as whether the agency is located in the South, level of poverty according to a poverty index, population density, percent of population that was Hispanic or Black, and population aged 15-34 years old. Variables capturing the crime environment include the violent crime rate, property crime rate, and a gun-related crime index. Lastly, variables on the environment of the police agencies include violent and property crime arrests per 1,000 sworn officers, percentage of officers injured in assaults, and number of sworn officers.

  5. Fatal Police Shootings

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    Updated Jul 8, 2018
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    Brendan Hasz (2018). Fatal Police Shootings [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/brendanhasz/fatal-police-shootings/discussion
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    Jul 8, 2018
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    Kagglehttp://kaggle.com/
    Authors
    Brendan Hasz
    Description

    Context

    This dataset contains information about fatal shooting of civilians by police officers in the US since Jan 1st, 2015. The data about the shootings was collected by the Washington Post in their fatal police shootings dataset. The city locations were geocoded using OpenStreetMap Nominatim.

    Content

    fatal-police-shootings-data.csv contains information about each shooting. Each row is a shooting, and columns contain information about

    • Name of the individual shot
    • Date of the shooting
    • Manner of death of the individual shot
    • If and how the individual shot was armed
    • Age of the individual shot
    • Gender of the individual shot
    • Race of the individual shot
    • Whether the individual shot displayed signs of mental illness
    • To what level the individual shot was attacking when shot
    • If and how the individual shot was fleeing from police
    • If an officer present for the shooting was wearing a body camera

    CityLocations.csv contains the latitude and longitude for each city present in fatal-police-shootings-data.csv.

    Acknowledgements and Licenses

    The data in fatal-police-shootings-data.csv was collected by the Washington Post, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License.

    The data in CityLocations.csv was geocoded using OpenStreetMap Nominatim, and is licensed under the Open Database License.

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  6. Shootings

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    csv
    Updated Aug 10, 2025
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    Boston Police Department (2025). Shootings [Dataset]. https://data.boston.gov/dataset/shootings
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    csv(376), csv(2)Available download formats
    Dataset updated
    Aug 10, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Boston Police Departmenthttps://bpdnews.com/
    Description

    The Shootings dashboard contains information on shooting incidents where a victim was struck by a bullet, either fatally or non-fatally; that occurred in the City of Boston and fall under Boston Police Department jurisdiction. The dashboard does not contain records for self-inflicted gunshot wounds or shootings determined to be justifiable. Information on the incident, and the demographics of victims are included. This information is updated based on analysis conducted by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center under the Boston Police Department Bureau of Intelligence and Analysis. The data is for 2015 forward, with a 7 day rolling delay to allow for analysis and data entry to occur.

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    NYPD Shooting Incident Data (Year To Date)

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    • data.cityofnewyork.us
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    Updated Apr 19, 2025
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    data.cityofnewyork.us (2025). NYPD Shooting Incident Data (Year To Date) [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/nypd-shooting-incident-data-year-to-date
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    Apr 19, 2025
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    data.cityofnewyork.us
    Description

    List of every shooting incident that occurred in NYC during the current calendar year. This is a breakdown of every shooting incident that occurred in NYC during the current calendar year. This data is manually extracted every quarter and reviewed by the Office of Management Analysis and Planning before being posted on the NYPD website. Each record represents a shooting incident in NYC and includes information about the event, the location and time of occurrence. In addition, information related to suspect and victim demographics is also included. This data can be used by the public to explore the nature of police enforcement activity. Please refer to the attached data footnotes for additional information about this dataset.

  8. f

    Fatal Police Violence

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    Updated Mar 5, 2024
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    RN Uma; Alade Tokuta; Rebecca Zulli Lowe; Adrienne Smith (2024). Fatal Police Violence [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12946988.v5
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    Dataset updated
    Mar 5, 2024
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    figshare
    Authors
    RN Uma; Alade Tokuta; Rebecca Zulli Lowe; Adrienne Smith
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    Police killings dataset (not just shooting, but by any means) is from https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ that covers the period 2013-2023. This includes the Washington Post (WaPo) dataset on shooting victims.The curated datasets are included here along with a research question and guiding questions.See the codebook for full details.

  9. Fatal Police Shootings, 2015-Present

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    Updated Mar 10, 2017
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    The Washington Post (2017). Fatal Police Shootings, 2015-Present [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/washingtonpost/police-shootings/data
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    Mar 10, 2017
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    Kaggle
    Authors
    The Washington Post
    License

    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    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 January 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 victim 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 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, Missouri, 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.

    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, send us an email at policeshootingsfeedback@washpost.com.

    CREDITS
    Research and Reporting: Julie Tate, Jennifer Jenkins and Steven Rich
    Production and Presentation: John Muyskens, Kennedy Elliott and Ted Mellnik

  10. C

    Violence Reduction - Victim Demographics - Aggregated

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    csv, xlsx, xml
    Updated Aug 18, 2025
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    City of Chicago (2025). Violence Reduction - Victim Demographics - Aggregated [Dataset]. https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Violence-Reduction-Victim-Demographics-Aggregated/gj7a-742p
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    Dataset updated
    Aug 18, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    City of Chicago
    Description

    This dataset contains aggregate data on violent index victimizations at the quarter level of each year (i.e., January – March, April – June, July – September, October – December), from 2001 to the present (1991 to present for Homicides), with a focus on those related to gun violence. Index crimes are 10 crime types selected by the FBI (codes 1-4) for special focus due to their seriousness and frequency. This dataset includes only those index crimes that involve bodily harm or the threat of bodily harm and are reported to the Chicago Police Department (CPD). Each row is aggregated up to victimization type, age group, sex, race, and whether the victimization was domestic-related. Aggregating at the quarter level provides large enough blocks of incidents to protect anonymity while allowing the end user to observe inter-year and intra-year variation. Any row where there were fewer than three incidents during a given quarter has been deleted to help prevent re-identification of victims. For example, if there were three domestic criminal sexual assaults during January to March 2020, all victims associated with those incidents have been removed from this dataset. Human trafficking victimizations have been aggregated separately due to the extremely small number of victimizations.

    This dataset includes a " GUNSHOT_INJURY_I " column to indicate whether the victimization involved a shooting, showing either Yes ("Y"), No ("N"), or Unknown ("UKNOWN.") For homicides, injury descriptions are available dating back to 1991, so the "shooting" column will read either "Y" or "N" to indicate whether the homicide was a fatal shooting or not. For non-fatal shootings, data is only available as of 2010. As a result, for any non-fatal shootings that occurred from 2010 to the present, the shooting column will read as “Y.” Non-fatal shooting victims will not be included in this dataset prior to 2010; they will be included in the authorized dataset, but with "UNKNOWN" in the shooting column.

    The dataset is refreshed daily, but excludes the most recent complete day to allow CPD time to gather the best available information. Each time the dataset is refreshed, records can change as CPD learns more about each victimization, especially those victimizations that are most recent. The data on the Mayor's Office Violence Reduction Dashboard is updated daily with an approximately 48-hour lag. As cases are passed from the initial reporting officer to the investigating detectives, some recorded data about incidents and victimizations may change once additional information arises. Regularly updated datasets on the City's public portal may change to reflect new or corrected information.

    How does this dataset classify victims?

    The methodology by which this dataset classifies victims of violent crime differs by victimization type:

    Homicide and non-fatal shooting victims: A victimization is considered a homicide victimization or non-fatal shooting victimization depending on its presence in CPD's homicide victims data table or its shooting victims data table. A victimization is considered a homicide only if it is present in CPD's homicide data table, while a victimization is considered a non-fatal shooting only if it is present in CPD's shooting data tables and absent from CPD's homicide data table.

    To determine the IUCR code of homicide and non-fatal shooting victimizations, we defer to the incident IUCR code available in CPD's Crimes, 2001-present dataset (available on the City's open data portal). If the IUCR code in CPD's Crimes dataset is inconsistent with the homicide/non-fatal shooting categorization, we defer to CPD's Victims dataset.

    For a criminal homicide, the only sensible IUCR codes are 0110 (first-degree murder) or 0130 (second-degree murder). For a non-fatal shooting, a sensible IUCR code must signify a criminal sexual assault, a robbery, or, most commonly, an aggravated battery. In rare instances, the IUCR code in CPD's Crimes and Victims dataset do not align with the homicide/non-fatal shooting categorization:

    1. In instances where a homicide victimization does not correspond to an IUCR code 0110 or 0130, we set the IUCR code to "01XX" to indicate that the victimization was a homicide but we do not know whether it was a first-degree murder (IUCR code = 0110) or a second-degree murder (IUCR code = 0130).
    2. When a non-fatal shooting victimization does not correspond to an IUCR code that signifies a criminal sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated battery, we enter “UNK” in the IUCR column, “YES” in the GUNSHOT_I column, and “NON-FATAL” in the PRIMARY column to indicate that the victim was non-fatally shot, but the precise IUCR code is unknown.

    Other violent crime victims: For other violent crime types, we refer to the IUCR classification that exists in CPD's victim table, with only one exception:

    1. When there is an incident that is associated with no victim with a matching IUCR code, we assume that this is an error. Every crime should have at least 1 victim with a matching IUCR code. In these cases, we change the IUCR code to reflect the incident IUCR code because CPD's incident table is considered to be more reliable than the victim table.

    Note: All businesses identified as victims in CPD data have been removed from this dataset.

    Note: The definition of “homicide” (shooting or otherwise) does not include justifiable homicide or involuntary manslaughter. This dataset also excludes any cases that CPD considers to be “unfounded” or “noncriminal.”

    Note: In some instances, the police department's raw incident-level data and victim-level data that were inputs into this dataset do not align on the type of crime that occurred. In those instances, this dataset attempts to correct mismatches between incident and victim specific crime types. When it is not possible to determine which victims are associated with the most recent crime determination, the dataset will show empty cells in the respective demographic fields (age, sex, race, etc.).

    Note: The initial reporting officer usually asks victims to report demographic data. If victims are unable to recall, the reporting officer will use their best judgment. “Unknown” can be reported if it is truly unknown.

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    ‘🚓 Fatal Police Shootings’ analyzed by Analyst-2

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    Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai) / Inspirient GmbH (inspirient.com), ‘🚓 Fatal Police Shootings’ analyzed by Analyst-2 [Dataset]. https://analyst-2.ai/analysis/kaggle-fatal-police-shootings-fdc5/8b11e8dc/?iid=015-746&v=presentation
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    Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai) / Inspirient GmbH (inspirient.com)
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    Analysis of ‘🚓 Fatal Police Shootings’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/yamqwe/fatal-police-shootingse on 13 February 2022.

    --- Dataset description provided by original source is as follows ---

    About this dataset

    The Washington Post has tracked fatal police shootings in the US since 2015, using news and police reports as well as social media and databases like Killed by Police and Fatal Encounters.

    The collected data include the race, gender, and age of the deceased, the circumstances of the shooting, and whether the person was armed or experiencing a mental-health crisis.

    The Washington Post updates visualizations of the data and provides more information about methodology on the Fatal Force page.

    Source: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
    Updated: synced daily
    License: CC BY-NC-SA

    This dataset was created by Data Society and contains around 7000 samples along with Is Geocoding Exact, Armed, technical information and other features such as: - Body Camera - State - and more.

    How to use this dataset

    • Analyze Latitude in relation to Manner Of Death
    • Study the influence of Name on Age
    • More datasets

    Acknowledgements

    If you use this dataset in your research, please credit Data Society

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    --- Original source retains full ownership of the source dataset ---

  12. Fatal US Police Shootings Data

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    Updated Sep 14, 2020
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    Anderson Or (2020). Fatal US Police Shootings Data [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/andersonor/fatal-police-shootings-data/tasks
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    Kagglehttp://kaggle.com/
    Authors
    Anderson Or
    License

    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Context

    The Washington Post's database contains records of every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty since Jan. 1, 2015. I did not create the data, all credits to The Washington Post. Here is the link: Washington Post link

    Content

    The data included all the police shooting in the US from January 1, 2015, to September 7, 2020.

    Inspiration

    Have fun with the data and try to find any insights!

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    Violence Reduction - Victims of Homicides and Non-Fatal Shootings

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    • data.cityofchicago.org
    Updated Aug 11, 2025
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    data.cityofchicago.org (2025). Violence Reduction - Victims of Homicides and Non-Fatal Shootings [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/violence-reduction-victims-of-homicides-and-non-fatal-shootings
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    Aug 11, 2025
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    data.cityofchicago.org
    Description

    This dataset contains individual-level homicide and non-fatal shooting victimizations, including homicide data from 1991 to the present, and non-fatal shooting data from 2010 to the present (2010 is the earliest available year for shooting data). This dataset includes a "GUNSHOT_INJURY_I " column to indicate whether the victimization involved a shooting, showing either Yes ("Y"), No ("N"), or Unknown ("UKNOWN.") For homicides, injury descriptions are available dating back to 1991, so the "shooting" column will read either "Y" or "N" to indicate whether the homicide was a fatal shooting or not. For non-fatal shootings, data is only available as of 2010. As a result, for any non-fatal shootings that occurred from 2010 to the present, the shooting column will read as “Y.” Non-fatal shooting victims will not be included in this dataset prior to 2010; they will be included in the authorized-access dataset, but with "UNKNOWN" in the shooting column. Each row represents a single victimization, i.e., a unique event when an individual became the victim of a homicide or non-fatal shooting. Each row does not represent a unique victim—if someone is victimized multiple times there will be multiple rows for each of those distinct events. The dataset is refreshed daily, but excludes the most recent complete day to allow the Chicago Police Department (CPD) time to gather the best available information. Each time the dataset is refreshed, records can change as CPD learns more about each victimization, especially those victimizations that are most recent. The data on the Mayor's Office Violence Reduction Dashboard is updated daily with an approximately 48-hour lag. As cases are passed from the initial reporting officer to the investigating detectives, some recorded data about incidents and victimizations may change once additional information arises. Regularly updated datasets on the City's public portal may change to reflect new or corrected information. A version of this dataset with additional crime types is available by request. To make a request, please email dataportal@cityofchicago.org with the subject line: Violence Reduction Victims Access Request. Access will require an account on this site, which you may create at https://data.cityofchicago.org/signup. How does this dataset classify victims? The methodology by which this dataset classifies victims of violent crime differs by victimization type: Homicide and non-fatal shooting victims: A victimization is considered a homicide victimization or non-fatal shooting victimization depending on its presence in CPD's homicide victims data table or its shooting victims data table. A victimization is considered a homicide only if it is present in CPD's homicide data table, while a victimization is considered a non-fatal shooting only if it is present in CPD's shooting data tables and absent from CPD's homicide data table. To determine the IUCR code of homicide and non-fatal shooting victimizations, we defer to the incident IUCR code available in CPD's Crimes, 2001-present dataset (available on the City's open data portal). If the IUCR code in CPD's Crimes dataset is inconsistent with the homicide/non-fatal shooting categorization, we defer to CPD's Victims dataset. For a criminal homicide, the only sensible IUCR codes are 0110 (first-degree murder) or 0130 (second-degree murder). For a non-fatal shooting, a sensible IUCR code must signify a criminal sexual assault, a robbery, or, most commonly, an aggravated battery. In rare instances, the IUCR code in CPD's Crimes and Victims dataset do not align with the homicide/non-fatal shooting categorization: In instances where a homicide victimization does not correspond to an IUCR code 0110 or 0130, we set the IUCR code to "01XX" to indicate that the victimization was a homicide but we do not know whether it was a fi

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    ‘US Police Shootings’ analyzed by Analyst-2

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    Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai) / Inspirient GmbH (inspirient.com), ‘US Police Shootings’ analyzed by Analyst-2 [Dataset]. https://analyst-2.ai/analysis/kaggle-us-police-shootings-bef9/06301fe4/?iid=009-732&v=presentation
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    Dataset authored and provided by
    Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai) / Inspirient GmbH (inspirient.com)
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Analysis of ‘US Police Shootings’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/ahsen1330/us-police-shootings on 28 January 2022.

    --- Dataset description provided by original source is as follows ---

    Context

    In the recent killings, a hot topic came into being, "Racism". So, I chose to gather some data to take out some insights and analyze the story around racism in America. I downloaded the raw data from kaggle and prepared it for visualization while correcting values, handling missing content, normalization and categorization

    Content

    It contains basic data about people like their name, age, gender and race. Along with it, is the shooting/killing information, like date of event, where it happened? how they were shot? did they attack? Were they holding weapons? Did they show any mental illness? Was the policeman wearing a camera/was the incident recorded? Did the suspect flee? Apart from that, a category column holds type of weapon used by the suspect

    Acknowledgements

    Kagglers

    --- Original source retains full ownership of the source dataset ---

  15. The Counted: Killed by Police, 2015-2016

    • kaggle.com
    Updated Jan 7, 2017
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    The Guardian (2017). The Counted: Killed by Police, 2015-2016 [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/forums/f/2304/the-counted-killed-by-police-2015-2016
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    CroissantCroissant is a format for machine-learning datasets. Learn more about this at mlcommons.org/croissant.
    Dataset updated
    Jan 7, 2017
    Dataset provided by
    Kaggle
    Authors
    The Guardian
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    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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    Description

    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

  16. US Police Shootings

    • kaggle.com
    Updated Jul 30, 2020
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    Ahsen Nazir (2020). US Police Shootings [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/ahsen1330/us-police-shootings/notebooks
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    CroissantCroissant is a format for machine-learning datasets. Learn more about this at mlcommons.org/croissant.
    Dataset updated
    Jul 30, 2020
    Dataset provided by
    Kaggle
    Authors
    Ahsen Nazir
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    Context

    In the recent killings, a hot topic came into being, "Racism". So, I chose to gather some data to take out some insights and analyze the story around racism in America. I downloaded the raw data from kaggle and prepared it for visualization while correcting values, handling missing content, normalization and categorization

    Content

    It contains basic data about people like their name, age, gender and race. Along with it, is the shooting/killing information, like date of event, where it happened? how they were shot? did they attack? Were they holding weapons? Did they show any mental illness? Was the policeman wearing a camera/was the incident recorded? Did the suspect flee? Apart from that, a category column holds type of weapon used by the suspect

    Acknowledgements

    Kagglers

  17. Police personnel and selected crime statistics

    • www150.statcan.gc.ca
    • datasets.ai
    • +1more
    Updated Mar 26, 2024
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    Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2024). Police personnel and selected crime statistics [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.25318/3510007601-eng
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    Dataset updated
    Mar 26, 2024
    Dataset provided by
    Government of Canadahttp://www.gg.ca/
    Statistics Canadahttps://statcan.gc.ca/en
    Area covered
    Canada
    Description

    Data on police personnel (police officers by gender, civilian and other personnel), police-civilian ratio, police officers and authorized strength per 100,000 population, authorized police officer strength and selected crime statistics. Data is provided for Canada, provinces, territories and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) headquarters, training academy depot division and forensic labs, 1986 to 2023.

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    SPD Officer Involved Shooting (OIS) Data

    • data.seattle.gov
    • seattle.gov
    • +2more
    application/rdfxml +5
    Updated Mar 19, 2025
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    City of Seattle (2025). SPD Officer Involved Shooting (OIS) Data [Dataset]. https://data.seattle.gov/w/mg5r-efcm/2myu-6xk5?cur=NEVTCdjWLs8&from=ImIGBeiLrwh
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    xml, csv, json, tsv, application/rdfxml, application/rssxmlAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Mar 19, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    City of Seattle
    License

    U.S. Government Workshttps://www.usa.gov/government-works
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    Records of Officer Involved Shootings (OIS) from 2005 to the present, including a brief narrative synopsis. Beginning in Q3 2023, the summary will be replaced with a link to the FRB findings documented, prepared for public release. A link for each OIS will be embedded in the file. Data set does not contain records from active investigations. Data is visualized in a dashboard on the SPD public site (https://www.seattle.gov/police/information-and-data/use-of-force-data/officer-involved-shootings-dashboard), please reference as a guide for use. Dashboard is available for download.

    Updates are posted twice a year (January and July), as cases complete the inquest process (https://kingcounty.gov/services/inquest-program.aspx).

    Use of force data also available here: https://data.seattle.gov/Public-Safety/Use-Of-Force/ppi5-g2bj and is updated daily. Data includes Type III - OIS.

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    CPD Reported Shootings

    • data.cincinnati-oh.gov
    csv, xlsx, xml
    Updated Aug 5, 2025
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    City of Cincinnati (2025). CPD Reported Shootings [Dataset]. https://data.cincinnati-oh.gov/Safety/CPD-Reported-Shootings/sfea-4ksu
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    xlsx, csv, xmlAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Aug 5, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    City of Cincinnati
    License

    U.S. Government Workshttps://www.usa.gov/government-works
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    Data Description: This dataset captures confirmed shooting events in the City of Cincinnati. Shootings events are captured in the Computer Aided Dispatch System (CAD), and are ultimately stored in the City's Records Management System (RMS).

    No personal or identifying (or otherwise sensitive) victim or suspect information is included in this data set.

    Data Creation: This data is created through the City’s computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system.

    Data Created By: The source of this data is the Cincinnati Police Department.

    Refresh Frequency: This data is updated daily.

    CincyInsights: The City of Cincinnati maintains an interactive dashboard portal, CincyInsights in addition to our Open Data in an effort to increase access and usage of city data. This data set has an associated dashboard available here: https://insights.cincinnati-oh.gov/stories/s/xw7t-5phj

    Data Dictionary: A data dictionary providing definitions of columns and attributes is available as an attachment to this dataset.

    Processing: The City of Cincinnati is committed to providing the most granular and accurate data possible. In that pursuit the Office of Performance and Data Analytics facilitates standard processing to most raw data prior to publication. Processing includes but is not limited: address verification, geocoding, decoding attributes, and addition of administrative areas (i.e. Census, neighborhoods, police districts, etc.).

    Data Usage: For directions on downloading and using open data please visit our How-to Guide: https://data.cincinnati-oh.gov/dataset/Open-Data-How-To-Guide/gdr9-g3ad

    Disclaimer: In compliance with privacy laws, all Public Safety datasets are anonymized and appropriately redacted prior to publication on the City of Cincinnati’s Open Data Portal. This means that for all public safety datasets: Latitude and Longitude have been randomly skewed to represent values within the same block area (but not the exact location) of the incident.

  20. Dallas Police Officer-Involved Shootings

    • dallaspolice.net
    • dallasopendata.com
    • +2more
    application/rdfxml +5
    Updated Mar 7, 2023
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    Dallas Police Department (2023). Dallas Police Officer-Involved Shootings [Dataset]. https://dallaspolice.net/reports/Pages/Officer-involved-shootings-data.aspx
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    csv, json, application/rdfxml, tsv, application/rssxml, xmlAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Mar 7, 2023
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Dallas Police Departmenthttp://dallaspolice.net/
    License

    Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By) v1.0https://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    Dallas Police Public Data - Officer Involved Shootings City Of Dallas

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Statista (2025). People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2024, by race [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
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People shot to death by U.S. police 2017-2024, by race

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Dataset updated
May 27, 2025
Dataset authored and provided by
Statistahttp://statista.com/
Area covered
United States
Description

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.

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