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Police Homicides
Description
The lack of an official database covering all police officer-involved homicides makes it quasi impossible to gather accurate numbers and statistics on a national level.
This website is an attempt to look at the media landscape and the news reports on each police officer-involved homicide in the United States.
Relevant reports and collections
  • Arrest-Related Deaths: Data Quality Profile (2015) - Bureau of Justice Statistics
  • Arrest-Related Deaths (2003-2009) - Bureau of Justice Statistics
  • FBI's Supplementary Homicide Report
  • Mapping Police Violence
  • Fatal Encounters
  • List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States - Wikipedia
  • National Police Misconduct Reporting Project - The Cato Institute
  • LA Times Homicide Report
    • About the news reports
    The data stems from KilledByPolice.net and includes "corporate news reports of people killed by nonmilitary law enforcement officers, whether in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. Inclusion implies neither wrongdoing nor justification on the part of the person killed or the officer involved. The post merely documents the occurrence of a death."
    Contact
    Daniel Schwarz
    @_dschwarz
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