washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
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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 2015.
14 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2016-01-06 · latest 2024-08-26
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…in 2020. https://247wallst.com/special-report/2020/10/05/cities-where... More recent data here: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
comment by thyrsus · 2024-08-26 · in Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off -
…database maintained by the Washington post seem incomplete (the one about fatal police shootings) https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings/tree...
comment by ijhuygft776 · 2024-01-13 · in People have been buried behind a Mississippi jail since 2016, attorney says -
It happens daily in the US... and they also shoot a lot of people: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings (about 1000 per year)... I would love to have a source with all killings by police (not just shootings).... I bet it…
comment by tormock · 2022-03-20 · in Arizona moves to ban recording video of police -
…US kill a lot more citizens then citizens kill cops ... (talking strictly about gun fire victims) https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
comment by EastOfTruth · 2021-10-23 · in Chicago grapples with police vaccine revolt -
…by police each year (edit: in the US)... and that don't include chockings and other murder methods: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
comment by EastOfTruth · 2021-10-01 · in Deaf Man Who Couldn't Hear Police Commands Was Tased and Spent 4 Months in Jail -
works for me... loaded this file no problem: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings/blob...
comment by coronadisaster · 2020-06-29 · in GitHub was down -
And the police killed nearly 6,000 people in the U.S. since 2015, without due process: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings/blob... (that equals to about 3 per day, I am surprised that I don't hear more about them)
comment by coronadisaster · 2020-05-21 · in The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning -
…possible that if you count all killings the data is different. Can you share your data source? [1] https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
comment by pg314 · 2018-01-28 · in ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US -
The data is available in CSV format on GitHub: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
comment by jmuyskens · 2016-01-06 · in Investigation: Police Shootings -
…like to download and check out our data, we are making it available in a repository on GitHub: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
comment by jmuyskens · 2016-01-06 · in Investigation: Police Shootings -
FWIW (a alot, IMHO), here is the Github account for the data: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings Seems like no big deal but with the commit history, we basically have a record and frequency count of how, in a major…
comment by danso · 2016-01-06 · in Investigation: Police Shootings