The Washington Post has been tracking details about police killings since Jan 1, 2015. This includes the race, age, gender, whether the person was armed, and whether the victim had a mental-health crisis. The Washington Post has gather this information from law enforcement websites, local news reports, social media, and by monitoring independent databases.
Combined with 4 additional datasets on:
- Poverty rate
- High school graduation rate
- Median household income, and
- Racial demographics
This project analyses and visualizes the available data and answer questions such as:
- Are the police killings random? or do they tend to happen to certain demographics?
- Where did most fatalities occurred?
- The trend of the killings over time, are they improving?