Race, Policing, and Protest in 2020

Black people were 24% of those killed despite being only 13% of the population. There were only 27 days in 2019 where police did not kill someone. Mapping Police Violence is a research collaborative collecting comprehensive data on police killings nationwide to quantify the impact of police violence in communities.

Find statistics and surveys related to law enforcement.

Find information on housing and development related to these topics.

Many links to raw data and how to think about using statistics in reporting.

FBI Data Differs from Local Counts on Justifiable Homicides (a word of caution on using federal stats for accuracy).