Researching Police Reform

Data on police shootings sourced from the three largest, most comprehensive and impartial crowdsourced databases on police killings in the country: FatalEncounters.org, the U.S. Police Shootings Database and KilledbyPolice.net, with extensive original research to further improve the quality and completeness of the data; searching social media, obituaries, criminal records databases, police reports and other sources to identify the race of 91 percent of all victims in the database.

Article explains the problems with previous methods of collecting data on police shootings.

Gathers definitions and statistical reports that touch on use of force by police.

Copies of police Use of Force policies of the 100 largest U.S. city police departments gathered using Freedom of Information Act requests.