Where Police Have Killed Americans In 2015 — police_killings • fivethirtyeight

The raw data behind the story "Where Police Have Killed Americans In 2015" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/where-police-have-killed-americans-in-2015.

police_killings

Format

A data frame with 467 rows representing People who died from interactions with police and 34 variables:

name: Name of deceased
age: Age of deceased
gender: Gender of deceased
raceethnicity: Race/ethnicity of deceased
month: Month of killing
day: Day of incident
year: Year of incident
streetaddress: Address/intersection where incident occurred
city: City where incident occurred
state: State where incident occurred
latitude: Latitude, geocoded from address
longitude: Longitude, geocoded from address
state_fp: State FIPS code
county_fp: County FIPS code
tract_ce: Tract ID code
geo_id: Combined tract ID code
county_id: Combined county ID code
namelsad: Tract description
lawenforcementagency: Agency involved in incident
cause: Cause of death
armed: How/whether deceased was armed
pop: Tract population
share_white: Share of pop that is non-Hispanic white
share_black: Share of pop that is black (alone, not in combination)
share_hispanic: Share of pop that is Hispanic/Latino (any race)
p_income: Tract-level median personal income
h_income: Tract-level median household income
county_income: County-level median household income
comp_income: `h_income` / `county_income`
county_bucket: Household income, quintile within county
nat_bucket: Household income, quintile nationally
pov: Tract-level poverty rate (official)
urate: Tract-level unemployment rate
college: Share of 25+ pop with BA or higher

Source

See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/police-killings