Context This dataset contains information about fatal shooting of civilians by police officers in the US since Jan 1st, 2015. The data about the shootings was collected by the Washington Post in their [fatal police shootings dataset](https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings). The city locations were geocoded using [OpenStreetMap Nominatim](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim). Content `fatal-police-shootings-data.csv` contains information about each shooting. Each row is a shooting, and columns contain information about - Name of the individual shot - Date of the shooting - Manner of death of the individual shot - If and how the individual shot was armed - Age of the individual shot - Gender of the individual shot - Race of the individual shot - Whether the individual shot displayed signs of mental illness - To what level the individual shot was attacking when shot - If and how the individual shot was fleeing from police - If an officer present for the shooting was wearing a body camera `CityLocations.csv` contains the latitude and longitude for each city present in `fatal-police-shootings-data.csv`. Acknowledgements and Licenses The data in `fatal-police-shootings-data.csv` was [collected by the Washington Post](https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings), and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License. The data in `CityLocations.csv` was geocoded using [OpenStreetMap Nominatim](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim), and is licensed under the [Open Database License](http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Cover image by [Spenser](https://unsplash.com/@spensewithans).