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We aren’t offering any judgment on whether these actions were necessary or unnecessary. The objective is to record every fatal incident and explain what happened, so that people (and police, and policymakers) can better appreciate the scale of what is happening.
Jon Swaine, Reporter, in Reddit AMA
The Counted is a project to create the most comprehensive database of fatal police violence in America in 2015. The US government does not have a complete record of people killed by law enforcement. This information is essential for informed public discourse on the use of deadly force by police, especially in light of the intense national debate following the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Rekia Boyd, and others. The Counted already reveals drastic underreporting in the FBI count of police killings, and disparities in the percentage of unarmed Black and white Americans killed by police.
Guardian reporters pull data from police reports, local governments, news and research organizations, and open-source reporting projects. The Counted also encourages crowdsourced accounts from witnesses, who can contact reporters and send files anonymously.
Robeson.Daniel
Success is a simple matter that is repeated over and over again
Joe Reynolds
Please can you find the data from the ealier years? If this information is essential for informed public discourse on the use of deadly force by police,There must be data further back.
Michael E Owens
When our soldiers are in a foriegn land at war they still have enough respect for human life that they will not fire unless fired upon. This takes true bravery. Why cant our police give american citizens the same respect? Because they are cowards and have no value for himan life wheather it be old, young, infant, man, woman or the handicapped.
Tina
We need one for the underreporting of injuries at schools not students only but the staff especially in Florida