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"As many of you know, I’ve been working on a large project with a multi-disciplinary team at the University of Southern California. The results are the National Officer-Involved Homicide Database and are available for download. You’ve got to sign the agreements to download. Just click the USC logo. Check out the codebook. It’s amazing."

"June 18, 2020: Let me say this clearly because I’m spending way too much time on social media explaining what we do, and it distracts from the actual collection of the data: We try to document all deaths that happen when police are present or that are caused by police: on-duty, off-duty, criminal, line-of-duty, local, federal, intentional, accidental–all of them. We enable people to filter out the deaths that they aren’t interested in examining. There is at least one team that is only analyzing the police-related suicides. There’s another group that only studies teenagers who die during police pursuits. The idea is that the data is here for anyone who needs it for whatever reason they want it. Also, please kick in. We make the data free for everyone, but it’s not free to collect. If you think the work is not important, remember, people believed the government assertions that fewer than 400 people annually were killed during police actions until Fatal Encounters proved otherwise."

"Users of this website should be aware that not much about the Fatal Encounters project happens on the website. We’re researchers, not bloggers. It’s primarily a delivery method for the data on the Google Spreadsheet that’s linked to below. It’s also great for professional and more informal researchers to download smaller datasets. Just go here, make your selections, and then explore the results or click the button to download a spreadsheet."

"The main Google Sheet is available for download right here. Just go under File > Download as > pick a format. We recommend downloading as csv. It wouldn’t hurt any to read our caveats here.  A quick word about the data: At over 30,000 records, it’s tempting to consider this a comprehensive dataset. It’s not. While we completed the systematic states-by-year searches of the United States on November 3, 2017, we know we’ve missed some. This set was never intended to do anything except identify the names, demographic information, dates and locales of the dead and to give us direction for categories that needed further research. It is our intention to go deeper in areas we’ve identified, but this is still a first draft. The next upgrade will include “threat assessment” columns, including Armed/Unarmed, Alleged weapon, Physical movement, Fleeing/Not fleeing. We’ll continue to do the weekly updates (at minimum, although its usually more like six time a week). If this dataset falls short of your expectations in any way, contact your representatives. Local, state and federal agencies don’t require collection of complete data regarding the numbers and characteristics of people their employees kill because they don’t want citizens to have access to transparent and verifiable data. The State’s reasons for this are opaque."

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