Police Shootings JSON File
From the CORGIS Dataset Project
By Dennis Kafura (kafura@vt.edu), Joung Min Choi, Bo Guan
Version 0.0.2, created 9/15/2021
Tags: violence, crime, violent, police, shootings, race, location, time
Overview
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/how-the-washington-post-is-examining-police-shootings-in-the-united-states/2016/07/07/d9c52238-43ad-11e6-8856-f26de2537a9d_story.html
https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
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Key Descriptions
| Key | List of... | Comment | Example Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Person.Name | String | Full name of the individual or "Unknown" if not reported | "Tim Elliot" |
| Person.Age | Integer | Age in years of the individual or 0 (zero) if not reported | 53 |
| Person.Gender | String | One of Male, Female, or Unknown | "Male" |
| Person.Race | String | One of Asian, African American, White, Hispanic, Native American, Other, or Unknown. | "Asian" |
| Incident.Date.Month | Integer | Month (1-12) in which the shooting occurred | 1 |
| Incident.Date.Day | Integer | Day (1-31) in which the shooting occurred | 2 |
| Incident.Date.Year | Integer | Year (2015-2019) in which the shooting occurred | 2015 |
| Incident.Date.Full | String | Date in which shooting occurred (Year/Month/Day) | "2015/01/02" |
| Incident.Location.City | String | Name of city in which the shooting occurred | "Shelton" |
| Incident.Location.State | String | Name of U.S. State in which the shooting occurred | "WA" |
| Factors.Armed | String | Description of any weapon carried by the person (.e., "gun", "knife", "unarmed"); value is "unknown" if not reported. | "gun" |
| Factors.Mental-Illness | Boolean | True if factors of mental illness were perceived in the person; False otherwise | True |
| Factors.Threat-Level | String | Threat of person as perceived by police. One of "attack", "undetermined", or "other"; value is "unknown" if not reported. | "attack" |
| Factors.Fleeing | String | Means by which person was fleeing (e.g., "Car", "Foot") or "Not fleeing"; value is "unknown" if not reported. | "Not fleeing" |
| Shooting.Manner | String | Manner of person's death: one of "shot" or "shot and Tasered". | "shot" |
| Shooting.Body-Camera | Boolean | True if police body camera recorded incident; False otherwise. | True |