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The Washington Post is compiling a database of every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty since January 1, 2015 and has made that database publicly available on GitHub. Their own visualizations and reporting are online here, and this dashboard presents the same data. The Washington Post’s database does not include deaths of people in police custody, fatal shootings by off-duty officers, or non-shooting deaths.

This dashboard presents these fatal police shootings unadjusted for population demographics. For example, black individuals make up about 13% of the U.S. population but about 25% of these fatal police shootings. Hispanic individuals are represented at about their U.S. population level, and Asian and white people are underrepresented compared to their U.S. population levels.