Intro

For a long time police around the country have had a bad reputation with abusing their power. This does not exclude Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). One way police are abusing their power is by being quick at shooting people. There has been problems with police offices, who classify themselves as White, shooting people, who classify themselves as Black. There has been a problem with African Americans having a higher percentage of getting shot by police officers. The problem has been so rampant that organization like black lives matter have been created to deal with this issue.

The problem has been so rampant that body cameras have been introduce to police officers so they can be accountable for their actions. There has been incidents where the suspect have been beat up and the police have said it was for self defense. The same self defense justification has been use in the shootings of many civilians.

Where is the data coming from?
The Data is coming from Los Angeles County Open Data. The website is: https://data.lacounty.gov/. The name of the file is: All_Shooting_Incidents_for_Deputy_Involved_Shootings_2010_to_Present. According to the lacounty website, the last time the data was updated was January 2, 2020.

Descriptive Statistics

There has been a total of 692 entries (recorded police shootings) from 2010 to 2020. That’s a 10 year expand which equals to 3,650 days or 521 weeks. That is a rate of 0.189 shootings per day or 1.328 shootings per week. Not all the police shootings have been hits. There has been a total of 451 hits including animal shootings.

The highest amount of shooting incident type is hit shootings with 240 cases. Second place is animal shootings with 211 incidents.

The city of Los Angeles has the highest amount of shootings with 138 incidents. That is almost double of any other city in Los Angeles County. Compton comes in second with 85 shooting incidents.

The station with the highest amount of shooting is Compton Station with 71 shooting cases. Fallow by Century Station with 65 shooting cases.

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Data Table

Table by Incident Type

There are only six types of causes the police officer can shoot their good. This is according to the data provided.

Table by City

Table by Station

Table by Year

Handling Unit Histogram

Incident Type Histogram

City Histogram