# washingtonpost/data-police-shootings

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 2015.

Repository: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/data-police-shootings
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-06-17T21:54:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 35/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 27, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4082, "days_push": 442, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1142, forks 510 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:44.718245+00:00)

## What it is
A continuously updated dataset compiled by The Washington Post documenting every fatal police shooting in the United States since 2015, including victim demographics, circumstances, and involved law enforcement agencies. It is published in two schema versions (v1 and v2) as CSV data files with documentation.

## Use cases
- analyze trends in fatal police shootings over time
- study racial disparities in police-involved killings
- research police accountability at the department level
- build visualizations of police violence data
- compare federal statistics with independent counts of fatal shootings
- support journalism or academic research on law enforcement use of force

## When to choose
- you need a comprehensive, independently verified record of US fatal police shootings since 2015
- you want structured CSV data with documented schema for analysis
- you need agency-level attribution for accountability research

## When to avoid
- you need data on deaths in police custody or non-shooting fatalities
- you need real-time incident data with no reporting lag
- you need data outside the United States

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: data-science, analytics
- domain: data-science, analytics, legal, social-media
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: police-shootings, open-data, journalism, csv, washington-post, public-safety, united-states

## Member repositories
- washingtonpost/data-police-shootings (main) score 35

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:44.718245+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:35:17.101412+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:44.718245+00:00, sha dcdfed5d298d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.