shootings: People shot by US police (2015-2019)
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shootings

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People shot by US police (2015-2019)

Description

This data comes from the book Crime by the Numbers: A Criminologist’s Guide to R, which compiles multiple data sets from the FBI Uniform Crime Report. Variables included here contain information on shooting victims of US police between 2015 and 2019.

Usage

shootings

Format

A tibble with 4371 observations and 13 variables:

name: character variable for name of shooting victim
date: date variable for date of shooting
state: character variable for state in which shooting took place
city: character variable for city in which shooting took place
manner_of_death: character variable for manner of death
weapon: character variable for weapon used by shooting victim
age: integer variable for age of shooting victim
gender: character variable for gender of shooting victim
race: character variable for race of shootings victim
mental_illness_signs: character variable indicating whether shooting victim showed signs of mental illness
threat_level: character level for tyoe of threat posed by shooting victim
flee: character variable indicating whether shooting victim tried to flee
body_camera: character variable indicating whether police officer involved carried a body camera