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fatal encounters a step toward creating an impartial comprehensive and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with police skip to content menu home posts donate tools report errors omissions visualizations our visualizations crowd visualizations download complete dataset search the database public records tool memorial pages friends of bones about about me methodology why fe exists fatal encounters in the news privacy policy menu home posts donate tools report errors omissions visualizations our visualizations crowd visualizations download complete dataset search the database public records tool memorial pages friends of bones about about me methodology why fe exists fatal encounters in the news privacy policy fatal encounters a step toward creating an impartial comprehensive and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with police home search database download fe database data visualizations new as many of you know i ve been working on a large project with a multi disciplinary team at the university of southern california the results are the national officer involved homicide database and are available for download you ve got to sign the agreements to download just click the usc logo check out the codebook it s amazing june 18 2020 let me say this clearly because i m spending way too much time on social media explaining what we do and it distracts from the actual collection of the data we try to document all deaths that happen when police are present or that are caused by police on duty off duty criminal line of duty local federal intentional accidental all of them we enable people to filter out the deaths that they aren t interested in examining there is at least one team that is only analyzing the police related suicides there s another group that only studies teenagers who die during police pursuits the idea is that the data is here for anyone who needs it for whatever reason they want it also please kick in we make the data free for everyone but it s not free to collect if you think the work is not important remember people believed the government assertions that fewer than 400 people annually were killed during police actions until fatal encounters proved otherwise thank you d brian burghart september 18 2020 users of this website should be aware that not much about the fatal encounters project happens on the website we re researchers not bloggers it s primarily a delivery method for the data on the google spreadsheet that s linked to below it s also great for professional and more informal researchers to download smaller datasets just go here make your selections and then explore the results or click the button to download a spreadsheet the main google sheet is available for download right here just go under file download as pick a format we recommend downloading as csv it wouldn t hurt any to read our caveats here a quick word about the data at over 30 000 records it s tempting to consider this a comprehensive dataset it s not while we completed the systematic states by year searches of the united states on november 3 2017 we know we ve missed some this set was never intended to do anything except identify the names demographic information dates and locales of the dead and to give us direction for categories that needed further research it is our intention to go deeper in areas we ve identified but this is still a first draft the next upgrade will include threat assessment columns including armed unarmed alleged weapon physical movement fleeing not fleeing we ll continue to do the weekly updates at minimum although its usually more like six time a week if this dataset falls short of your expectations in any way contact your representatives local state and federal agencies don t require collection of complete data regarding the numbers and characteristics of people their employees kill because they don t want citizens to have access to transparent and verifiable data the state s reasons for this are opaque the nation s leading law enforcement agency fbi collects vast amounts of information on crime nationwide but missing from this clearinghouse are statistics on where how often and under what circumstances police use deadly force in fact no one anywhere comprehensively tracks the most significant act police can do in the line of duty take a life according to the las vegas review journal in its series deadly force nov 28 2011 this site is founded upon the premise that americans should have the ability to track that act fatal encounters intends to help create a database of all deaths through police interaction in the united states since jan 1 2000 we are not a finished product we re just the first step toward creating an impartial comprehensive and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with police we expect other media organizations law enforcement universities artists and activist groups will advance our work and that s why we let anyone use the data for any reason for free this site will remain as impartial and data driven as possible directed by the theory that americans should be able to answer some simple questions about the use of deadly force by police how many people are killed in interactions with law enforcement in the united states of america are they increasing what do those people look like can policies and training be modified to have fewer officer involved killings and improve outcomes and safety for both officers and citizens and finally a word of thanks this project owes a great debt to the many volunteers and paid researchers who got us this far carla deceros volunteer work was amazing she did the initial work on more than 20 percent of this data walt lockley also did incredible work completing research on several key states christopher cox did the bulk of the work on texas i can t begin to mention all the people who contributed but those three moved the data collection ahead by years we ve also had many funders who came forward when we desperately needed help but two especially deserve thanks jan schaffer executive director of j lab the institute for interactive journalism enabled us to move from a primarily crowdsourced volunteer project to a more professional effort with a 12 000 grant our largest individual funder has been jeff moe and his contributions have meant the difference between moving forward and shuttering the project i d like to thank brian k finch and the amazing multidisciplinary team i work with at the university of southern california where i m a part time researcher while the usc work doesn t directly fund fatal encounters dot org some of the work funded by usc and the eunice kennedy shriver national institute of child health and human development nichd r01hd093382 will eventually appear in the fatal encounters dataset particularly imputed race data police agency ori numbers to enable researchers worldwide to merge with other national datasets and data regarding weapons and motion threat levels in addition i d like to thank dan perkins tom tomorrow of this modern world for giving us permission to use officer friendly as spokesman since 2014 officer friendly was put on paid administrative leave for unspecified reasons on july 8 2020 public information officer derek banall designed by keith knight of the k chronicles and th ink accepted the position on july 14 2020 thanks keith thanks d brian burghart follow on twitter fatalencounters please help every donation keeps us running you can do a great part in effecting change by donating to fatal encounters founder s note hello our efforts to collect information about police related deaths going back to january 1 2000 is completely funded by donations today september 18 2020 we re approaching 29 000 records of people killed during police interactions in the database please donate here thank you d brian 2026 fatal encounters