This dashboard contains a visuals of the US police shootings dataset. The goal of this analysis was to find if fatal shootings of blacks by the US police was racially motivated.
The dataset contains basic data about victims of police shootings like name, race, age etc. The dataset contains 15 features and 4895 records.
The following is a breakdown of the data and questions that it raises.
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The US has a population 328,239,523(https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219), people of black race make up 13.4% while the rest(86.6%) are other race(white, latina, hispanic, etc).
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26.52% of the victims were of black race and 73.48% other race, with the rate of police brutality by victim race 0.003% and 0.0005% for blacks and other races respectively. This represents a huge gap. So:
Are blacks generally notorious?
Or is there a racial abuse against blacks by the police? -
About 86% of blacks killed showed no sign of mental illness compared to 75% of other races. If the victims weren't mentally sound, they might have been shot because they weren't complying with the police and posed a threat.
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Also about 10% of black victims were unarmed compared to 6% of victims of other races, but 67% of victims of black race attacked compared to 64% of victims of other race.
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44% of black victims were trying to flee compared to 35% of other races.
Are blacks afraid of the police?
if they are,Why are they? -
16% of police who killed blacks had a body camera on, 10% of those who killed victims of other races had it on.
Did the police have any thing to hide when it came to dealing with blacks?
Are the killings of blacks racially motivated?