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 # Police Shooting Data
 
+# Publishing Pause
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+Since the wapo repo [changed its formatting](https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings/tree/master#data-versions) with a new v2 data source, and stopped updating v1, this project is not able to pull in fresh data. I do not have time currently to make the necessary updates to get it to track the new data format, but welcome any contributions towards getting it fixed.
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