Week 5, Wednesday

I’d want to highlight the datasets based on police shootings published by The Washington Post. Every year, it is clearly stated that police in the United States shoot and murder more than 1000 people.

As I have gone through the datasets I found out that the data is from 2015 till date and it is getting updated weekly. The dataset has 12 columns: date, name, age, gender, armed, race, city, state, escape, body camera, sign of mental illness, and police department engaged.

While examining the datasets to find the key factors leading to more number of police shootings. I feel that body camera and the ethnicity is the major factor which result in more killings than other factors. This is the raw analysis just by looking at the datasets, I will deep dive under all factors in order to find a better analysis of the dataset.

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