Where were people killed by police in 2015?

To find out, I analyzed data from The Guardian’s The Counted, which tracks law enforcement-related deaths in the United States. I calculated population size-adjusted rates for every county, then made the maps below.

(Technical note: counties with low populations can throw off this kind of analysis, because a small county with one death might have a very high death rate. I used a method that takes this into consideration, and down-weights small counties towards the national average.)

Some takeaway points:

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I’m a social epidemiologist and Health & Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard FXB Center.

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Justin Feldman

I’m a social epidemiologist and Health & Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard FXB Center.