Following several high-profile incidents, police use of force in the US drew intense public and media scrutiny. To bring data to the conversation, the team at FiveThirtyEight compiled a dataset that pairs crowdsourced reporting from the Guardian with US census data. It documents each police-involved fatality in the country.

Each of the 467 rows in the dataset contains information on a police killing of a civilian in the US in from January 2015 to June 2015. Let's see how the data looks like.