Due in part to recent high-profile shootings of civilians by police in the US, the media and public have been scrutinizing police killings heavily. The team at FiveThirtyEight assembled a dataset using crowdsourced data from Guardian and census data. It contains information on each police killing in the US.

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.