Police Shootings

I happened to stumble upon this, which has every recorded fatal police shooting for the year. I have found it to be quite interesting, because you can filter them by race, age, gender, state. mental illness or not, armed or unarmed, body camera or not, whether they were fleeing the scene or no, and if the officers are identified. Below I have put tables of the information for this year.

Gender

Male	Female
537	27

Mental Illness

Yes	No/Unknown
136	428

Officers Identified

Yes	No/Unknown
229	335

Body Cameras

Yes	None/Unknown
73	491

Race

White	Black	Hispanic	Unknown	Other
252	137	83	69	23

Age

Under 18	18-29	30-44	45 and up	Unknown
10	181	230	120	23

Fleeing

Car	Foot	Other	Not	Undetermined
93	72	25	367	7

Weapons

Gun	Knife	Vehicle	Toy Weapon	Other	Unarmed	Unknown
313	100	38	23	24	35	31

 

As I read through some of the cases, I agreed with most, but some I believed the police were just trigger happy. For example, a 17 year old boy who was naked was shot when he began charging at the cop. A man with schizophrenia was shot when he physically confronted the officers. I understand that officers need to protect themselves, but if the person is unarmed then there are other ways to restrain them.