Talk:List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, 2015

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Fatal Encounters & Killed by Police

As of June 1, 2015: FatalEncounters.org (crowd-sourced, contains a few duplicates) records 359 people killed. KilledbyPolice.net records 478 (doesn't appear to include duplicates) between Jan 1, 2015 and Jun 1, 2015. Based on these databases, January 2015 has been updated to 95 killed. TygerBright3 (talk) 11:58, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this list broken up by month? This makes the data incredibly difficult to use. What purpose does it serve? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.182.202.184 (talk) 04:42, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database says 465 people were killed by law enforcement from 1-Jan-15 throught 31-May-15. These wiki pages for 2015 only list 262, so it's under-reporting by 203, or 44%.

Guardian statistics - a different perspective

It seems to me that the presentation of the Guardian's data creates the false impression that police kill far more people classified as "black" than those classified as "white," when in fact (or at least according to the Guardian), the opposite is the case. According to the Guardian's 2015 data (as reported December 3, 2015) police killed almost twice as many people classified as "white" people as "black."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/the-counted-police-killings-2015-young-black-men

According to the Guardian, of the 1134 people killed by police in 2015, 577 (50.9%) were classified as “white,” 300 (26.5%) as “black,” 193 (17.0%) as “hispanic/latino,” 24 (2.1%) as “Asian/Pacific Islander,” 13 (1.1%) as “Native American,” and 27 (2.4%) as other/unknown.

Basically, while the Guardian's data shows that a black person has about three times the chances of being killed by police as a white person, a police officer is about twice as likely to kill a white person as a black person. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jagcowan (talk • contribs) 16:38, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]