Black Lives Matter: Race, Policing, and Protest: Statistics, Maps, & Images

Op-ed with links to statistics on disparity between blacks and whites

Search for census information of St. Louis and surrounding areas by zipcode.

Find statistics and surveys related to law enforcement.

Crime report on "justifiable homocide" by law enforcement by weapon. See more links on this page to access other, related data

Find information on housing and development related to these topics.

Many links to raw data and how to think about using statistics in reporting.

This article highlights a few facts from a report released by the U.S. Department of Justice.The Ferguson police department has demonstrated racial bias towards African Americans. For example, "African Americans are 2.07 times more likely to be searched during a vehicular stop but are 26 percent less likely to have contraband found on them during a search."

Database in progress of all deaths through police interaction in the United States since Jan. 1, 2000.

Racial profiling data compiled on vehicle stops by the Ferguson Police Department. See https://www.ago.mo.gov/ for the main site and search for "vehicle stops" in the search bar.

Deadspin has enlisted crowdsourcing to scour Google day-by-day for information about police related shootings, and to create a database from the results.

This information has been meticulously sourced from the three largest, most comprehensive and impartial crowdsourced databases on police killings in the country: FatalEncounters.org, the U.S. Police Shootings Database and KilledbyPolice.net. Very succint and impactful infographics on police related killings.

The report provides analysis and reporting of recent trends and ongoing variations in health disparities and inequalities for selected social and health indicators.

A report by the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, March 4, 2015.

This report chronicles the racial disparity that permeates every stage of the United States criminal justice system, from arrest to trial to sentencing.

A collection of interactive maps to examine white flight, race and property, municipal zoning, and urban renewal in St. Louis.

Sort what happened where by day (Nov. 24-29) and type of event. Protest, street closures, fires, arrest and other information are color coded.

Photos from August protests.

The killing of Eric Garner by police (#icantbreathe) inspired more protests related to Garner's death, Ferguson, and police killings.

Photos of Ferguson protests in August 2014 following the killing of Mike Brown.

Photos from nation-wide protests following the grand jury's announcement to not indict Wilson.

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From Los Angeles to New York City, people demonstrated after a grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown. There were arrests nationwide.

Names, stories and pictures of unarmed victims of police related killings from 2014-present.