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Two 'deadliest' police departments in US to be investigated in California
Largest law enforcement agencies in Kern County will be reviewed for civil rights violations after Guardian report and series of complaints, Kamala Harris said The two largest law enforcement a...
Killings by US police logged at twice the previous rate under new federal program
US government pilot program, which draws on information collected by the Guardian, publishes first data gathered under new ‘hybrid’ counting system A new US government program to count kill...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/15/us-police-killings-department-of-justice-program
If you value the Guardian’s work to count police killings, please support our efforts
Pursuing journalism that matters in under-reported areas is expensive. With your help we can continue to uncover injustice and produce these important stories across the US Support us with a mont...
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2016/aug/12/guardian-us-supporters-membership-the-counted
How we record every police killing in the United States – video
A team of Guardian US journalists investigate what the United States government hasn’t: the number of people killed by law enforcement in America. The Counted, born of out of questions after th...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/apr/11/the-counted-police-killings-guardian-us-video
Bernie Sanders: police should be obliged to report all officer-involved deaths
Democratic presidential candidate calls for mandatory reporting The Guardian launched The Counted project in absence of official tally Police departments should be forced to report all deaths ...
US police killed 1,136 people in 2015. Will 2016 be any different? – video
The killing of Mike Brown in August 2014 made the world wake up to police violence in America. But when the Guardian began looking for reliable data on how many civilians are killed by law enforc...
The Guardian view on killings by US police: why we must keep counting
The Counted has made up for the Obama administration’s failings, but the lack of oversight remains. So we will restart our count of people killed by police until the government does its job At...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/the-counted-killings-by-police-editorial
Young black men killed by US police at highest rate in year of 1,134 deaths
Final total of people killed by US police officers in 2015 shows rate of death for young black men was five times higher than white men of the same age People killed by police in the United State...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/the-counted-police-killings-2015-young-black-men
Ties that bind: how the bond between police and prosecutors impedes justice
The fate of police officers who kill often rests in the hands of the prosecutors they typically work alongside. Amid calls for reform led by the White House, a Guardian analysis reveals district ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/ties-that-bind-conflicts-of-interest-police-killings
US government database hopes to tell 'whole story' of police killings after year of Guardian count
As the FBI follows The Counted with an effort to track people killed by officers – one dependent on voluntary law enforcement compliance – the Bureau of Justice Statistics has quietly launche...
The County: partners in crime
How the officers of American law enforcement’s deadliest county plan to continue policing themselves Part four of a five-part series from The Counted The vial of methamphetamine that the po...
The County: sexual assault and the price of silence
How law enforcement officers in Kern County, California, secretly tried to ‘buy off’ victims in sexual misconduct cases against the men sworn to protect them Part three of a five-part serie...
The County: where deputies dole out rough justice
How the brutal tactics of officers in American law enforcement’s deadliest county have ended lives, cost the public millions, and prompted claims of a police force out of control Part two of ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/04/the-county-kern-county-california-deputies-tactics
The County: the story of America's deadliest police
Police in Kern County, California, have killed more people per capita than in any other American county in 2015. The Guardian examines how, with little oversight, officers here became the country...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/01/the-county-kern-county-deadliest-police-killings
Bolts from the blue: inside the phenomenon of US police, Tasers and sudden death
A Guardian investigation reveals that many US police departments have struggled to regulate Tasers, despite dozens of deaths after their use this year – and researchers who argue the weapons ca...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/05/police-tasers-deaths-the-counted
The death of Calvon 'Andre' Reid: 'Why use a Taser? And why was he treated so inhumanely?'
The 39-year-old father of two went into cardiac arrest and later died after police officers in Florida deployed their Tasers on him. ‘We believe now, and we believed from the beginning,’ his ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/nov/05/calvon-andre-reid-police-taser-florida-video
Eric Garner and Tamir Rice among those missing from FBI record of police killings
Only 224 of 18,000 law enforcement agencies reported fatal shootings in 2014 Previously unpublished FBI data sheds new light on flawed voluntary system Killings by police that unleashed a new ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/15/fbi-record-police-killings-tamir-rice-eric-garner
FBI chief: 'unacceptable' that Guardian has better data on police violence
James Comey tells crime summit that ‘it’s ridiculous’ Guardian and Washington Post have more information on civilians’ deaths at hands of US police than FBI The head of the FBI has said...
The Counted: are US police hiding behind 'suicide by cop' shootings?
Fatal shootings by police around the US are being ruled suicides. Are officers avoiding scrutiny, or just being used as weapons? None of the shots that struck Tommy Smith outside his mother’s...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/06/suicide-by-cop-the-counted
US police act against federal guidelines with shootings into moving cars
US police have fatally shot 30 people in moving vehicles this year, despite federal guidelines advising them not to. Why have police departments pulled the trigger on drivers rather than reform? ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/01/moving-targets-police-shootings-vehicles-the-counted
'I dream about it every night': what happens to Americans who film police violence?
When Feidin Santana filmed Walter Scott’s death, it marked a turning point in the US civil rights movement – and in Santana’s life. He and others who have taken the law into their own hands...
By the numbers: US police kill more in days than other countries do in years
The Guardian has built the most comprehensive database of US police killing ever published. Compare our findings to those from the UK, Australia, Iceland and beyond It’s rather difficult to c...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-police-killings-us-vs-other-countries
Never before named: five people killed by police the world forgot
Among the 470 killed by officers in 2015 are some who have never been publicly identified: ‘This is why we are calling for mandatory reporting,’ ACLU lawyer says One was unarmed, shot dead ...
The Counted: the definitive map of US police killings in 2015
The Guardian has created the most detailed map of police killings ever published. Find your hometown and explore the most lethal police departments in America Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-map-us-police-killings
The Counted: people killed by police in the United States – interactive
The Guardian counted the people killed by US law enforcement agencies in 2015 and 2016. Here are their stories Continue reading...
William Chapman: 'I sat here and waited for my baby to come home. But he never came home' – video
Sallie Chapman's 18-year-old son, William, was killed by a police officer in Portsmouth, Virginia, in April. According to witnesses, William, who was unarmed, got into a struggle in the parking l...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/jun/01/william-chapman-shooting-video
The counted: inside the search for the real number of police killings in the US
State by state, town by town, cop by cop, a lack of transparency is halting police reform. But part two of a Guardian investigation reveals that a quiet revolution in crime data may be under way ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/21/police-killings-us-government-statistics
The uncounted: why the US can't keep track of people killed by police
After a year of high-profile police killings, calls for a national database have gained traction. But how would that work? Tom McCarthy investigates the challenges for law enforcement and governm...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/18/police-killings-government-data-count