class date: 02/04/2025
Today, in the class professor showed us a report of his own displaying the number of shootings by police stations, that led me to an objective.
I wanted to understand the relationship between body camera usage and the race of the victim in fatal police shootings. So first I divided race of the individuals killed by a specific police stations, which looks like..
Agency Name |
White |
Black |
Hispanic |
Other/Unknown |
Los Angeles Police Department |
54 |
36 |
43 |
15 |
Phoenix Police Department |
48 |
29 |
38 |
11 |
Houston Police Department |
39 |
33 |
23 |
6 |
Then further categorized to know how many of the fatal shootings involved officers with body cameras turned ON and OFF for each racial group.
Agency name |
Race |
Bodycam ON |
Bodycam OFF |
Unkown |
Los Angeles Police Department |
white |
22 |
19 |
13 |
|
black |
10 |
13 |
13 |
|
hispanic |
16 |
15 |
12 |
Phoenix Police Department |
white |
15 |
22 |
11 |
|
black |
8 |
13 |
8 |
|
hispanic |
9 |
20 |
9 |
ps: I was hoping to find some patterns, but it doesn’t look like there are any major ones.