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.