The big-data struggle to accurately report deaths in police custody | The Daily Dot
By Deron Dalton This has been the year of policing the police. In 2015, activists and journalists documented and shared moments of police violence, while new efforts emerged to report comprehensible data on civilians who were killed by the police in the U.S., to provide solutions to related failures of government agencies. The movement to […]
Inside the grassroots effort to track police violence in the U.S. | The Daily Dot
By Deron Dalton In the era of Big Data and online advertising, when virtually every aspect of our lives is recorded, one key bit of data has been conspicuously absent: The number of Americans killed by police. Until now. After former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in August 2014, government agencies, like the FBI, CDC and Bureau […]
Remember the Black women who died from police brutality | MadameNoire
Rekia Boyd, 22, was shot in the back of her head when Dante Servin, an off-duty police officer, shot into a crowd five times on March 22, 2012 in Chicago. She died two days later. Servin claimed Boyd’s friend Antonio Cross pulled out an object from his pocket and pointed it at him. Servin thought […]
Photos: Stop Mass Incarceration Network protests NYPD, police brutality in US | BLK Social Journalist via Medium
By Deron Dalton Check out more photos from the protest via BLK Social Journalist on Medium.