Mapping Constabulary Violence In Addition To Killings

There were a expose of good reported instances of dark American citizens beingness killed past times the constabulary inwards 2014. Not all of them were every bit good reported every bit the shooting of Michael Brown inwards Ferguson. According to Mapping Police Violence in that place were at to the lowest degree 1175 people killed past times the constabulary inwards 2014. 302 (25%) of them were black.

The National Police Violence Map is a mapped timeline of the 302 dark men too women killed past times the constabulary inwards 2014. The map uses CartoDB's Torque library to animate through the year. You tin click on whatever of the map markers to larn to a greater extent than nigh the private killed too a brief description of the circumstances surrounding the death.


Home.Land.Security say that in that place are many websites dedicated to mapping offense exactly non many that are mapping where people experience vulnerable because of the constabulary themselves.

Home.Land.Security claim that many individuals  "including people of color, queer folks, too undocumented immigrants" encounter a constabulary presence every bit itself a threat. They convey hence determined to map constabulary shootings too targeted arrests for what they telephone band "quality of life" crimes inwards San Francisco. 

The Home.Land.Security map allows users to persuasion the locations of 'Officer Involved Shootings' too reported  "Quality of Life Crimes". It is besides possible to charge demographic information onto the map too to persuasion San Francisco neighborhood boundaries.


After the shooting of the unarmed 18-year-old Mike Brown inwards Ferguson past times a constabulary officeholder a expose of Ferguson citizens came together to form Hands Up United.

Hands Up United's destination inwards the short-term is to acquire judge for the shooting of Mike Brown and, inwards the long-term, to aid preclude time to come incidents of constabulary brutality. To aid hit this destination Hand Up United has released an interactive map which anyone tin purpose to send service reports of constabulary brutality or constabulary misuse of power.


This Google Map from the Cato Institute shows the place of botched SWAT too paramilitary constabulary raids inwards the United States.

The Cato Institute combat that "the Drug War (has) given ascension to a dramatic growth inwards the expose of 'no-knock' or 'quick-knock' raids on suspected drug offenders. Because these raids are oft conducted based on tips from notoriously unreliable confidential informants, constabulary sometimes send SWAT-style raids on the incorrect home, or on the homes of nonviolent, misdemeanor drug users."

The Botched Paramilitary Police Raids map uses colored map markers to present raids that led to the boot the bucket of innocent people, the boot the bucket of a non-violent offender, the boot the bucket or injury of a constabulary officeholder etc. It is possible to refine the information on the map past times state, yr too past times outcome.