County Level Data

I’ve made the following county-level graphs of fatal police shooting rates by race using data from the Census and compiled from the data I’ve now made available on figshare:

Bradford, John Hamilton (2017): Fatal Police Shootings (2013-2016) & County Level Data. figshare.

Below is the graph. I. Loading Data 1. A function to retrieve state abbreviations getState.abb <- function(x){ ##remove punctuation and twim white space, convert to lower case x <- tolower(trimws(gsub("[[:punct:]]", "", x))) x[which(x == "washington dc")] <- "district of columbia" states.

I’ve just published new data sets to figshare with accompaying code to RPubs. Below is the project description with links. This is a set of csv files including a number of variables including fatal police shootings and other crime and socioeconomic covariates at different levels of geographical aggregation from 2013-2016. Five of the files use only the Washington Post data covering years 2015 and 2016, whereas the other five files utilize fatal police shootings of civilians for years 2013-2016, combining the Lott & Moody (2016) data for years 2013-2015 and Washington Post data for 2016.