New Mapping Police Delineate Violence Too Killings

There were a publish of good reported instances of dark American citizens beingness killed yesteryear the constabulary inwards 2014. Not all of them were equally good reported equally the shooting of Michael Brown inwards Ferguson. According to Mapping Police Violence at that spot were at to the lowest degree 1175 people killed yesteryear the constabulary inwards 2014. 302 (25%) of them were black.

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


Home.Land.Security say that at that spot are many websites dedicated to mapping law-breaking 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, together with undocumented immigrants" run across a constabulary presence equally itself a threat. They convey thus determined to map constabulary shootings together with targeted arrests for what they telephone telephone "quality of life" crimes inwards San Francisco. 

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


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

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


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

The Cato Institute debate that "the Drug War (has) given ascension to a dramatic growth inwards the publish of 'no-knock' or 'quick-knock' raids on suspected drug offenders. Because these raids are oftentimes conducted based on tips from notoriously unreliable confidential informants, constabulary sometimes ship 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 demo raids that led to the give-up the ghost of innocent people, the give-up the ghost of a non-violent offender, the give-up the ghost or injury of a constabulary officeholder etc. It is possible to refine the information on the map yesteryear state, twelvemonth together with yesteryear outcome. 

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