Black Lives Matter: Race, Policing, and Protest

Find statistics and surveys related to law enforcement.

Search for census information of St. Louis and surrounding areas by zipcode

Find information on housing and development related to these topics

Racial profiling data compiled on vehicle stops by the Ferguson Police Department [PDF]. See https://www.ago.mo.gov/ for the main site.

Crime report on "justifiable homocide" by law enforcement by weapon. See more links on this page to access other, related data. Note: Justifiable homicide is defined as the killing of a felon by a peace officer.

Many links to raw data and how to think about using statistics in reporting

Database in progress of all deaths through police interaction in the United States since Jan. 1, 2000.

Deadspin has enlisted crowdsourcing to scour Google day-by-day for information about police related shootings, and to create a database from the results.

Gawker took information that the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund Twitter posted, naming 76 men and women who were killed in police custody since the 1999 death of Amadou Diallo in New York, and added more detailed accounts of many of those.

A collection of interactive maps to examine white flight, race and property, municipal zoning, and urban renewal in St. Louis

Sort what happened where by day (Nov. 24-29) and type of event. Protest, street closures, fires, arrest and other information are color coded.

Photos of Ferguson protests in August 2014 following the killing of Mike Brown

Photos from August protests

Photos from nation-wide protests following the grand jury's announcement to not indict Wilson

The killing of Eric Garner by police (#icantbreathe) inspired more protests related to Garner's death, Ferguson, and police killings