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The Washington Post is compiling a database of every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty since 2015.
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suggestions for "type" variable in agency file #60

Closed moxboxwa closed 1 year ago

moxboxwa commented 1 year ago
  1. There is no "county-other" category, so several county-level agencies are designated "local-other". County level police are governed by different bodies than local police, so it might be worth creating a distinct category for "county-other".
  2. Consider creating a category for tribal police.
  3. Consider creating a category for campus police (school, college, university)
  4. Some apparently local police departments are missing the type variable (notably, Savannah Police Department). Should these be classified as local police?
meghanhoyer commented 1 year ago

12 agencies were missing agency types. Assigned department types to these agency ids.