Support Fatal Encounters Donate Today! I’ve just got a short message today. Today is our last day for this crowdfunding campaign. We’ve got about 14 hours left. I’ve said this before, but I guess it’s … Read more
Support Fatal Encounters Donate Today! In my last few posts, I’ve written about the formulaic ways news media cover police killed by people and people killed by police. These formulas allow police to predict and … Read more
Support Fatal Encounters Donate Today! My first post in this series was called “How the media misleads on police violence Part 1,” and it regarded ways the media (and government) effectively prevent people of this … Read more
Support Fatal Encounters Donate Today! My last post was called “How the media misleads on police violence Part 1,” and it regarded ways the media (and government) effectively prevent people of this country from having … Read more
The United States government does not keep accurate records about law enforcement-related deaths. My boss does instead. Fatal Encounters operates from D. Brian Burghart’s dining room table, where other researchers and I are helping him to build a … Read more
Sarah Cohen, Editor of the New York Times computer-assisted reporting team and co-writer of this story that ran about Fatal Encounters today, was kind enough to allow me to post their spreadsheet which shows the … Read more
Wow, that’s pretty hilarious. I just realized I never posted the final piece of the newspaper’s series. It ran on December 31, 2014. (Yes, I know it says January 1 on the website, but the … Read more
Eyes wide open What should citizen oversight of law enforcement look like? By D. Brian Burghart Particularly since Michael Brown’s death at the hands of police in Ferguson, Missouri, a national dialogue has been taking place … Read more
I want to mention a couple of my associates in this effort to create a national database of people killed by police, and to talk about our different approaches to how we collect and disseminate the information. … Read more
People and news organizations often ask me how government goes about hiding information about police activities. I’ve written about it fairly extensively, but here’s a pretty good example how Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden’s office … Read more
Founder’s Note:
Hello. Our efforts to collect information about police-related deaths going back to January 1, 2000, is completely funded by donations. Today, September 18, 2020, we’re approaching 29,000 records of people killed during police interactions in the database. Please donate here.
Thank you,
D. Brian
