Document Type

Report

Publication Date

4-15-2021

Publication Title

Criminal Justice Fact Sheet No. 4

Publisher

The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West

First page number:

1

Last page number:

6

Abstract

The Washington Post publishes and regularly updates a dataset regarding the use of deadly force by police since 2015. This fact sheet extracts data for each state in the Mountain West (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah), and presents a regional perspective on the total number of individuals shot and killed by police, including demographic variables such as race, gender, and age. Two additional variables are included in this examination: the presence or absence of mental illness in the individual killed by police, and the presence or absence of a body-worn camera in incidents of deadly force by police.

Keywords

Officer-Involved Deaths; Police shootings; Mountain West; Arizona; Colorado; Nevada; New Mexico; Utah

Disciplines

Criminology | Health Policy | Political Science | Public Affairs | Public Policy | Race and Ethnicity | Urban Studies

File Format

pdf

File Size

215 KB

Language

English

Publisher Citation

Solano-Patricio, E.D., Frazee-Bench, M., Saladino, C.J., Brown, W.E. (2021). Police Shootings in the Mountain West, 2015 - 2021. The Data Hub at The Lincy Institute & Brookings Mountain West. Criminal Justice Fact Sheet No. 4, 1-6.


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