Content # Police Deaths This directory contains the data and code behind the story [The Dallas Shooting Was Among The Deadliest For Police In U.S. History](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-dallas-shooting-was-among-the-deadliest-for-police-in-u-s-history/). The primary source of data is the [Officer Down Memorial Page](https://www.odmp.org/) (ODMP), started in 1996 by a college student who is now a police officer and who continues to maintain the database. File descriptions: File | Description ---|----------- `scrape.R` | Scrapes data on the death of every officer tracked on ODMP `all_data.csv` | Output of `scrape.R` `clean.R` | Takes the data in `all_data.csv`, cleans it and formats the dates correctly, and tags every entry as human or canine. `clean_data.csv` | Output of `clean.R` `plot.R` | Summarizes police deaths by category and generates a plot similar to the one below  Context This is a dataset from [FiveThirtyEight](https://fivethirtyeight.com/) hosted on their [GitHub](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data). Explore FiveThirtyEight data using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the FiveThirtyEight [organization page](https://www.kaggle.com/fivethirtyeight)! * Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily. Acknowledgements This dataset is maintained using GitHub's [API](https://developer.github.com/v3/?) and Kaggle's [API](https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api). This dataset is distributed under the [Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license.