## Context This dataset contains data 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 data are scraped from [ODMP](https://www.odmp.org/) and capture information on all tracked on-duty police officer deaths in the U.S. broken down by cause from 1971 until 2016. ## Content This dataset tags every entry as human or canine. There are 10 variables: * **person** * **dept**: Department * **eow**: End of watch * **cause**: Cause of death * **cause_short**: Shortened cause of death * **date**: Cleaned EOW * **year**: Year from EOW * **canine** * **dept_name** * **state** ## Inspiration Using the data, can you determine the temporal trend of police officer deaths by cause? By state? By department? ## Acknowledgements The primary source of data is the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP), started in 1996 by a college student who is now a police officer and who continues to maintain the database. The original data and code can be found on the [FiveThirtyEight GitHub](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/police-deaths).