Visualizing ‘Officer-Involved’ Deaths In America

Michael Ireland – Springfield, MO

“A cookie-cut subdivision, a mall parking lot, a rural country road. Linking these unremarkable pockets of America, and hundreds of places just as ordinary, is the fact that they’ve all been sites where people were killed by U.S. police officers.”

In my first piece for TIME, I write about Josh Begley‘s project Officer Involved.

Like many of Begley’s previous works, he makes use of third party (activist/research/journalism) data to image a geographically-disparate but nationally-important issue. For Officer Involved he used The Guardian’s data from The Counted.

In 2016, there were 1,138 deaths in which a U.S. law enforcement officers was involved.

Read: Visualizing ‘Officer-Involved’ Deaths Across America

Talbot Schroeder – Old Bridge Township, NJ

Donald Matkins – Lucedale, MS

Alice Brown – San Francisco, CA

Anthony Purvis – Douglas, GA

Omarr Jackson – New Orleans, LA

Ricky Hall – Fort Meade, MD

Brian Fritze – Glenwood Springs, CO

Aaron Rutledge – Pineville, LA

Charly ‘Africa’ Keunang – Los Angeles, CA

Lionel Young – Landover, MD