Keep an eye out for more data we’ll be releasing over the next few months – we have some important stuff planned.

I had seen the impact quality work can have in this space from the research Meg Rubado and I did on use of force policies and knew there was a need for better data. The Cline Center was already working towards producing the data we all wanted – so I was excited to join in.

You might be wondering if this is the same guy who studies media & politics, misinformation, & civic engagement. Yep, that’s me. Still doing that stuff.

We found nearly twice as many of these incidents than what has been shown in previous efforts by other orgs. Unlike other efforts, we are tracking uses of lethal force that result in a death AND those that don’t. Read more, use our dashboard, and download the data at our site: spotlite.illinois.edu

Database expands to document police uses of lethal force across US The Cline Center for Advanced Social Research and an interdisciplinary team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign experts have developed a nationwide registry on the use of lethal force by police...

Making my inaugural Bluesky post to announce a project I’ve been working on @cline-center.bsky.social for the past few years. Today we released a dataset of 23,282 police uses of lethal force from 2014-2021. You can read more from this U of Illinois press release: news.illinois.edu/view/6367/20...