In 2019, I went to Snowshoe, West Virginia with my girlfriend Kacy to meet up with my long-time friend Ben Emery (twit, git). For context Ben was on a cross country road trip to start a new life in Albequeque doing stats for the govt. We biked and hiked and things, but most importantly we found the most incredible carnival ride.

In the wake of the murder of George Floyed in the Twin Cities, we thought we could help lend perspective by applying GIS tools to a database of incidents where invidiuals were killed while in police custody in the United States. The data include the location and time of the incidents as well as myriad details about the victim’s race, alledged crime and details about the offending officer.