The raw 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/.

police_deaths

Format

A data frame with 22800 rows representing Police officers/dogs who lost their lives and 7 variables:

person

Name of person/canine who died

cause_of_death

Cause of death

date

Date of event

year

Year of event

canine

TRUE if canine, FALSE if human

dept_name

Name of police department

state

State of police department

Source

Officer Down Memorial Page https://www.odmp.org/