The Cline Center for Advanced Social Research in partnership with an interdisciplinary team of University of Illinois faculty and student researchers has just released the most authoritative registry to date of police uses of lethal force in the United States from 2014 to 2021. The SPOTLITE project includes any incident where police use firearms—including those with non-fatal outcomes—as well as any other use of force that results in a death. The SPOTLITE dashboard lets anyone explore past uses of lethal force by police in every county in the United States. For more background on the project, see the University’s press release on our project.
