The Cline Center for Advanced Social Research in partnership with an interdisciplinary team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty and student researchers has just released the most authoritative registry to date of police uses of lethal force in Illinois from 2014 to 2021. The Systematic Policing Oversight Through Lethal-force Incident Tracking Environment (SPOTLITE) 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 Illinois dashboard lets anyone explore past uses of lethal force by police in every Illinois county, and assess the racial and ethnic breakdown of civilians involved in these incidents. For more background on the project, visit https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1985101181
