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The counted

The counted was a 2015-16 series tracking people killed by police in the US

8 January 2017

  • Protests Break Out In Charlotte After Police Shooting<br>CHARLOTTE, NC - SEPTEMBER 21: Protestors march to protest the death of Keith Scott September 21, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Scott, who was black, was shot and killed at an apartment complex near UNC Charlotte by police officers, who say they warned Scott to drop a gun he was allegedly holding. (Photo by Brian Blanco/Getty Images)

    Young black men again faced highest rate of US police killings in 2016

    The Counted project points to continuing racial disparities, with black males aged 15-34 nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed

15 December 2016

  • Four Police Officers Killed During Anti-Police Brutality March In Dallas<br>DALLAS, TX - JULY 7: Dallas police and residents stand near the scene where four Dallas police officers were shot and killed on July 7, 2016 in Dallas, Texas. According to reports, shots were fired during a protest being held in downtown Dallas in response to recent fatal shootings of two black men by police - Alton Sterling on July 5, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile on July 6, 2016, in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. (Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

    Killings by US police logged at twice the previous rate under new federal program

    US government pilot program, which draws on information collected by the Guardian, publishes first data gathered under new ‘hybrid’ counting system

28 October 2016

  • Rankin on scene cropped - re William Chapman and Kirill Denyakin, who were both unarmed, were shot separately four years apart in Portsmouth by policeman Stephen Rankin

    Virginia police shootings: ‘We missed an opportunity to stop him'

    In 2011, Virginia police officer Stephen Rankin shot an unarmed man dead. Last year he did it again. The fight to get him convicted is the subject of a new film

6 September 2016

  • New The Counted composite

    Police killings down slightly year-on-year – The Counted monthly update

    Welcome to the inaugural newsletter from the journalists behind The Counted, the Guardian US project to document every killing by police

12 August 2016

  • Michael Brown protests

    If you value the Guardian’s work to count police killings, please support our efforts

    Pursuing journalism that matters in under-reported areas is expensive. With your help we can continue to uncover injustice and produce these important stories across the US

13 April 2016

  • Charlotte protests over police killing

    Dozens of killings by US police ruled justified without public being notified

    Guardian study finds officers involved in one in six deaths recorded in the first quarter of 2015 were cleared of wrongdoing without announcement

11 April 2016

  • The Counted composite

    Inside The Counted: how Guardian US has tracked police killings nationwide

  • COUNTED

    How we record every police killing in the United States – video

8 April 2016

  • The Counted composite

    The Counted so far: you ask, we answer

    Join Guardian US reporters Jon Swaine and Jamiles Lartey for a live Q&A about the project on Tuesday 12 April at 1pm ET

11 February 2016

  • New York police officer Peter Liang shot an unarmed man dead in a darkened stairwell of public housing he was patrolling.

    NYPD officer Peter Liang convicted of manslaughter in Akai Gurley shooting

    Officer was patrolling Brooklyn public housing facility with his gun drawn when he says he accidentally fired, killing unarmed black man in darkened stairwell

4 February 2016

  • protest

    Now we know the names of those killed by the police. But we can't stop here

    We owe it to every single one of the people who lost their lives during police encounters to fix this broken system

5 January 2016

  • 140x84 trailpic for US police killed 1,103 people this year. Will 2016 be any different? - video

    US police killed 1,136 people in 2015. Will 2016 be any different? – video

    The killing of Mike Brown in August 2014 made the world wake up to police gun use in America

31 December 2015

  • Loretta Lynch and James Comey

    The Guardian view on killings by US police: why we must keep counting

    The Counted has made up for the Obama administration’s failings, but the lack of oversight remains. So we will restart our count of people killed by police until the government does its job
  • A protestor demonstrates in front of a line of police officers in solidarity with protests over the Baltimore death of Freddie Gray, in Chicago, Illinois, April 28, 2015. Gray, a 25-year-old black man, died in Baltimore police custody on April 19. REUTERS/Jim Young

    Young black men killed by US police at highest rate in year of 1,134 deaths

    Final total of people killed by US police officers in 2015 shows rate of death for young black men was five times higher than white men of the same age
  • the counted conflicts illustration

    Ties that bind

    The fate of police officers who kill often rests in the hands of the prosecutors they typically work alongside. A Guardian analysis reveals district attorneys cleared colleagues in more than 200 cases this year

19 December 2015

  • Amarion Allen, 11-years-old stands in front of a police line shortly before shots were fired in a police-officer involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri August 9, 2015. Two people were shot in the midst of a late-night confrontation between riot police and protesters, after a day of peaceful events commemorating the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a white officer one year ago. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

    Is US policing out of control? - Guardian Live event

    At a Guardian Live event in London, a panel of writers, historians and activists discuss the shocking deaths of US citizens by police officers. Did race play a role in the killings, and what can we do to stop them happening again?
    Podcast80:29

13 December 2015

  • bureau of justice statistics police killings

    US government database hopes to tell 'whole story' of police killings after year of Guardian count

    As the FBI follows The Counted with an effort to track people killed by officers – one dependent on voluntary law enforcement compliance – the Bureau of Justice Statistics has quietly launched a count it hopes will be comprehensive

11 December 2015

  • Kern County vigil

    The County: what happens after police kill someone you love?

    In Kern County, California, officer-involved deaths have been more common than in any other US county this year. Meet the families across this rural swath of America calling for action in a place where law enforcement consistently clears itself of wrongdoing

10 December 2015

  • A sheriff's deputy in Wasco, California.

    The County: partners in crime

    How the officers of American law enforcement’s deadliest county plan to continue policing themselves

8 December 2015

  • In an image from a dash-cam video on 6 December, a Seattle police officer shoots at a man involved in a high-speed pursuit. The man was killed. The FBI says it will publish a wider range of data on fatal police shootings.

    FBI to launch new system to count people killed by police officers

    Move comes after sustained criticism of agency, whose director admitted it was ‘embarrassing’ that Guardian had better data on police use of force
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