Analysis of Fatal Police Shootings

On August 29, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year old black male, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a 28-year old white male police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, after an altercation stemming from a pedestrian stop relative to a recent robbery in the vicinity. The shooting, mixed with contradictory testimony from several onlookers, ignited civil unrest with focus…

Mapping Crime in Madison, Wisconsin

In 2013, it was reported that Madison, Wisconsin was one of the safest cities in the United States. In the FBI reports that help dictate the “safest cities” and “dangerous cities” lists, statistics on shootings, homicides, burglaries, rapes, assaults, and other various violent crime statistics are taken into consideration. Interest in these numbers typically stem from an…