Patricia Mendoza

Mrs. Thomas

UWRT 1103-1004

Annotated Bibliographies

Annotated Bibliography 4

4). Deray Mckesson, Samuel Sinyangwe, and Brittany Packnett. Police Are Killing Black People at

Persistently High Rates. Digital image. Mapping Police Violence. N.p., 09 Aug. 2016. Web. 07 Apr.

2017. <https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/>.

Mapping Police Violence is a research collaborative collecting comprehensive data on

police killings nationwide to quantify the impact of police violence in communities. One of its

three main contributors are Deray Mckesson, an activist, organizer, and educator focusing

primarily on issues impacting children, youth, and families, and is the Founder and Co-Editor of
the Ferguson Protester Newsletter. The second contributor to the site is Samuel Sinyangwe, a

policy analyst and data scientist who works with communities of color to fight systemic racism

through cutting-edge policies and strategies and he also worked with city leaders, youth activists

and community organizations develop comprehensive agendas to achieve quality education,

health, and justice for young black men. Lastly, the third contributor is Brittany Packnett who

leads nationally on issues of educational equity, youth leadership development, service and

equity in marginalized communities. Brittany has committed her life and career to justice, and in

Ferguson and beyond, is an active protester, activist, and organizer and served as a stalwart

community voice to the Ferguson Commission and President Obama's Task Force on 21st

Century Policing as an appointee to each, and continues to advocate for urgent systemic change

at critical decision making tables and through national and international media.

The three contributors of the website use information sourced from the three largest, most

comprehensive and impartial crowdsourced databases on police killings in the country:

FatalEncounters.org, the U.S. Police Shootings Database and KilledbyPolice.net. We've also

done extensive original research to further improve the quality and completeness of the data;

searching social media, obituaries, criminal records databases, police reports and other sources to

identify the race of 91 percent of all victims in the database. The graph is a visual showing the

number of black people killed by police officers from January 1, 2013-July 1, 2016.

Other quotes:

Because I provided a visual, there werent any quotes that I could actually pull from it.

Analysis:
I wanted to add a visual in my paper so that I would be able to expand up on it and frankly so

that it could perhaps help my paper seem not-so-boring. In my paper, I will touch on police and

racial profiling and how we all know that the black community has been the targeted the most

and so I believe I will be able to use the graph and provide more information on it in my paper.