Sources of information on police use of force in California

NOTES: The 2019 RIPA data include the 15 largest law enforcement agencies in the state; future years of data collection will expand to include all agencies. *Since Fatal Encounters collects all deaths where law enforcement is present, we focus on a subset of fatalities that are more comparable to those in the DOJ datasets. We include cases that involve use of force—accidental or purposeful—and pursuit-related deaths, while excluding cases of suicides or deaths of other causes (e.g., drug overdose during police stop).