Racial/Ethnic Breakdown (Currently for Illinois Only)
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.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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.
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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.
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Jay Jennings is a research scientist at the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research and a research fellow at the Center for Media Engagement at University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Temple University in 2015. He studies the media’s role in motivating, discouraging, and informing engagement with the political process. Jay’s work draws on the fields of political communication, public opinion, and political psychology to help us understand the ways the media influences political participation.