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RESEARCH, ARTICLES, AND LINKS

Research Methodology

Ronald Browne, SAY THEIR NAMES Lead Researcher

Purpose and Value – People of African descent have suffered from grievous oppression beginning from slavery and in varying ways through Jim Crow, the modern Civil Rights movement to the present day. Brutal treatment of blacks at the hands of police, while just one element of that oppression, has been grossly underreported. A consistent goal of African-Americans is the attainment of equal justice under the law, an essential element of social justice. The purpose of Say Their Names is to focus attention on the brutal nature of the policing of blacks in the past with the hope that the information will help reduce its occurrence in the future.

Scope of the Project – Say Their Names is an extension of the Blood Lines Project and focuses on the killing of blacks by police and aims to document occurrences that likely would not have resulted in the death of white Americans given the same set of circumstances. The span of years will cover August 1919 to the present and will be continuously updated. We also will include brief biographical information for each victim, so they don’t appear as dry statistics.

In developing a comprehensive list of those killed by police brutality, first, we have identified more than 2,100 cases across the United States in just the last five years. Our goal is to identify as many such cases as we can dating from 1919 through the present, connecting the Red Summer of 1919 to the present time. We will be reporting those who have been killed by police from the most recent killings and adding the older cases as our research progresses. First priority will be given to cases that have taken place in Illinois. We use as many sources as we can in deciding which cases to cite, including internet news sources, websites of educational institutions, and public library microfiche records.

Specifically, Google.com and Wikipedia.com will be used to identify cases and serve to provide links to other sources of information. A large portion of our database up to this point was obtained through washingtonpost.com; chicagotribune.com; suntimes.com; and other news media websites depending on location. Each reported case is examined against certain criteria as our focus for this project is on those who have been clear innocent victims of police brutality, such as those with no drawn active weapons or not in active pursuit of unlawful actions or other complexities. Because we vet each case as thoroughly as we can, the most recent incidents may take some time to appear on our public website list. We understand that not all cases have been reported in the media and in that path of collecting the most comprehensive list, we invite everyone to collaborate with us.

If you know of a person that should be considered for inclusion, please email us at STN [at] nonopera [dot] org and include the person’s name and as much information as you can provide, such as age, gender, photo, and bio, the incident date and location (city and state), and a brief description of what happened.

Washington Post Police Shootings Database 2015-2020

News Articles and Other Links

A History of Racial Injustice
https://calendar.eji.org/about

Chicago Survivors
https://chicagosurvivors.org/memorial-wall/

Fatal Shootings of Unarmed Black People Reveal Troubling Patterns
Morning Edition, National Public Radio, January 25, 2021

Mapping Police Violence
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

#SAYHERNAME Movement
https://www.aapf.org/sayhername

SAY HER NAME: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women
July 2015 Update from African American Policy Forum & Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies

Black Men Fatal Shootings by Police – 2013 to 2019 – Illinois District 60 State Representative Rita Mayfield
https://www.ritamayfield60.com/black_men_fatal_shootings_1642.php

1641 – Illinois District 29 State Representative Thaddeus Jones
http://www.repthaddeusjones.com/black_men_police_killings.htm

Say Their Names Memorials
https://www.saytheirnamesmemorials.com/

All of Us or None, Volume 2, Issue 4 | July 2020
https://prisonerswithchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/NEWS-July2020-web.pdf

Gun Violence Archive
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

Fatal Encounters
https://fatalencounters.org/

Cop Blaster
https://www.copblaster.com

2019 Police Deaths Comparison between Wapo and Fatal Encounters : Sheet1
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjGpcHmjfXwAhX0Ap0JHRu2DFAQFjASegQIDhAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1cl0aQBx1EpOqJFfmwrkaeQwu8SYX54kQDpgiLcwQcMo%2Fhtmlview&usg=AOvVaw3r1k7FAKXxEOLrT71rDddE

Care Rockbridge
https://carerockbridge.org/vigil-names

The National Cop Watch Report
https://www.tncopwatch.com

SAY THEIR NAMES
https://www.saytheirnames.us/

End Bias Wiki
https://ebwiki.org/

Gun Memorial
https://gunmemorial.org/