Pauls' Revere
11-06-2019, 07:52 AM
https://www.acleddata.com/
Under analysis you can select countries by drop down menu. Here is the link to for the U.S. here are the preliminary findings.
https://www.acleddata.com/2019/11/05/assessing-political-violence-demonstrations-in-the-united-states-acled-pilot-data-preliminary-findings/
For three months from July through September 2019, ACLED conducted a pilot project to collect data on political violence and protest across the United States, setting out to identify the most prevalent forms of disorder and to establish comprehensive and consistent source lists for gathering relevant information. This report presents preliminary findings and lessons learned from the pilot project, providing a snapshot of the country’s evolving disorder landscape ahead of the 2020 general election.
Please find a full PDF version of the report here.
ACLED is currently seeking support to continue data collection for the US. If you wish to assist the project, please contact us at admin@acleddata.com.
Over three months in the United States there were more than 3,000 political violence and protest events. Nearly 50 people were reported killed in politically motivated violence. Demonstrators took to the streets in all 50 states.
Reports suggest the situation is intensifying: hate crimes are on the rise (Washington Post, 13 August 2019), police brutality is increasing (The Appeal, 17 April 2018), and mass shootings are getting deadlier (LA Times, 1 September 2019). Many link these trends to the polarized political climate, and especially to the rhetoric of US President Donald Trump (Guardian, 28 August 2019; see also, Edwards & Rushin, 2018).
But what do these data show? Numerous data projects and initiatives exist across the US, each capturing a piece of the broad spectrum of disorder occurring around the country. Projects like the Gun Violence Archive track mass shootings; the various organizational members of Communities Against Hate track hate crimes against a wide swathe of identity groups; the Southern Poverty Law Center monitors the activities of extremist groups; the Washington Post has logged fatal police shootings; initiatives like Count Love and the Crowd Counting Consortium have been tracking demonstrations. There is no shortage of innovative data projects. However, no initiative has brought together all of these various forms of political violence and protest, under one methodology, to allow for a full picture of disorder in the US, as well as to allow for cross-country comparisons with other countries around the world.
For the first time, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has applied its methodology for real-time monitoring of political violence and protest to the US, providing a snapshot of the country’s evolving disorder landscape ahead of the 2020 general election. For three months from July through September 2019, ACLED conducted a pilot project to collect data on political violence and unrest across the country,1 setting out to identify the most prevalent forms of disorder and to establish comprehensive and consistent source lists for gathering relevant information.2
This report presents preliminary findings and lessons learned from the pilot project, concentrating on what political violence and protest activity look like in the US; the different trends identified over three months of data collection; the best sourcing strategies to capture the range of disorder; and the methodological challenges that emerged.
Under analysis you can select countries by drop down menu. Here is the link to for the U.S. here are the preliminary findings.
https://www.acleddata.com/2019/11/05/assessing-political-violence-demonstrations-in-the-united-states-acled-pilot-data-preliminary-findings/
For three months from July through September 2019, ACLED conducted a pilot project to collect data on political violence and protest across the United States, setting out to identify the most prevalent forms of disorder and to establish comprehensive and consistent source lists for gathering relevant information. This report presents preliminary findings and lessons learned from the pilot project, providing a snapshot of the country’s evolving disorder landscape ahead of the 2020 general election.
Please find a full PDF version of the report here.
ACLED is currently seeking support to continue data collection for the US. If you wish to assist the project, please contact us at admin@acleddata.com.
Over three months in the United States there were more than 3,000 political violence and protest events. Nearly 50 people were reported killed in politically motivated violence. Demonstrators took to the streets in all 50 states.
Reports suggest the situation is intensifying: hate crimes are on the rise (Washington Post, 13 August 2019), police brutality is increasing (The Appeal, 17 April 2018), and mass shootings are getting deadlier (LA Times, 1 September 2019). Many link these trends to the polarized political climate, and especially to the rhetoric of US President Donald Trump (Guardian, 28 August 2019; see also, Edwards & Rushin, 2018).
But what do these data show? Numerous data projects and initiatives exist across the US, each capturing a piece of the broad spectrum of disorder occurring around the country. Projects like the Gun Violence Archive track mass shootings; the various organizational members of Communities Against Hate track hate crimes against a wide swathe of identity groups; the Southern Poverty Law Center monitors the activities of extremist groups; the Washington Post has logged fatal police shootings; initiatives like Count Love and the Crowd Counting Consortium have been tracking demonstrations. There is no shortage of innovative data projects. However, no initiative has brought together all of these various forms of political violence and protest, under one methodology, to allow for a full picture of disorder in the US, as well as to allow for cross-country comparisons with other countries around the world.
For the first time, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has applied its methodology for real-time monitoring of political violence and protest to the US, providing a snapshot of the country’s evolving disorder landscape ahead of the 2020 general election. For three months from July through September 2019, ACLED conducted a pilot project to collect data on political violence and unrest across the country,1 setting out to identify the most prevalent forms of disorder and to establish comprehensive and consistent source lists for gathering relevant information.2
This report presents preliminary findings and lessons learned from the pilot project, concentrating on what political violence and protest activity look like in the US; the different trends identified over three months of data collection; the best sourcing strategies to capture the range of disorder; and the methodological challenges that emerged.