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Murders and shootings

Murders and shootings recorded in Wikidata, nearly all with a Wikipedia article: the cases written about, not a crime statistic.

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What you see

  • Each one as a teal mark sized by the number killed, which nearly half the records give.
  • A page for each, with its date and its Wikipedia summary.
  • Opened from this page, the map plays 1960 to today.

Where the data comes from

  • WikidataItems that are murders or shootings, with a date and a place; 98% have a Wikipedia article.

Taken from Wikidata when the set is imported; a case added there since appears after the next import.

Good to know

  • Only cases with an article: the record follows the press and Wikipedia’s editors, not police figures.
  • The United States holds about a third of them, and Britain and Japan together about one in six.
  • About one in five is placed only at a district or a country, some from the place the item’s description names where Wikidata gives no point.

The deadliest recorded here

The first recorded here in each century

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