Black men with mental illness have been historically mistreated in the United States and I have been investigating if there is any evidence of that in the dataset. To do this I am checking if black men with mental illness are being disproportionately represented in the dataset, when compared with the total population of the United States.
I am also looking at the “threat_type” variable compared with the “armed_with” variable. If a person is threatening a policeman by pointing at them, but they are only armed with a blunt weapon, that is not a valid reason to use lethal force and if this happens repeatedly, then it is a problem that should be recorded/reported.