NewYorkTimesAnalysis

	A	B	C	H	I	J	K	L
1	State	Population	Violent Crime rate	State Abb	# fatal encounters 6/13-12/14	Rate per 100,000	Rank crime	Rank encounters
2	New Mexico	2,085,538	559.1	NM	28	0.89	5	1
3	District of Columbia	632,323	1243.7	DC	8	0.84	1	2
4	Arizona	6,553,255	428.9	AZ	74	0.75	16	3
5	Nevada	2,758,931	607.6	NV	29	0.70	3	4
6	Oklahoma	3,814,820	469.3	OK	39	0.68	11	5
7	Maine	1,329,192	122.7	ME	11	0.55	51	6
8	Montana	1,005,141	272.2	MT	8	0.53	35	7
9	California	38,041,430	423.1	CA	293	0.51	17	8
10	Florida	19,317,568	487.1	FL	145	0.50	9	9
11	Mississippi	2,984,926	260.8	MS	22	0.49	37	10
12	Washington	6,897,012	295.6	WA	50	0.48	31	11
13	Louisiana	4,601,893	496.9	LA	33	0.48	8	12
14	Alabama	4,822,023	449.9	AL	34	0.47	15	13
15	Utah	2,855,287	205.8	UT	20	0.47	46	14
16	Kansas	2,885,905	354.6	KS	19	0.44	23	15
17	Missouri	6,021,988	450.9	MO	39	0.43	14	16
18	West Virginia	1,855,413	316.3	WV	12	0.43	28	17
19	Colorado	5,187,582	308.9	CO	33	0.42	29	18
20	Texas	26,059,203	408.6	TX	165	0.42	19	19
21	Oregon	3,899,353	247.6	OR	24	0.41	40	20
22	South Carolina	4,723,723	558.8	SC	29	0.41	6	21
23	Maryland	5,884,563	476.8	MD	36	0.41	10	22
24	South Dakota	833,354	321.8	SD	5	0.40	27	23
25	Kentucky	4,380,415	222.6	KY	26	0.40	44	24
26	Delaware	917,092	547.4	DE	5	0.36	7	25
27	Tennessee	6,456,243	643.6	TN	34	0.35	2	26
28	Wyoming	576,412	201.4	WY	3	0.35	47	27
29	Arkansas	2,949,131	469.1	AR	15	0.34	12	28
30	Georgia	9,919,945	378.9	GA	50	0.34	22	29
31	North Carolina	9,752,073	353.4	NC	46	0.31	24	30
32	Idaho	1,595,728	207.9	ID	7	0.29	45	31
33	Nebraska	1,855,525	259.4	NE	8	0.29	38	32
34	Hawaii	1,392,313	239.2	HI	6	0.29	42	33
35	Iowa	3,074,186	263.9	IA	13	0.28	36	34
36	Alaska	731,449	603.2	AK	3	0.27	4	35
37	Ohio	11,544,225	299.7	OH	47	0.27	30	36
38	Illinois	12,875,255	414.8	IL	52	0.27	18	37
39	Minnesota	5,379,139	230.9	MN	20	0.25	43	38
40	Indiana	6,537,334	345.7	IN	24	0.24	26	39
41	Wisconsin	5,726,398	280.5	WI	19	0.22	34	40
42	Vermont	626,011	142.6	VT	2	0.21	50	41
43	North Dakota	699,628	244.7	ND	2	0.19	41	42
44	Connecticut	3,590,347	283	CT	10	0.19	33	43
45	Pennsylvania	12,763,536	348.7	PA	34	0.18	25	44
46	Virginia	8,185,867	190.1	VA	21	0.17	48	45
47	Michigan	9,883,360	454.5	MI	23	0.16	13	46
48	Massachusetts	6,646,144	405.5	MA	15	0.15	21	47
49	New Jersey	8,864,590	290.2	NJ	20	0.15	32	48
50	New York	19,570,261	406.8	NY	38	0.13	20	49
51	New Hampshire	1,320,718	187.9	NH	2	0.10	49	50
52	Rhode Island	1,050,292	252.4	RI	1	0.06	39	51
53
54	US	313,914,040	386.88		1702	0.54
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56	Note: Population and crime numbers are from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Report from 2012, the most recent available.
57	Police-involved killings are from the Fatal Encounters database, June 2013-December 2014, excluding accidents and suicides.
58	Most analyses exclude the District of Columbia.