At the height of police refunds, many left-wing activists will repeatedly spread hyperbola about the number of unarmed Americans shot and killed by police.

If you’re an unconscious MSNBC viewer who believes in propaganda, you’ll think that police across the country are brutal, dangerous, and of course, horribly racist. But a glance at the actual data will shock you to learn that police shootings are far more unusual than activists and liberal media made them. No, the police department is not a tense death machine that targets thousands of black Americans every day. Yes, the unarmed white man was also shot dead. (Subscribe to Mr. Right, a weekly newsletter on modern masculinity)

Big bummer.
The Washington Post has finished its police shooting database. This was a very useful source. Especially when police deal with people they think would kill unarmed people of the 1000s.

I don’t know if I’ve woken up, or if it’s just finished to cut budgets. pic.twitter.com/10ishwfy6e

– Carl (@historyboomer) June 23, 2025

One such outlet, the Washington Post, had a useful database that tracked police shootings that occurred since January 1, 2015. This data helped dispel the exaggerated anti-political narrative that coolerhead had grasped American politics in 2020 and years later.

However, at the beginning of 2025, the outlet It ended quietly That database remains unknown. Perhaps it had something to do with the general mood of the news media after the WAPO’s imminent editorial shakeup at the request of owner Jeff Bezos, or the election of President Donald Trump and the obvious malice ending. Perhaps the reason is as simple as budget cuts.

I believe it is because the data they generated no longer supports anti-political narratives. It would be very embarrassing to have a media outlet reveal OP-EDs and features on racist police station cruelty while also building a database of opposition.