Nick Selby Talks Data...Big Data
What happens when you use data instead of anecdotes to
study the information behind police shootings? You get facts and
not rhetoric. You get a place to start a real conversation about
situations that need a deeper look.It's amazing what Nick Selby and
his team are doing with data research to get to the bottom of the
real story. You can't argue with facts and physics and when those
get backed up by data, you have a pretty solid foundation for
understanding. 
You have to go look at the study that the team put together
here:
Police Killings In Context
About Nick Selby

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
StreetCred CEO and co-Founder Nick Selby was sworn as a
police officer in 2010, and currently serves as an investigator at
a police agency in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. His focus is on
crimes that leverage the Internet, such as fraud, organized retail
crime, identity theft and child exploitation.
He was an information security analyst and consultant for ten
years, and has worked in physical security and intelligence
consulting in various roles since 1993. He is co-author of
Blackhatonomics: An Inside Look at the Economics of Cybercrime
(Syngress, 2012) and technical editor of Investigating Internet
Crimes (Syngress, 2013).
In 2005 he established the information security practice at
industry analyst firm The 451 Group, where he conducted in-depth
interviews with and consulted more than 1000 technology vendors,
and a range of Fortune 1000 and government clients. In 2007 he was
appointed 451’s VP of Research Operations. Since 2008 he has
focused on law enforcement intelligence, while managing a boutique
consultancy that provided cyber-incident response services to
Fortune 250 companies.
He co-founded StreetCred Software, Inc., in 2012.
Nick has consulted hundreds of venture-backed startups on
understanding their competitive landscape, on product development
and feature enhancements, user interface and security. He has
consulted US and European governments, more than 80 investment
banks, more than 20 venture capital firms: on the investment side,
to better understand the technology and landscape of the companies
into which they invested, and on the operations side on securing
their intellectual property and processes.