Resources

Police departments are adopting body-worn cameras in hopes of improving civilian–police interactions. In a large-scale field experiment (2,224 officers of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC), researchers randomly assigned officers to receive cameras or not. They tracked subsequent police behavior for a minimum of 7 months using administrative data. Results indicate that cameras did not meaningfully affect police behavior on a range of outcomes, including complaints and use of force. This report conclude that the effects of cameras are likely smaller than many have hoped.

As a first step in creating tools that center diverse groups of stakeholders in policing data analytics, Jared Knowles has built a prototype dashboard to interactively explore police arrest data across the United States.

Data on policing is not always available or accessible, resulting in a paradox of democratic accountability. This report by Jared Knowles, creator and president of Civilytics, examines the issue of data accessibility and ways in which that accessibility can be improved and how data can be used to push for police accountability and reform.

This report offers data about juvenile justice specific to Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago, to analyze ways in which the juvenile justice system disproportionately targets youth of color, including through arrests.

This report is the result of collaboration between students in an introductory GIS course at Loyola University and Project NIA. Using data obtained through a request to the Chicago Police Department (CPD), the students used GIS to map and analyze school day crimes and arrests, estimate youth by race within CPD districts, illustrate patterns of juvenile arrests by CPD district, and provide preliminary critical analysis of youth arrest patterns in Chicago to offer suggestions for future research.

This is a visual report of juvenile arrests in Chicago and an overview of juvenile arrests and incarceration in Illinois, Cook County and Chicago.

Born of the passion of neighborhood mothers outraged at the NYPD’s treatment of their sons, this report spent two years documenting experiences of policing in a 40-block community near Yankee stadium. The collaborative research team of neighborhood residents in the South Bronx and members of the Public Science Project, the CUNY Graduate Center, John Jay College, and Pace University Law Center conducted focus groups of local residents, creating and analyzing a comprehensive survey that was distributed throughout the neighborhood. 1,030 residents took the survey, sharing their attitudes and experiences with police. These are the results.

This video short shows the process of “critical mapping” used to represent the cumulative and uneven impact of hot spot policing across New York City – every NYPD police stop, every hour, for the entire year of 2011. The process is called “critical mapping” because researchers use maps to interrogate and speak back to the “official” maps that label neighborhoods a “hot spot” of crime.

Researchers for Fair Policing is an intergenerational team of researchers from Make the Road New York & the Public Science Project. These videos are a collection of stories of young people’s experiences with the police and school safety officers. There have been over 1 million young people stopped over the past few years, each of these experiences is unique. As you listen to the stories, consider how the NYPD’s long history of aggressive, zero-tolerance policing policies are impacting young people and what should be done about it.