Resources

Obtained from thousands of state agencies, prosecutors, police departments and sheriffs, the records detail at least 200,000 incidents of alleged misconduct, much of it previously unreported. The records obtained include more than 110,000 internal affairs investigations by hundreds of individual departments and more than 30,000 officers who were decertified by 44 state oversight agencies.

This report makes recommendations to the Workgroup on the Prevention of Profiling by Law Enforcement (WPPLE) in four core areas of police reform: Data Collection, Analysis and Reporting; Accountability Mechanisms, Training, and Procedural Justice.

A report that details biased police practices and their effects on communities. It also provides a set of best practices implemented across the country that can be used to challenge counties and local municipalities into adopting reforms.

A collection of reports that serve as scorecards for county policing and prosecution practices for multiple states. Reports include policy solutions and tools for communities to challenge local leaders to adopt proven reform strategies.

This report examines the first causal evidence of the impact of aggressive policing on minority youths’ educational performance in NYC. Using data collected from 250,000 adolescents ages nine to 15, results support the idea that exposure to increased police presence significantly reduced test scores for African American boys.

This report provides an overview of the existing landscape in local police oversight efforts, including a survey of the field, characteristics of oversight bodies, and issues with oversight models.

This report focuses primarily on policies specifically governing police interactions with transgender people, including non-discrimination statements, recognition of non-binary identities in applicable policies, use of respectful communication, recording information in department forms, search procedures, transportation, placement in temporary lock-up facilities, access to medication, removal of appearance related items, training, and bathroom access.

This report looks at the increasing use of predictive policing systems that are built on data produced during documented periods of flawed, racially biased, and sometimes unlawful practices and policies. Using three case study examples, it examines the negative impact of these systems based on “dirty data.”

A report that looks at differences in attitudes toward police by race and ethnicity in the United States. It also looks at potential influences on these attitudes, such as perceived bias, anxiety about crime, perceived competence of police, cases of police misconduct, and more. The report concludes with potential policies for policing reform.