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Topic: Bias in Policing

Opening the Chicago Surveillance Fund

Through the last year and a half, MuckRock and Lucy Parsons Lab have used FOIA to investigate the use of...

The MTA’s False Fare Evasion Narrative

MTA representatives often claim the “problem” of fare evasion can be policed away. No credible evidence supports this narrative. This...

Do Police Killings of Unarmed Persons Really Have Spillover Effects? Reanalyzing Bor et al. (2018)

Researchers reevaluate the claim from Bor et al. (2018) that “police killings of unarmed Black Americans have effects on mental...

Police Killings and Their Spillover Effects on the Mental Health of Black Americans: A Population-Based, Quasi-Experimental Study

In this report, researchers examined data on police killings with individual-level data to estimate the impact of police killings of...

Normalizing Injustice: The Dangerous Misrepresentations That Define Television’s Scripted Crime Genre

This report presents the results of a landmark research study that examined depictions of the criminal justice system - as...

Joint Report: Analysis of APD Racial Profiling Data (Austin, TX)

The Office of Police Oversight, Office of Innovation, and the Equity Office engaged in data analysis to understand how various...

Decriminalizing Survival: Policy Platform and Polling on the Decriminalization of Sex Work

This report briefly contextualizes the issue of decriminalizing sex work, discusses how this is a part of effective anti-trafficking policy,...

Tracked and Targeted: Early Findings On Chicago’s Gang Database (2018)

This preliminary report summarizes what the Policing in Chicago Research Group has been able to discover, as well as what...

Expansive and Focused Surveillance: New Findings on Chicago’s Gang Database (2018)

Building on previous research into the Chicago Police Department's (CPD) gang database, this report analyzes new statistics focused on the...