Sources
Institutions, Research Entities, Data Bases, and Individuals
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School
A nonpartisan law and policy institute. “We strive to uphold the values of democracy. We stand for equal justice and the rule of law. We work to craft and advance reforms that will make American democracy work, for all.”
Campaign ZERO
A nonprofit police reform campaign launched August 21, 2015 dedicated to: “ . . . the analysis of policing practices across the country, research to identify effective solutions to end police violence, technical assistance to organizers leading police accountability campaigns and the development of model legislation and advocacy to end police violence nationwide.”
Center for Policing Equity (CPE)
A Yale University based research center. CPE:
“produces analyses identifying and reducing the causes of racial disparities in public safety and advocates for large-scale and meaningful change. Using evidence-based approaches to social justice, we use data to create levers for social, cultural and policy change.
We are research scientists, race and equity experts, data virtuosos, and community trainers. We use data to build a more fair and just system. We partner with law enforcement and communities. Our aim is to bridge the divide of communication, generational mistrust, and suffering. But most of all, we are the path that science can forge towards public safety, community trust, and racial equity.”
CPE maintains the National Justice Database (NJD) - the nation’s first database tracking national statistics on police behavior, standardizing data collection practices, and spurring data-driven reforms in participating departments.
CPE has undertaken a COMPSTAT for Justice (C4J) initiative. The vision of COMPSTAT for Justice (C4J) is to help communities and their police agencies come together to create safer, healthier and more just communities. The Center for Policing Equity (CPE) exists to elevate the voices of Black, Latinx, Indigenous and other marginalized communities and to help police departments use data to hold themselves accountable not just for crime, but for the outcomes of police actions on the communities they serve.
Police Reform Project – Empire Justice Center
Mapping Police Violence
A research collaborative collecting comprehensive data on police killings nationwide to quantify the impact of police violence in communities.
National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement
New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS)
Comparison of Population to Arrests and Prison Sentences by Race/Ethnicity, County, and Region
Dispositions of Adult Arrests by Race/Ethnicity, County, and Region
New York State’s Open Data Portal – Public Safety Data
The Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School
The Innocence Project
JUSTICEMAPPING Network
Led by Eric Cadora, Justice Mapping is a consulting network of subject area experts and information technology specialists who study criminal justice operations and surrounding neighborhood conditions at the local level, both in the U.S. and around the world. We produce maps, reports, data sites, and other data visualization tools designed to help philanthropies, policymakers, and advocates reframe justice policy around places, coordinate operations in neighborhoods, and reinvest in safer communities.
Police Executive Research Forum (PERF)
A nonprofit police research and policy organization of police executives. PERF is dedicated to improving policing and advancing professionalism through research and involvement in public policy debate. PERF provides management services, technical assistance, and executive-level education to support law enforcement agencies.
RAND Corporation
“A research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous.”
The Police Data Initiative (PDI)
Participating New York Police Agencies - Police Data Initiative
The Policing Project at the New York University School of Law
A dynamic, growing organization dedicated to bringing democratic accountability to policing. We work with communities and police departments across the country to ensure that agency policies and practices are transparent, efficacious, and adopted with public input.
The Marshall Project
“A nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system.”
The staffs of The Marshall Project, Alabama Media Group, The Indianapolis Star and the Invisible Institute were awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their yearlong investigation of K-9 units and the damage that police dogs inflict on Americans, which was published in their series “Mauled: When Police Dogs are Weapons.”
The Stanford Open Policing Project
Formerly known as Law Order & Algorithms project, the Stanford Open Policing Project of the Stanford University Computational Policy Lab launched its website on June 19, 2017 to provide access to the data collected about police stops around the country and to provide information about research that this data is driving.
The Opportunity Atlas
An initial release of social mobility data - the result of a collaboration between researchers at the Census Bureau, Harvard University, and Brown University.
TheCircuit
A data-driven collaboration to investigate and reveal how Cook County’s courts work.
Better Government Association - Illinois’ Non-Partisan Full-Service Watchdog
For nearly 100 years, the Better Government Association has fought corruption, waste, secrecy and inequity by shining a spotlight on the workings of government in Illinois.
U.S. Census Bureau
Officially the Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census, the Census Bureau is responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing by the nation’s state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) (Survey Type: National Survey on Drug Use and Health)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation. SAMSHA’s mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities.
Frank R. Baumgartner holds the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professorship in the Department of Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is one of the country's leading scholars of public policy, framing, agenda-setting, policy change, and lobbying and has published extensively on these topics in both US and comparative perspectives. In recent years, he has focused on statistical studies of criminal justice issues, including the death penalty, racial disparities in traffic stop outcomes, and other issues. His most recent book is Suspect Citizens (Cambridge, 2018), focusing on racial differences in the outcomes of routine traffic stops; this book was recognized with the Best Book Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association in 2019. He is currently working on a number of projects relating to race and criminal justice outcomes.