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Data analyses are a powerful tool to help shed light on how policing affects a community. When properly collected, analyzed, and shared, data can pinpoint issues driving inequity, opportunities to redirect resources to better achieve public safety, and build evidence for future changes. However, while most police departments collect some kind of data about their basic activities, such as stops, they do so in different ways – and some may not publish their data at all.
Communities, police departments, and lawmakers are taking steps to use departmental data to answer important questions about whether police interactions with the people they are expected to serve are effective and equitable.
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Data by-the-numbers
Approximately half of all states require any police data collection about traffic and pedestrian stops.
Data analyzed by the Center for Policing Equity from jurisdictions nationwide shows that police stop and use force on Black people at disproportionately high rates relative to White people.
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