A. SUMMARY This dataset contains public information on police misconduct cases split up by unique allegations. This includes case numbers, dates of receipt, incident locations, police districts involved, allegations made, investigation findings, issuance dates of findings, and case closure dates. Its purpose is to enhance transparency and accountability by providing accessible details about alleged misconduct to the public. By offering insights into the scope and outcomes of investigations, it enables citizens to stay informed about incidents in their communities, fostering trust and facilitating discussions on police accountability and reform efforts. Access to this dataset empowers individuals to monitor the progress of cases and engage in constructive dialogue to promote positive change in law enforcement practices. B. HOW THE DATASET IS CREATED The data set is created when a complaint is made to DPA. DPA opens the case and date is developed through out the life of the case. C. UPDATE PROCESS The data is downloaded once a week from DPA’s Case Management System. D. HOW TO USE THIS DATASET The dataset includes information on complaints received and closed in the current calendar year. Some cases will display received dates in previous years due to them being closed out in the current year. E. RELATED DATASETS Police Accountability Misconduct Cases and Allegations

As of August 2020, ** percent of respondents in the United States thought that the police are not usually held accountable for misconduct, while ** percent thought that the police were held accountable for misconduct.

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The rate of fatal police shootings in the United States shows large differences based on ethnicity. Among Black Americans, the rate of fatal police shootings between 2015 and December 2024 stood at 6.1 per million of the population per year, while for white Americans, the rate stood at 2.4 fatal police shootings per million of the population per year. Police brutality in the United States Police brutality is a major issue in the United States, but recently saw a spike in online awareness and protests following the murder of George Floyd, an African American who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer. Just a few months before, Breonna Taylor was fatally shot in her apartment when Louisville police officers forced entry into her apartment. Despite the repeated fatal police shootings across the country, police accountability has not been adequate according to many Americans. A majority of Black Americans thought that police officers were not held accountable for their misconduct, while less than half of White Americans thought the same. Political opinions Not only are there differences in opinion between ethnicities on police brutality, but there are also major differences between political parties. A majority of Democrats in the United States thought that police officers were not held accountable for their misconduct, while a majority of Republicans that they were held accountable. Despite opposing views on police accountability, both Democrats and Republicans agree that police should be required to be trained in nonviolent alternatives to deadly force.

This dataset represents complaints against employees of the Seattle Police Department (SPD). The data is pulled from dynamic, live databases and is subject to change. Each row represents an individual allegation of misconduct from a Complainant against an individual SPD employee. A single OPA case may contain one or more Complainant(s), Named Employee(s), and Allegation(s) against each Named Employee. Data is denormalized to represent the one-to-many relationship between the Complaint and all the associated allegations. USE CAUTION WHEN COUNTING

This report describes the purpose for developing the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), a centralized repository of official records documenting instances of law enforcement officer misconduct as well as commendations and awards to help inform hiring, job assignment, and promotion decisions. It also provides statistics on the NLEAD’s records, the federal law enforcement officers included, and its usage. This is the first annual report, and it covers NLEAD records for events occurring in calendar years 2018 to 2023 and usage of the NLEAD from January 1, 2024 to August 31, 2024.Downloaded from BJS website on 2025-02-25.

This data was obtained from https://mappingpoliceviolence.us/.

Mapping Police Violence is a 501(c)(3) organization that publishes the most comprehensive and up-to-date data on police violence in America to support transformative change.

This is a database set on openly sharing information on police violence in America.

Some information on this data according to their website: Our data has been meticulously sourced from official police use of force data collection programs in states like California, Texas and Virginia, combined with nationwide data from The Gun Violence Archive and the Fatal Encounters database, two impartial crowdsourced databases. We've also done extensive original research to further improve the quality and completeness of the data; searching social media, obituaries, criminal records databases, police reports and other sources to identify the race of 90 percent of all victims in the database.

We believe the data represented on this site is the most comprehensive accounting of people killed by police since 2013. Note that the Mapping Police Violence database is more comprehensive than the Washington Post police shootings database: while WaPo only tracks cases where people are fatally shot by on-duty police officers, our database includes additional incidents such as cases where police kill someone through use of a chokehold, baton, taser or other means as well as cases such as killings by off-duty police. A recent report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated approximately 1,200 people were killed by police between June, 2015 and May, 2016. Our database identified 1,100 people killed by police over this time period. While there are undoubtedly police killings that are not included in our database (namely, those that go unreported by the media), these estimates suggest that our database captures 92% of the total number of police killings that have occurred since 2013. We hope these data will be used to provide greater transparency and accountability for police departments as part of the ongoing work to end police violence in America.

Complaints received by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability and its predecessor agency. Each complaint is represented by a single line. When multiple people are involved, values for each of them are separated by the | character. In all such columns, the people are presented in the same order. For example, the first value in one column corresponds to the same person as the first value in another column. Other than identifying the Log Number associated with an investigation being conducted by the Bureau of Internal Affairs section of the Chicago Police Department, information regarding such investigations is not included in this data set.

The handling of citizens' complaints against the police across national and jurisdictional boundaries is difficult to compare as available data are generally incompatible or absent. Independent police complaints bodies (IPCBs) are highly vulnerable to criticism of being costly and ineffective. The aim of this comparative project was to provide the data needed for contextualisation of IPCBs through long-term, in-depth comparison of the functioning of IPCBs in the UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. The findings can be used to contextualise IPCBs in other countries.

The methodologies behind the data collection were designed to match the data available for the five countries, to recommend common principles for data collection, and to best highlight similarities and dissimilarities in the handling of citizens’ complaints by IPCBs in all five countries. Quantitative data were gleaned from IPCB annual reports. Due to highly dissimilar methodologies for data collection and definitions of categories, an important outcome of the project was to identify information that needed to be collected for some IPCBs, and recommend consistent formats for data collection.

The UK the data cover three types, gleaned from the Independent Office for Police Complaints for England/Wales (IOPC), the Scottish Police Investigation and Review Commissioner (PIRC), and the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI).

First, transcripts of 22 interviews (out of a total of 27) conducted with IPBC practitioners, police, and criminal justice personnel involved with investigating, assessing, and sanctioning complaints against police officers. These interviews were conducted between September 2022 and April 2024.

Secondly, two reports were produced based on anonymised summaries of discussions from two stakeholder events, reflecting experiences, concerns, and suggestions for improvement of police complaints handling.

Finally, included visualisations of the institutional set-up of the IPCB, PIRC and PONI, to illustrate the range and diversity of arrangements for UK IPCBs.

Against the backdrop of increased powers and resources granted to police agencies for combating terrorism and other newly perceived threats in many mature democracies, the POLACS project compares levels of empowerment for citizens through accountability mechanisms (independent external oversight bodies, police complaints procedures and similar schemes). Additional police powers, technologies and transnational police networks add to the already far-reaching powers that police agencies have, granting the police new and powerful ways of monitoring and interfering in citizens' lives and thus their fundamental rights. Yet, it has often proven to be very difficult to get the reform of police complaints procedures onto the political agenda. Today, with audio-video recording equipment becoming ubiquitous and with encounters between police and members of the public disseminated instantly via the internet, the issue has moved from the fringes to the mainstream as a live political issue. Researchers from Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK have been cooperating in the POLACS project. In the light of persistent public concerns in many democratic countries about effective police accountability, particularly in cases of death or serious injury to members of the public, there is an urgent need to improve the empirical basis for comparison of external independent police accountability schemes and to develop international standards for 'good practice'. The project has also explored the accountability structures for transnational policing within institutional frameworks, such as Interpol or the European Union's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, as well as in transnational police networks. For transnational policing, mostly situated outside national parliamentary oversight and access to justice, accountability can be perceived as particularly deficient. The academic investigators involved in the POLACS project, with their theoretical and empirical expertise on police accountability, have been revising and adapting current accountability theories and standards to the empirical reality that has been rapidly developing since the 1990s. Comparison has been adopted as the most effective methodological approach for contextualising performance of national and sub-national schemes and a necessary basis for developing international standards for 'good practice'. Policy-makers, practitioners and activists involved in reforming external police accountability mechanisms face great difficulties in contextualising current or proposed schemes with other schemes, past and present, as the available qualitative insights and quantitative data are often not comparable. Only by bringing existing data and knowledge together will it be possible to contextualise national and sub-national police accountability schemes and identify what data and insights are missing.

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they there received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except of the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompany readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collections and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed. This study interviewed young men living in New York City about their experiences being stopped by the police on the street or in their cars. It examined how experience with the police as well as general evaluations of police policies, practices and behaviors in the respondent's neighborhood shaped views about police legitimacy, and law related behavior, such as compliance with the law and cooperation with legal authorities.

Complaints received by the Chicago Police Department Bureau of Internal Affairs (BIA). BIA investigates complaints of police misconduct that do not fall under the jurisdiction of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA). Types of misconduct investigated by BIA include the following (not a complete list): Criminal misconduct Operational violations Theft of money or property Planting of drugs Substance abuse Residency violations Medical roll abuse A case will generate multiple rows, sharing the same LOG_NO if there are multiple officers. Each row in this dataset is an officer in a specific case. To file a complaint with either BIA or COPA, please see https://www.chicagocopa.org/complaints.

Following the May 25th death of George Floyd while in police custody, wide-ranging protests and demonstrations against the use of excessive force by police officers and lack of police accountability were held in multiple U.S. cities and abroad. During a June 2020 survey, only ** percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 34 years stated that they had a more favorable view of brands who posted their support of the police on social media. However, ** percent of respondents aged 65 years and above had a more favorable view of brands doing so. Some of the consequences of Floyd's death include demonstrations, public outcry, and increased discourse regarding racial inequality and the impact of the currents state of policing in the United States on social media.

Complaints received by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability and its predecessor agency.

A case will generate multiple rows, sharing the same LOG_NO if there are multiple officers. Each row in this dataset is an officer in a specific case.

Other than identifying the Log Number associated with an investigation being conducted by the Bureau of Internal Affairs section of the Chicago Police Department, information regarding such investigations is not included in this data set.

Here are the main indicators used in the paper "Losing control is not an option. Resource allocation to police oversight agencies in Western states".

This report presents key performance indicators (KPIs) used to track and evaluate core activities and outcomes of the Police Department. The data is published to promote transparency, accountability, and data-driven decision-making within the community. Each metric provides insight into areas such as public safety, enforcement activity, community engagement, and operational efficiency.

Included Measures May Cover:

• Total Crimes Against Persons
• Total Crimes Against Property
• Total Crimes Against Society
• Traffic Stops
• Total Calls for Service
• Adult Arrests

Purpose

To provide residents, stakeholders, and decision-makers with timely and accessible data about law enforcement activity and crime trends in the community. This report supports efforts to improve service delivery, align resources with community needs, and enhance public trust through open government practices.

Abstract The aim of this paper is to identify the factors associated with the performance of police internal affairs divisions. Little is known about the performance determinants of organizations crafted to prevent deviant behavior of civil servants. To reach our goal, we analyzed 797 administrative proceedings against 1.195 military police of a given Brazilian state between 2005 and 2012. Our quantitative analysis demonstrated that cases involving more experienced police officers and crimes with increased complexity are less likely to be concluded. Our results also suggest that social norms and internal codes inherent to police forces affects the extent of punishment to implicated officers: some crimes seem to be tolerated while others are abhorred by the police force. Surprisingly, an increased centralization in the investigative activity is not associated with increased efficiency of the investigation process. Actually, investigation commissions formed by police officers specialized in investigating their own peers are less likely to have their cases concluded or to condemn police officers. Our results contribute to theoretical debates on the design of watchdog organizations and the literature on organizational performance of accountability bodies.

The global police law enforcement recorder market is booming, driven by increased demand for accountability and transparency. Discover key trends, market size projections, leading companies, and growth forecasts for 2025-2033 in this comprehensive market analysis. Learn about the impact of body-worn cameras and future innovations.

The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, began the protest movement culminating in Black Lives Matter and an increased focus on police accountability nationwide.

Since Jan. 1, 2015, The Washington Post has been compiling a database of every fatal shooting in the US by a police officer in the line of duty. It's difficult to find reliable data from before this period, as police killings haven't been comprehensively documented, and the statistics on police brutality are much less available. As a result, a vast number of cases go unreported.

The Washington Post is tracking more than a dozen details about each killing - including the race, age and gender of the deceased, whether the person was armed, and whether the victim was experiencing a mental-health crisis. They have gathered this information from law enforcement websites, local new reports, social media, and by monitoring independent databases such as "Killed by police" and "Fatal Encounters". The Post has also conducted additional reporting in many cases.

There are four additional datasets. These are US census data on poverty rate, high school graduation rate, median household income, and racial demographics.

Source of census data: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_facts.xhtml