On 31 March 2024, 91.6% of police officers were White, and 8.4% were from Asian, Black, Mixed, and Other ethnic backgrounds.

In 2020, **** percent of full-time sworn officers in local police departments in the United States identified as white males, followed by **** percent of officers who identified as Hispanic males.

In 2024, approximately 8.4 percent of police officers in England and Wales were from ethnic minority backgrounds, compared with 8.1 percent in 2022, and just 3.5 percent in 2005.

This dataset contains Phoenix Police Department officer demographics as of January 1st of each year starting in 2018. All ranks of sworn employees are included.

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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.

The data shows the number and percentage of people working for the police who come from different ethnic groups. It covers the 43 police forces in England and Wales, and the British Transport Police.

The figures are based on Home Office police workforce data, and are published on 'Ethnicity facts and figures'.

This data contains information related to officer-initated stops by the City of Boulder Police Department. Information on the demographics of the person stopped (sex, race, ethnicity, year of birth, whether they are a Boulder resident) is included in this file. See the "Outcomes of Police Stops" dataset for more details on the outcome of the stop (stop location, duration, search, and result). This demographic data is collected at the stop level, and no individual-level identifiers are recorded in the system during a stop.The data published are limited to stops where the officer initiated, or had discretion, in making a stop. Instances where an officer is responding to a community or police call are considered non-discretionary, and demographics information is not collected for those stops and not included here. There are some instances of non-discretion within a stop interaction as well. For example, there may be instances where there is an outstanding felony warrant for the person stopped, and by law the officer must arrest that person.Please read the methodology and data dictionary documents for more information. The fields for this demographics dataset are referred to as the "Main" file in the data dictionary.

Police complaints received, by police force area and ethnic appearance of complainant

Source: Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

Publisher: Ministry of Justice

Geographies: Police Force Area

Geographic coverage: England and Wales

Time coverage: 2006/07

Type of data: Administrative data

Replication data and code for Lyon and Malik, "Ethnicity & Policing in the Global South: Descriptive Representation & Expectations of Police Bias." Paper abstract: "City residents in the global south commonly encounter the police. Yet, outside of established democracies, we know little about how ethnicity shapes everyday policing in diverse urban contexts. Existing approaches generate competing expectations, with some arguing that officers are more rather than less discriminatory towards coethnics. We test these theories through a survey experiment conducted in Karachi, Pakistan – one of the world’s largest megacities. We find that civilians are only marginally less likely to expect procedural justice from non-coethnic officers, even in a context where ethnicity is highly salient. However, suggestive evidence indicates that this small effect is significantly magnified for respondents who perceive their group to be underrepresented in the police. Descriptive representation is therefore a powerful moderator of the relationship between ethnicity and expectations of police bias. These results have implications for the development of effective and legitimate police institutions in weakly institutionalized contexts."

This special topic poll, conducted January 21-24, 2001, assessed respondents' opinions about the New York City Police Department (NYCPD). Inhabitants of New York City (NYC) gave their opinions on the way Rudolph Giuliani was handling his job as mayor, the way the police in NYC were doing their jobs, occupational dangers for the police, race relations and life conditions in NYC, and racial profiling and brutality against minorities by the NYCPD. Respondents were also asked whether the NYCPD was a good place to work, whether they wanted to join the NYCPD, and whether their parents and friends would approve if they wanted to become police officers. The survey investigated whether police officers were appreciated by their communities and vice versa, whether police officers showed respect toward society, whether respondents had been in situations where they felt in personal danger or safer because of a police officer, and whether the city should require the police force to live in NYC. Those polled were also asked about their employment status and school attendance, family financial situation, whether they had relatives/friends who worked in NYC as police officers, and whether they or their family members had been the victims of a crime in NYC in the last year. Background information on respondents includes age, gender, education, race/ethnic identity, religion, political party affiliation, political orientation, marital status, and household income.

This dataset is about book series. It has 1 row and is filtered where the books is Black police associations : an analysis of race and ethnicity within constabularies. It features 10 columns including number of authors, number of books, earliest publication date, and latest publication date.

This dataset contains arrests made by law enforcement, capturing essential information about each arrest incident. This data is important for analyzing crime trends, understanding patterns in enforcement, assessing demographic impacts, and informing policies to improve fairness and effectiveness in criminal justice practices. Arrests may include summonses, delayed referrals, or other incidents where an individual is not transported to jail or holding facility. Data is from January 1st, 2023 to December 31st, 2023.For inquiries about the data, please call 515-283-4887.

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Enforcement Action Taken by Driver's Sex, Race, and Ethnicity

Report From 1/1/2014 through 1/31/2015

Enforcement Action Taken by Driver's Sex, Race, and Ethnicity

Report From 1/1/2014 through 1/31/2015

In the 2022/23 reporting year, the police in England and Wales were more than 3.4 times likely to use force against black people, when compared to white people. People of mixed, Asian and other ethnic groups were however likely to have force used against them by police forces.

The data shows:

• the number of stop and searches for different ethnic groups in England and Wales
• how many stop and searches there were for every 1,000 people in each ethnic group (the ‘rate’)

Data is also shown for the most police force areas.

Data comes from the Home Office and is published on 'Ethnicity facts and figures'.

In compliance with the 2015 Racial Identity Profiling Act, the Long Beach Police Department was one of seven law enforcement agencies required to begin collecting stop data on January 1, 2019, for individuals stopped by police and consensual encounters that resulted in a search. The Department will collect data for each calendar year and will submit the data to the California Department of Justice on an annual basis.

Data elements collected include demographic information of the stopped individuals that is perceived by the officer. This demographic information consists of race/ethnicity, gender, LGBT identity, age, English fluency, and perceived or known disability. The date, time, location, reason for stop, actions taken, contraband/evidence discovered, property seized, and result of stop are also included in the data collected.

Initial Purpose of Traffic Stop by Driver's Sex, Race, and Ethnicity.

Report From 1/1/2014 through 1/31/2015

Number of persons cautioned for notifiable offences, by police force area and ethnic appearance

Source: Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

Publisher: Ministry of Justice

Geographies: Police Force Area

Geographic coverage: England and Wales

Time coverage: 2006/07

Type of data: Administrative data

Percentage of arrests which resulted in a caution for notifiable offences, by police force area and ethnic appearance

Source: Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

Publisher: Ministry of Justice

Geographies: Police Force Area

Geographic coverage: England and Wales

Time coverage: 2006/07

Type of data: Administrative data

The race of persons stopped by the San Diego Police Department, as perceived by the officer conducting the stop. This data is collected according to requirements set forth in Government Code section 12525.5 that was enacted as a result of the Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015 (AB 953), also known as RIPA. The file contains one row per perceived race per person stopped by Police. An officer may perceive more than one race for a person stopped. The person stopped is uniquely identified in the pid field, and the stop is uniquely identified in the stop_id field. These two fields can be used to join this dataset to the other RIPA datasets available at the following links: (Deprecated) Actions taken Contraband and/or evidence found Disability of persons Force Actions (Deprecated) Gender of persons Non-Force Actions Basis for property seizure Property seized Basis for searches conducted Reason for stop Result of stop Stop details For more information about RIPA regulations, see the California Code of Regulations final text.