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Resources
Public Virginia policing datasets
- Our data (download by department)
- Our DocumentCloud files
- Virginia Community Policing Act data, statewide traffic stops 2020-present (~1GB)
- Now including partial location data!
- VA Beyond 2020 - statewide incident-based reporting collected by Virginia State Police, submitted to FBI NIBRS
- Richmond City:
- Active Calls, Aug 2023-present (~80 MB)
Affiliated regional police oversight databases
- BPDWatch - Baltimore Police Database
- Civic Police Data Project - Chicago police misconduct database
- OpenOversight - The original OpenOversight project run by Lucy Parsons Labs. Started with Chicago, now includes NYC and LA
- SPD Watch - OpenOversight Seattle run by Seattle Tech Bloc
- LLEAD - Louisiana police misconduct database
- CopDB - Community sourced police database - Utah
- 50-a.org - NYPD police misconduct database
- Cop the Data - Texas police misconduct/suspension database
National U.S. policing datasets
- National Police Index - collects POST (police officer standards and training) certification and employment history across the United States
- Police Data Access Point - national police data catalog / clearinghouse
- FBI Uniform Crime Reporting - unified statistics reported by local police agencies
- Stanford Open Policing Project - national traffic stop database
National policing datasets
- National Police Index - collects police employment history across the United States