Open Source Data

A running list of open source data related to policing and other violence interventions.

(Are we missing something? Let us know!)

Violence

• Gun Violence Archive
• Historical Violence Database

Use of Force

National level

• Fatal Encounters
• Fatal Force (by Washington Post)
• Mapping Police Violence
• SPOTLITE

State level

• California
• Connecticut
• Florida
• Georgia
• Maine
• Minnesota
• Nebraska
• New Jersey
• Ohio
• Texas
• Utah

City/Jurisdiction level

• Minneapolis
• New York
• Phoenix
• Seattle
• Texas (large cities)

Traffic Stops

• Missouri Vehicle Stops Report
• Stanford Open Policing Project
• Traffic Stops in Nebraska

Network Data

• Colorado Index of Complex Networks
  • ICON is a comprehensive index of research-quality network data sets from all domains of network science, including social, web, information, biological, ecological, connectome, transportation, and technological networks.
• Katya Ognyanova’s blog
  • A helpful list of repositories containing network data, compiled by Katya Ognyanova

Miscellaneous

• Police Data Initiative
  • 200+ data sets (including traffic stops, uses of force, calls for service, hate crimes, and more) uploaded by 120+ police departments
• Police Scorecard Data
  • A Google Drive folder with several datasets (e.g., arrests, police funding, use of force, complaints, homicide clearance rates) compiled for Police Scorecard