Value proposition
Solving the Data Gap in Policing
Structured ground-truth data for academic and research institutions.
1. Solving the dark matter of policing
The vast majority of police-citizen interactions never show up in official crime stats, yet they shape long-term trust and safety.
- Structured metadata for stops, frisks, and verbal warnings.
- Longitudinal datasets on pre-arrest conduct.
- Quantify the trust deficit between official reports and community experience.
Help quantify the gap between official statistics and community-documented interactions using the first structured dataset of pre-arrest conduct.
2. Standardizing pracademic collaboration
Move beyond deploy-first, explain-later. Real-time data streams support rapid-cycle research and evidence-based oversight.
Real-time data streams
Live lab research
Test how transparency tools affect officer behavior with actionable insights in months, not years.
Rapid-cycle analysis
Policy briefs that matter
Publish timely findings while departments can still implement change.
3. Academic and research benefits
| Researcher need | PoliceConduct.org capability | Impact on academic career |
|---|---|---|
| Data authenticity | Multi-source verification across video, reports, and records. | Stronger confidence intervals and peer-review success. |
| Bias mitigation | Compare user reports to official demographic data. | High-impact publications on bias and procedural justice. |
| Large-scale analysis | API access across multiple states. | Cross-jurisdictional studies at scale. |
| Monell research | Track the moving force of municipal policy. | New legal-criminology frameworks for civil rights research. |
4. Longitudinal study infrastructure
We track officer professional trajectories across departments, enabling research on wandering officers and the effectiveness of retraining programs.
Permanent, immutable records support multi-year trend analysis and grant work.
5. Ethical governance and anonymization
Provide de-identified datasets that meet Institutional Review Board requirements through data minimization and anonymization protocols.
Ready to partner on a grant?
We can provide a letter of support for DOJ or NIJ grant applications.