Library Guides: Civil Rights: Statistics and Data

Statistics and Data

Bureau of Justice Statistics
Find statistics and surveys related to law enforcement.
Criminal Justice Fact Sheet | NAACP
Department of Housing and Urban Development Archives
Find information on housing and development related to these topics.
Racial Profiling Data: Vehicle Stops in Ferguson, MO | Missouri Attorney General
Racial profiling data compiled on vehicle stops by the Ferguson Police Department [PDF]. See https://www.ago.mo.gov/ for the main site.
Crime in the United States 2013 | FBI
Crime report on "justifiable homicide" by law enforcement by weapon. See more links on this page to access other, related data.
Hundreds of Police Killings Are Uncounted in Federal Stats | The Wall Street Journal
FBI Data Differs from Local Counts on Justifiable Homicides (a word of caution on using federal stats for accuracy).
Excessive or reasonable force by police? Research on law enforcement and racial conflict in the wake of Ferguson | Harvard: Journalist's Resource
Many links to raw data and how to think about using statistics in reporting.
Unarmed People of Color Killed by Police, 1999-2014 | Gawker
A growing list of unarmed people of color killed by police with descriptions for context, and images of the victims
These seven charts explain how Ferguson—and many other US cities—wring revenue from black people and the poor | Quartz
"[T]he city’s finances suggest the St. Louis suburb’s criminal justice system has been stealthily exploiting residents—particularly those who are black or poor—for years."
Sharp Racial Divisions in Reactions to Brown, Garner Decisions | Pew Research Center
After Ferguson, Race Deserves More Attention, Not Less | NYT Op-Ed
Op-ed with links to statistics on the disparity between blacks and whites