Subject Guide
Statistics and Data
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Bureau of Justice StatisticsFind statistics and surveys related to law enforcement.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development ArchivesFind information on housing and development related to these topics.
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Racial Profiling Data: Vehicle Stops in Ferguson, MO | Missouri Attorney GeneralRacial profiling data compiled on vehicle stops by the Ferguson Police Department [PDF]. See https://www.ago.mo.gov/ for the main site.
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Crime in the United States 2013 | FBICrime report on "justifiable homicide" by law enforcement by weapon. See more links on this page to access other, related data.
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Hundreds of Police Killings Are Uncounted in Federal Stats | The Wall Street JournalFBI Data Differs from Local Counts on Justifiable Homicides (a word of caution on using federal stats for accuracy).
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Excessive or reasonable force by police? Research on law enforcement and racial conflict in the wake of Ferguson | Harvard: Journalist's ResourceMany links to raw data and how to think about using statistics in reporting.
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Unarmed People of Color Killed by Police, 1999-2014 | GawkerA growing list of unarmed people of color killed by police with descriptions for context, and images of the victims
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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."
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After Ferguson, Race Deserves More Attention, Not Less | NYT Op-EdOp-ed with links to statistics on disparity between blacks and whites