Police & policing
Presence, practices, and policies of police
- Policies blocking ICE arrests in jails have kept immigration arrest rates lower in some states (Created: 2025)
- U.S. crime rates continue to fall, and preliminary data indicate that the 2024 crime rate was the lowest since 1961 (Created: 2025)
- Women experiencing police use of force rose dramatically between 1999 and 2022 (Created: 2024)
- Black people disproportionately experience the threat or use of force in police encounters (Created: 2024)
- Black people experience police misconduct at six times the rate of white people (Created: 2024)
- Black people are more than twice as likely to be searched or arrested in a traffic stop (Created: 2024)
- People who experience homelessness are arrested at extremely high rates in Atlanta — and largely for being poor (Created: 2023)
- Women experiencing police use of force rose dramatically between 1999 and 2020 (Created: 2022)
- Police disproportionately threaten or use force against communities of color (Created: 2022)
- Black residents experience police misconduct at twelve times the rate of white residents (Created: 2022)
- 610,000 people are released from state and federal prisons each year (Created: 2022)
- More than 1 in 3 people in state prison were first arrested before their 16th birthday (Created: 2022)
- Most people in state prison were first arrested as youth (Created: 2022)
- Arrests fell 24% from 2019 to 2020, due to changes in daily life and short-term changes in enforcement of low-level crime (Created: 2022)
- Arrest rates for most youth are falling, while Native youth arrests are on the rise (Created: 2021)
- Homicides with Black and Latinx victims are less likely lead to an arrest than homicides with white victims (Created: 2021)
- BIPOC transgender people are disproportionately harassed by police (Created: 2021)
- Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are much more likely to be arrested than straight people (Created: 2021)
- Black people are disproportionately likely to be arrested, and to be arrested repeatedly in the same year (Created: 2020)
- Among individuals who have any contact with police, people of color disproportionately experience the use of force (Created: 2020)
- Black people are disproportionately stopped on the street by the police, while white people are much more likely to call the police for help (Created: 2020)
- U.S. police kill civilians at a much higher rate than police in other wealthy countries (Created: 2020)
- U.S. police kill far more civilians annually than any other wealthy nation (Created: 2020)
- "Frequent utilizers" of jails often face extreme economic disadvantages (Created: 2019)
- Jail "frequent utilizers" often lack access to regular healthcare (Created: 2019)
- People jailed most frequently are disproportionately black (Created: 2019)
- People with multiple arrests have serious health needs (Created: 2019)
- Black individuals are disproportionately likely to be jailed, and jail repeatedly (Created: 2019)
- People with multiple arrests are more likely to be poor, unemployed, and have less than a high school education (Created: 2019)
- Searches during traffic stops have declined among men, but not among women (Created: 2019)
- Women experiencing police use of force rose dramatically between 1999 and 2015 (Created: 2019)
- Women's share of all police-initiated contacts is even higher than their share of arrests (Created: 2019)
- Women make up a growing portion of arrests (Created: 2019)
- Police are twice as likely to use force against people of color (Created: 2018)
- The hidden cost of stop and frisk (Created: 2017)
- New York stop and frisk is ineffective (Created: 2016)
- The path from arrest to pretrial detention (Created: 2016)
- Confidence in the police by race, 1994-2015 (Created: 2015)
- Blacks are more than 8 times as likely as Whites to be stopped by the New York City police (Created: 2012)
- Blacks are 11 times as likely as Whites to be frisked by the New York City Police (Created: 2012)
- New York City's increasing use of "stop & frisk" policing (Created: 2012)
- In half million plus stops per year, New York City police discover law of diminishing returns (Created: 2012)
- New York City's 'stop & frisk' policing consistently focuses on Blacks and Latinos (Created: 2012)
- Blacks are almost 12 times as likely as Whites to have force used while being stopped or frisked by the New York City Police (Created: 2012)
- Innocent Latinos and Blacks are more likely than Whites to experience the use of force during a NYC 'stop and frisk' (Created: 2012)
- During stops that do not result in an arrest, Blacks are more than 12 times as likely as Whites to experience the use of force during stop & frisks by New York City Police (Created: 2012)
- Confidence in the police, by race (Created: 2003)
- Do the police treat all races fairly?, by race (Created: 2003)
Events
- July 9, 2026:
Join the Prison Policy Initiative, Latino Justice, and the MacArthur Justice Center for a powerful webinar focused on the parole board process and the case for the presumption of release. It will begin with a firsthand account from Frank Silva and his interview for freedom followed by Clinical Professor of Law Heidi Rummel and the legality of “presumption of release,” and how California’s framework has shifted the burden of proof.
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