Tag: Research

Statistical Transparency of Police. STOP

Executive Summary

House Bill 2355 (2017) mandates all Oregon law enforcement agencies to submit officer-initiated traffic and pedestrian stop data to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission (CJC).

The resulting Oregon Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Program, housed at the CJC, was created with assistance from the Oregon State Police (OSP) and the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST). This is the seventh annual report to the Oregon Legislature by the STOP Program examining data submitted by law enforcement agencies.

Table 0.1 reports descriptive statistics for

Tier 1 (100+ officers),

Tier 2 (25 – 99 officers), and

Tier 3 (<25 officers) agency stops.

Most drivers stopped were white and male. All minority races combined accounted for almost 30% of stops by larger (tier 1) agencies and a smaller portion, just over 20%, for smaller agencies, reflecting differences in urban and rural driving populations.

Read the report here:

www.ci.oswego.or.us/sites/default/files/STOP Report 2025.pdf

Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2023

Description

This report details rates of violent and property crime in the United States based on offenses reported by law enforcement agencies from 2022 to 2023. It presents national and subnational estimates of crime offenses and victimizations for violent and property crime. Findings are based on BJS’s and the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Estimation Program. NIBRS collects detailed information on crime incidents reported to law enforcement throughout the United States. 

Highlights

  • The rate of violent offenses in the United States decreased from 407.3 per 100,000 persons in 2022 to 387.8 per 100,000 in 2023.
  • The rate of property offenses decreased 3% from 2,085.6 per 100,000 persons in 2022 to 2,015.2 per 100,000 in 2023.
  • The rate of violent victimization in 2023 was 395.2 per 100,000 persons, which was not statistically different from the rate in 2022.
  • Males and females both had decreases in the rate of homicide victimization from 2022 to 2023.

Get the report HERE

Metropolitan Police publishes Dr Shereen Daniels’ independently commissioned report into racism in the Met | Metropolitan Police

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has published an independent report by Dr Shereen Daniels, commissioned by the MPS to examine how the organisation has…
— Read on news.met.police.uk/news/metropolitan-police-publishes-dr-shereen-daniels-independently-commissioned-report-into-racism-in-the-met-503047

Review of the New York City Police Department’s Body-Worn Camera Program – Office of the New York City Comptroller Brad Lander

Introduction Background The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is the largest, and one of the oldest, municipal police departments in the United States, with approximately 36,000 police officers and 19,000 civilian employees. The NYPD is divided into major bureaus for enforcement, investigations, and administration. It has 78 precincts with…
— Read on comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/review-of-the-new-york-city-police-departments-body-worn-camera-program/

Generalized Stop and Frisk is Not the Answer: Improved Strategies for Violent Street Crime Reduction – National Policing Institute

A recent article on stops and searches by the Metropolitan Police in London has reignited debate about the use of stop, question, and frisk (SQF) in the United States. Piquero and Sherman (2025)1 analyzed 15 years of stop and search data from the Metropolitan Police and found a correlation between increases and decreases in stop and search encounters (SSE) and subsequent rates of serious injuries and homicides in London, primarily from knife attacks. In short, knife-related assaults and deaths went down when British police stopped and searched more people in public, and they went up when police stopped and searched fewer people. What do these findings mean for U.S. law enforcement? Should police in America stop and frisk more people as a strategy to reduce violent street crime, crimes that in the U.S. usually involve guns rather than knives?
— Read on www.policinginstitute.org/onpolicing/stop-and-frisk-alternatives-violent-crime-reduction/