Data Catalog

This is a collection of videos of police brutality against lawful protesters on Twitter. One user, @greg_doucette, originally started documenting incidents on his twitter thread and @jasonemiller curated the content onto a master Google Spreadsheet. Other efforts to document police brutality are also linked on spreadsheet, as well as print media stories writing about this project.

This open-source database of police use of force policies for the 100 largest U.S. city police departments. These documents, obtained through FOIA requests via MuckRock, will be used for future analyses identifying the ways in which they impact police accountability. On the publisher's website, there are also direct links to the Use of Force policies and the FOIA request submitted to each city police department.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether adult sexual assault cases in a Midwestern community were more likely to be investigated and prosecuted after the implementation of a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program, and to identify the 'critical ingredients' that contributed to that increase. The data are divided into six parts: Part 1, Study 1: Case Records Quantitative Data; Part 2, Study 2: Case Characteristics Quantitative Data; Part 3, Study 3: Police and Prosecutors Interview Qualitative Data; Part 4, Study 4: Police Reports Quantitative Data; Part 5, Study 5: Survivor Interview Qualitative Data; Part 6, Study 6: Forensic Nurse Interview Qualitative Data.

The creators of CountLove began crawling local newspaper and television sites to track protests and number of attendees since the first Women's March in 2017. They count public displays of protest that are not part of “regular business.” Protest entries include the following information: the date of the protest, attendees, the event type, metadata tags, and the source of protest information.

The Plug, a news site that focuses on the Black innovation economy, has been assembling a dataset of statements made by tech companies on racial justice, Black Lives Matter, and George Floyd. The dataset links to more than 200 statements so far and includes each company’s name, the timing of the statement, and other relevant context, such as the URL of their most recent diversity report and the percentage of employees and/or leaders who identify as Black.