Policing & Incarceration

The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society.

Mapping Police Violence is an organization that publishes the most comprehensive and up-to-date data on police violence in America to support transformative change.

This web site has statistics about crime and statistics, criminal offenders, law enforcement, and expenditure and employment.

Affiliated with the University of Michigan, most of the data requires a registration with NACJD, but some data is available to anyone.

The National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE) is a non-profit organization that works to create a community of support for independent, civilian oversight entities that seek to make their local law enforcement agencies, jails, and prisons more transparent, accountable, and responsive to the communities they serve.