The Police Records Access Project database provides public access to internal affairs documents and police-misconduct records from nearly 700 California law enforcement agencies. It encompasses approximately 1.5 million pages related to 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases. This initiative, developed over seven years, involved collaboration among various organizations, aiming to improve law enforcement transparency. The database allows stakeholders to enhance research on potential job candidates and to identify policing trends. Its creation was facilitated by legislative changes that granted public access to these crucial records.
The Police Records Access Project database, which contains roughly 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases, was jointly published today.
The creation of a public facing database is critical for all of the stakeholders in the criminal legal system: whether public defenders, innocence organizations, prosecutors, police departments or academics.
The database took seven years to produce. It was compiled by journalists, data scientists, lawyers and civil liberties advocates working with the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.
The project began after California legislators approved a series of laws aimed at improving law-enforcement transparency, granting public access to use-of-force and other misconduct records.
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