Researching Police Reform

Tracks progress of police reform legislation in federal, state, and local legislatures

Evaluates and compares policing reforms in California's police departments.

National Institute of Justice's effectiveness evaluations of policing strategies adopted by U.S. police departments; other categories of policing changes evaluated include community crime prevention strategies, court policies, technologies, and more.

This guide to policing reforms undertaken in various American police departments stopped being updated when Donald Trump's administration began, but it tracks reform agreements made with the Justice Department between 1997 and 2017.