Reimagining Police Stops

From The Lab:

Since fall 2020, Georgetown Law’s Center for Innovations in Community Safety, Howard University, The Lab @ DC, and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) have partnered to engage with community members, members of law enforcement, and researchers to explore and document how jurisdictions can reimagine police stops. Today, we are distributing the three final products from this effort.

The impetus for this work came in July 2019, when DC’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) launched new data systems to allow for the collection of more granular data on police stops. In September 2019, MPD released its first report on this data accompanied by data files for public use. MPD highlighted disparities in police stops by race and called for further research to understand the role of racial discrimination in producing these disparities.