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The Police Data Initiative defines use of force as “the means of compelling compliance or overcoming resistance to an officer’s command(s) in order to protect life or property or to take a person into custody.” Use-of-force data should include data, location, a description or type of forced used, and a reason for use of force.This data is crucial for police accountability. (More info)
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licensed | No | |
| Available in bulk | No | The data is in pdf form . Pdfs are split yearly from 2015 to current |
| Up-to-date | No | It's difficult to know how often the data is updated and whether or not new data should be available without knowing whether there's been a police shooting since the last update. Last update is Jan 2018 |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | HTML | The data is only available as a pdf |
| findable | 3 | |
| findable_steps | Google Baltimore police use of force data and go to the BPD result. Scroll down the page to find the individual summaries per year as a pdf | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | |
| collector_name | https://www.baltimorepolice.org/transparency/use-force | |
| characteristics | Date, Location | |
| location | href="https://www.baltimorepolice.org/transparency/use-force" https://www.baltimorepolice.org/transparency/use-force">rel="nofollow">https://www.baltimorepolice.org/transparency/use-force - Baltimore Police Dept website |