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PoliceConduct.org helps residents, officers, departments, researchers, and journalists understand how policing is experienced in real life: harm, help, professionalism, confusion, accountability, trust, and everything in between.
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— Institute for Police ConductWhat the record can reveal
A useful public record should show harm and concern, professionalism and restraint, missing context, and patterns that only become visible over time.
Relevant material may exist across court dockets, public-records responses, agency materials, news coverage, and community accounts, but it is rarely organized so people can understand both accountability concerns and trust-building conduct.
Patterns over time
A single experience may look different alongside earlier reports, public records, outcomes, and community accounts.
Harm and trust
Serious harm should not be softened or buried. Good conduct, restraint, and professionalism should be visible too.
Context for everyone
Communities, officers, agencies, journalists, and researchers need enough context to understand what happened and what it may mean.
Our mission
Make police conduct easier to document, understand, and review.
Institute for Police Conduct is a nonprofit, public-interest record focused on making police conduct easier to document, understand, and review.
The goal is not to replace courts, internal affairs, or formal oversight bodies. The goal is to make already-existing public information and structured public reporting more usable for the public.
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