Report a police interaction. Research the public record.
PoliceConduct.org helps people document interactions with law enforcement and review public records about agencies, personnel, reports, and civil litigation.
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Start with your state or federal agencies and follow the record from there.
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Combined coverage across reports, personnel, agencies, and civil litigation.
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Federal overview
Combined federal entries across reports, personnel, agencies, and civil litigation.
- Federal overview
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
- U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- U.S. Marshals Service
- U.S. Secret Service (USSS)
Use the record
Use the site to document an interaction, research a local agency, or work with others on public-interest reporting and oversight.
Report an interaction
Add a documented public account, whether the interaction was negative, positive, or mixed.
Submit a reportResearch local records
Review reports, agencies, personnel, and civil litigation by state, agency, or person.
Research recordsPartner with the project
Oversight bodies, law firms, newsrooms, nonprofits, and researchers can extend the usefulness of the record.
Explore partner pathsPublic records help communities and law enforcement respond to the same facts.
— Institute for Police ConductWhat's broken?
Public information about police conduct is fragmented, inconsistent, and often difficult for ordinary people to access or interpret.
Relevant material may exist across court dockets, public-records responses, agency materials, news coverage, and community accounts, but it is rarely organized for fast, meaningful review.
Patterns are hard to identify
Incidents that look isolated in one source may look different alongside prior complaints, litigation, or public reports.
Access is uneven
Journalists, lawyers, and well-resourced organizations may be able to assemble a fuller picture. Most people cannot.
Context is easy to lose
Serious concerns may remain obscure, while isolated allegations may circulate without enough context or corroboration.
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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