We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.

• racial equity
• criminal justice
• police violence

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

An open, civic tech community in public safety and crime.

• criminal justice

• Civic data
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

The Police Data Initiative promotes the use of open data to encourage joint problem solving, innovation, enhanced understanding, and accountability between communities and the law enforcement agencies that serve them.

• policing
• racial equity
• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Police Case uses popular TV culture to educate the public about legal rights and the justice system.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Justice tech

The Citizens Police Data Project (CPDP.co) is a tool for holding police accountable to the public they serve. By Invisible Institute

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech
• Civic maps

A beautiful media tribute to the civilians who show up with cameras to document injustice

• racial equity

• Cameras

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Digital security and privacy

An opportunity for every conscious member of society to contribute to the elimination of the shadow economy.

• taxes
• illicit goods
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps

One of multiple studies in the US using artificial intelligence to analyze the tone and word choice police officers use, to determine whether it leads to unnecessarily escalations with the public..

• police violence
• policing

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Justice tech

Performance Tracker reviews the state of nine public services – general practice, hospitals, adult social care, children’s social care, neighbourhood services, schools, police, criminal courts and prisons – and their comparative and inter-connected problems.

• Govtech
• Report cards and audits

A report by Center for Democracy & Technology

• racial equity
• anti-harassment

• Voting and elections
• Fight disinformation
• Help more people run for office

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships

Community Based Alternatives to the Police Not911 is designed to direct you to New York City-based organizations that offer counseling, mediation and intervention services.

• apps

• Justice tech
• Access social benefits

The adoption of policing technologies must be guided by democratic legitimacy and an imperative to minimize harm.

• police violence

• Justice tech

Archive of New York City directories

• cities
• libraries

• Civic data
• Predecessors

ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing hate, extremist and antisemitic incidents by state and nationwide. ADL Center on Extremism experts developed this unique visualization using data points from information sources including news and media reports, government documents (including police reports), victim reports, extremist-related sources, Center on Extremism investigations and more. ADL H.E.A.T. Map is updated monthly. A compilation of the most recent cases of anti-Jewish vandalism, harassment, and assault may be viewed at the ADL Tracker of Antisemitic Incidents.

• anti-harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• Civic maps

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Foundational layers

Center at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

WhoWasInCommand is our free to use, public database of military, police and other security and defense force units.

• peace
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• human rights

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Archives

AI/ML fueled social impact venture accelerator, powered by Alchemist. Leveraging entrepreneurship, data, etc. to help solve our community's pressing challenges!

• Artificial Intelligence
• Accelerators
• Machine learning

TAKING A HEARING ON THE SPOT

• The Tech
• Govtech

Notifica allows users to inform family members, legal advocates, and other contacts that they have been detained by the police or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

• immigration

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities

• racial equity
• surveillance

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Organising community involvement with road safety on a grand scale

• road safety
• speeding
• Vision Zero

• Crowdsourcing
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Balancing Act is a fun and easy way for residents to learn about public budgets and the choices their elected officials face in the budgeting process.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

• books
• cities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Watchdogging apps for voter suppression, police brutality, and bullying

• apps
• police violence
• youth

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Communicating with the government

Mic covers news, opinion, reviews and analysis around arts, entertainment, celebrity, LGBTQ, social justice, police brutality, dating, sex, feminism, body positivity, space, innovation, climate change.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world.

• human rights
• immigration

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Yunga is a local rescue digital network that connects neighbor to neighbor and neighbor to police in case of an attack or emergency.

• Mutual aid

The Veza online tool is an open data platform developed by Corruption Watch with the goal of improving transparency and accountability in the South African Police Service (SAPS).

Spot the Surveillance is a virtual reality (VR) experience that teaches people how to identify the various spying technologies that police may deploy in communities.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

The PLP 2.0 mobile application allows victims of domestic violence to report violence. Users feeling threatened bya former or current partner can use the app to report the issue to the police. The app allows a user to contact thepolice by using the phone’s power button. The police receives an alert as well as the GPS location of the user at risk offacing abuse.

• apps
• domestic violence

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Uses a mix of cutting edge technologies including 3D modeling, data mining, machine learning, pattern analysis, and virtual reality, to conduct independent investigations into human rights abuses and police killings

• human rights

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Copcast is an open-source project that can turn any Android phone into a body-worn camera system for law enforcement, providing a more cost-effective and accessible solution for law enforcement officers around the world.

• apps

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Justice tech

Bayes Impact builds citizen-led public services to create a fairer and inclusive future for our societies

• The Tech
• Emerging tech

Kumpulan cerita tentang orang, studi kasus, penelitian kami, dan wajah kota yang selalu berubah yang Anda jalani. // Qlue is a crowd-sourcing smartphone app where the users can report various incidents such as flooding, crime, fires or waste-related issues.

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Govtech

Players take on the role of suffragettes trying to occupy the House of Commons, or police officers trying to break up the protest.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Based on the idea that if more people start taking action when sexual harassment happens in their presence, we can end this epidemic.

• apps
• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Decolonize This Place is an action-oriented movement centering around Indigenous struggle, Black liberation, free Palestine, global wage workers and de-gentrification.

• racial equity

• Cameras

Create right from your phone with Google

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

A multi-million dollar ongoing survey contract to understand New Yorkers' sentiment toward the NYPD. Built by Elucd and shut down by the City.

• police violence
• policing

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Public sentiment tools