Open Policing Data Hub
Open data on America's police agencies — crime, staffing, policies, and open-data portals for 19,000+ agencies, pulled into one place so analysts, researchers, and officers can scope real problems and find what works.
Every dataset here serves one purpose: helping you run a problem-oriented policing project on real evidence. What is problem-oriented policing?
Problem, response, and tool guides summarizing what is known about recurring crime problems.
Conference submissions and case studies from agencies that ran problem-oriented projects.
US agency profiles with crime trends, NIBRS detail, and staffing history, plus national directories for 197 more countries.
Public police policy documents inventoried from open agency policy portals.
A curated registry of open policing data sources with provenance and coverage notes.
Each part of the site maps to a stage of problem-oriented work.
Understand the problem
Start with a POP guide to see what research says about your recurring crime or disorder problem.
Learn from others
Read projects from agencies that tackled the same problem, including what worked and what did not.
Ground it in data
Pull crime trends, staffing, policies, and open datasets for your jurisdiction or a comparison agency.
A quick visual check from the indexed project and guide library.
