‘Open Justice’: New Web Portal Tracks Arrest and Death Statistics in California

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State Attorney General Kamala Harris, shown in a 2008 photo: “This is the first kind of showing and transparency of this kind of information of any state in the country.” Creative Commons image by Flickr user aSILVA

By Alex Emslie, KQED News/The California Report

California Attorney General Kamala Harris unveiled a Web-based data tool Wednesday that catalogs nine years of arrest, death and assault statistics across the state’s 400-plus law enforcement agencies.

Specifically, the “Open Justice” Web portal is broken into three broad categories — arrest statistics, in-custody deaths (which include all types of use-of-force fatalities, such as officer-involved shootings) and law enforcement officers killed or assaulted in the line of duty.

Read the complete story at KQED News/The California Report.

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