Racism in Policing

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Chapter 7 Racism in Policing

Introduction.

This module was authored by Ranjan Rohatgi and Joel Walsh

In recent years, data on policing has become more accessible than ever before. Through endeavors like The Stanford Open Policing Project [7.10.124], it is now possible for a wide array of stakeholders to scrutinize the police practices of in their communities.

In this chapter, you will use statistical programming tools like R and Python notebooks to analyze large amounts of police data. These are datasets that would either be extremely slow or impossible to open in Excel or Google Docs.