In recent years, data on policing has become more accessible than ever before. Through endeavors like The Stanford Open Policing Project [8.10.152], 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.
