Civilytics publishes first ever analysis of campus police departments nationwide
Friends and Colleagues,
Over 7.5 million students attend a college with a campus police department. This is just one of the key facts included in Civilytics’ new publication Policing the American University the first-ever look at staffing levels and arrest patterns and trends of America’s campus police departments.
In this issue of the Civic Pulse you’ll learn about this and more:
Civilytics publishes its first public research report, Policing the American University, available now online.
Accompanying the report is the Campus Policing Toolkit, a tool for communities to better understand campus policing in their community.
Civilytics president Jared Knowles recently gave a webinar training community organizations around the country in reading city budgets and comparing police department spending and performance across cities.
Education Data Done Right (EDDR) hits the road with co-authors Wendy Geller and Jared Knowles giving a talk to CCSSO's ASR Winter Meeting in New Orleans
Civilytics is dedicated to restoring our democracy by elevating people’s voices with data analysis. We do this through consulting, training and education, and public research.
You can learn more about all of these at: www.civilytics.com
On to this month’s topics!
Policing the American University released
Civilytics has published a new in-depth study on police departments that serve American colleges. Policing the American University represents the culmination of work that began when Civilytics was founded - building tools to understand police department performance. After conversations with funders, community organizers, journalists, and researchers it was clear that one gap in police accountability conversations was found on college campuses.
Civilytics has invested heavily in ensuring the report is visible, useful, and speaks to multiple audiences. In addition to the report and its over 20 figures and tables, there is a Press Release, Fact Sheet, and social media campaign on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to support the report.
The report has been distributed to over 100 news outlets. And you can help spread the word:
Grab the fact sheet and email it to your friends, family, or student organizations.
Follow us on social media at Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to support the report.
Share this email with everyone you know.
As a small independent public research firm we depend on you and your support to help us get our work into the world.
Campus Policing Toolkit available now
Research reports are great for providing an overview of a sector of policing like campus policing, but they can be hard for communities to use directly. That’s why we’ve created the campus policing toolkit which provides communities with a number of additional resources they can use to understand their specific campus police department:
A dataset of staffing and arrest data for all campus police departments present in the 2016 (most recent) FBI Uniform Crime Report
A detailed data dictionary for all the data and links to original data sources and other sources of policing data
A User Guide which gives advice on how to use the data and how to foster local conversation about campus policing
A fact sheet providing an overview of campus policing nationally
If you or anyone you know is interested in learning about campus police in your community, pick up the Campus Policing Toolkit today.
Police Budget and Performance Webinar
Civilytics was invited by the Borealis Foundation to present a webinar on police budgeting, comparing police budgets across the country, and police accountability measures. The foundation’s grantees are community organizations making pushes for greater police accountability in their cities. Grantees had requested assistance in producing their own evidence to be used in city budget deliberations.
This work is directly aligned with Civilytics mission of providing public research to help communities make democratic decisions that include all voices.
We will have more updates on this front soon - but needless to say this is a new partnership we are very excited about.
EDDR Presentation to the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
We continue to be grateful for the positive response EDDR has received - most recently on February 19th at CCSSO’s ASR in New Orleans where co-authors Jared Knowles and Wendy Geller presented their top takeaways from the book as well as a preview of Volume 2.
We are already busy putting together Volume 2 which includes important contributions from many new voices - focusing on case studies of hard-earned successes by people working in agencies across the country. We hoped Volume 1 would be a beacon to gather news of all the good work happening in this field, and we are happy to report we’ll be sharing that back out with you soon.
Pick up your copy of EDDR at www.eddatadoneright.com - and remember the digital version is always available for free!
Upcoming Events
Next on the horizon is publishing updated accountability tools related to municipal police departments and county sheriff's offices and their budgets. Civilytics will also be moving its headquarters just up the road in the next several weeks. We are also looking forward to announcing more partnerships related to both our efforts to improve analytics on policing and to make more education data analysis resources available.
More on all of that very soon.
With Gratitude,
Jared