Zencity Trust Index

This project is in partnership with Zencity, which administers online community surveys related to community trust in police. The National Policing Institute (NPI) is pilot-testing a dashboard to analyze and visualize all of this data by state.

Project Overview

Zencity uses online surveys and rake weighting to create representative samples and collect data on community sentiment toward police. Through a partnership with NPI, this data is being cleaned, analyzed, and visualized in a public-facing dashboard to help inform police leaders and the public more broadly about community views toward law enforcement. This information is broken down by geography and respondent demographics to understand how different groups perceive law enforcement alongside common indicators of police effectiveness (e.g., crime and clearance rates) and neighborhood conditions (e.g., poverty, education, etc.).

Methodology

This project leverages secondary data of a nationwide sample of respondents that is then used to create indices of police trust and effectiveness and visualized spatially and in descriptive analyses utilizing R and Shiny dashboards that are still in development.

Service Area(s)

Staff Contact(s)

Ryan Fisher

Ryan Fisher, PhD

Senior Research Manager

Colby Dolly

Colby Dolly, PhD

Director, Science & Innovation

Media Contact

Media inquiries should be directed to our Communications team at:

media@policinginstitute.org
202-833-1460

More Information

Project Status: Active

Research Design: Non-experimental

Research Method(s): Surveys, Secondary data analysis

Service Area(s)

Staff Contact(s)

Ryan Fisher

Ryan Fisher, PhD

Senior Research Manager

Colby Dolly

Colby Dolly, PhD

Director, Science & Innovation

Media Contact

 

Media inquiries should be directed to our Communications team at:

media@policinginstitute.org
202-833-1460