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.
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Project Status: Active
Research Design: Non-experimental
Research Method(s): Surveys, Secondary data analysis
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Service Area(s)
Topic Area(s)
Staff Contact(s)
Media Contact
Media inquiries should be directed to our Communications team at:
media@policinginstitute.org
202-833-1460
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