Efforts to Document

Chicago Police Board Information Center – comprehensive archive of misconduct allegations against the Chicago Police Department

Citizens Police Data Project – combines multiple datasets related to the Chicago Police Department (more here)

The Counted – project started by The Guardian to track people killed by police in the U.S. (more here)

Fatal Encounters – searchable national database of people killed during interactions with law enforcement.

Killed By Police – from 2013 to the present, documents mainstream media accounts of people killed by police and other law enforcement personnel.

Mobile Apps – for recording and reporting police misconduct

The National Police Violence Map – offers maps and other visual data of police violence in the U.S.

Officer Involved – Photo-documentary project by Josh Begley. Uses maps and meta-data to provide photographs of sites where officer-involved shootings have taken place.

Operation Ghetto Storm – comprehensive report by Arlene Eisen on the extrajudicial killing of black people, with detailed analysis of the data. (2012 with updates)    The report was published by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.  Additional information can be found in The Root

Speak My Name – debuting in September 2015, a database the focuses on violence against black women and girls

The Stolen Lives Project – national list of people killed by law enforcement agents from 1990 to the present