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The Virginia Community Policing Act requires law enforcement to collect seven pieces of data. That includes information about race, ethnicity, age, and the gender of the person who was stopped. Results of the stop, like warnings, citations, or vehicle searches, are also collected.
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State police released a tranche of that data Thursday. In a media briefing Friday, Keon Turner, who manages of data analysis and reporting for the state police, said it s important to keep some things in mind: that Covid was at play when the data was collected, and the numbers are continually updated.
Lawmakers and state police aim to make police data more accessible with new website
The new website is a result of the Virginia Community Policing Act
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Community policing data released Friday
ROANOKE, Va – Virginia lawmakers and state police are working to make crime data more accessible with a new website.
Last summer, the General Assembly passed the Virginia Community Policing Act, which requires officers to record certain data every time they make a stop. The act led to the creation of the Virginia Data Open Portal, a website that has stop data from Virginia law enforcement agencies from July 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021.
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