Research & Publications

In sum, our successes over the last two years, as detailed in this report, offer a model for continued vigorous defense of civil liberties going forward.

This report covers data collected between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023. The data analyzed in this report indicates that the stark racial disparities present in the 2019 and 2020 stops data remain. MPD continues to disproportionately stop Black people in D.C.

This is an update to the June 16, 2020 report published by the ACLU-DC and ACLU Analytics, Racial Disparities in Stops by the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. It reinforces the fact that MPD continues to disproportionately stop and search Black people in the District.

On the evening of June 1, 2020, MPD deployed significant force in and around Swann Street. The report is based on interviews with more than 50 individual eyewitnesses, including protestors who were kettled and Swann Street residents who witnessed the events from their homes.

This report analyzes five months of data collected pursuant to the Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results (NEAR) Act on stops conducted by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) from July 22, 2019 to December 31, 2019.

MPD released 2013-2017 “arrest” data in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Open the Government and ACLU-DC, which revealed a pattern of disproportionate arrests of Black people. This report analyzes these trends and proposes steps for addressing them.