Research & Publications

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.

The ACLU and ACLU-DC summarize the results of a Freedom of Information Law request and focus on the exclusion of women and girls from the programming launched under D.C.'s $20 million "Empowering Males of Color" initiative.

Despite comparable marijuana usage, Black people in D.C. were arrested for possession at eight times the rate of white people in 2010. These and other figures are illustrated in this report focusing on marijuana enforcement in the District.

Marijuana use is roughly equal among Blacks and whites, yet Blacks are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession. The report concludes that the War on Marijuana, like the larger War on Drugs of which it is a part, is a failure.