Reports
Access in-depth resources and analysis published by the ACLU-D.C. regarding our most pressing civil liberties issues.
Nov 13, 2025
Nov 13, 2025
Building Safety Through Resources
Research has demonstrated that places with higher rates of poverty experience more crime. To build communities that are safe and advance justice...
D.C. DISAPPROVAL RESOLUTIONS AND RIDERS - ACLU of DC
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...
Aug 13, 2025
Aug 13, 2025
Trump Seizes D.C. Under False Pretenses
MPD released 2013-2017 “arrest” data in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Open the Government and ACLU-DC, which...
Apr 3, 2025
Apr 3, 2025
Executive Order: Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful (EO 14252)
Executive Order 14252 is yet another attempt to micromanage Washington, D.C.—something that members of Congress weren’t elected to do.
Mar 21, 2025
Mar 21, 2025
2023-2024 Litigation Report
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...
Sep 16, 2024
Sep 16, 2024
Bias at the Core?: Enduring Racial Disparities in D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Stop-and-Frisk Practices (2022-2023)
This report covers data collected between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023. The data analyzed in this report indicates that the stark racial...
Mar 11, 2021
Mar 11, 2021
Racial Disparities in Stops by the Metropolitan Police Department: 2020 Data Update
This report reinforces the fact that MPD continues to disproportionately stop and search Black people in the District.
Mar 10, 2021
Mar 10, 2021
Protest During Pandemic: D.C. Police Kettling of Racial Justice Demonstrators on Swann Street
This report outlines the D.C. Police Kettling of Racial Justice Demonstrators on Swann Street during the 2020 protests.
Jun 16, 2020
Jun 16, 2020
Racial Disparities in Stops by the Metropolitan Police Department: Review of Five Months of Data
This report analyzes five months of data collected by the NEAR Act on stops conducted by the MPD from July 22, 2019 to December 31, 2019.
