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Data visualization of state level data on incarceration and other criminal justice statistics. Pulls from primary source data - U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics data. Provides high level and detailed data. Excellent place to access data that is often difficult to find. Great starting point.

Crime and policing data specific to the City of Lincoln, NE. Description: The Crime Analysis Unit reviews all Lincoln Police Department reports and identifies crime patterns by analyzing people, patterns, places and problems. Crime patterns are also recognized by utilizing tools and techniques implemented by other law enforcement agencies in doing Predictive and Preventive Analysis.  The unit maintains criminal intelligence information, Crime Stoppers, and the Leads OnLine pawn database. The unit coordinates and produces the monthly ACUDAT (Analyzing Crime Using Data About Trends) document and meeting, which is LPD's version of COMPSTAT. The Crime Analysis Unit also assists with statistical analysis requests by outside law enforcement agencies, universities, citizens, and business entities.

Resource page supporting academics who wish to engage in harm reduction, anti-racist, drug policy reform. Founded in January 2016, DPA's Department of Research and Academic Engagement (DRAE) works to bridge the divide between research and effective drug policies. Our drug policies are driven by ideology, politics, stigma, greed, and/or racism rather than the evidence about what works. We at DRAE believe that it is more important than ever to promote policies grounded in scholarship and that policymakers need tools to access and use research.