Data
Download the data
Every figure on this site comes from one of the files below, and every file is public. They are compiled from New Jersey Attorney General releases and other public records, normalised into stable identifiers, and republished as JSON so the analysis here can be checked or redone by anyone.
Records carry a sourceRef naming the source file, sheet, and row they came from. Where a value was not reported it is absent or marked as not reported, never filled in with a zero.
Spreadsheets, catalogs and assistants
- major-discipline.csv and ia-agency-totals.csv: the two Attorney General tables as spreadsheets, each row with its source file, sheet and row, and a link to its page here.
- datapackage.json (Frictionless Data) and CITATION.cff: the descriptor and citation metadata that data catalogs and reference managers read.
- One record at a time: every officer, department and fatal-encounter page has its own JSON file at
/data/officers/{slug}.json, and the same fordepartmentsandfatal-encounters. The page links it in its head. - Changes to published records: when the Attorney General replaces a file it already published, what it removed, added or rewrote, with both versions to download.
- For AI assistants: llms.txt describes the site, these files and how to cite them.
Files
Using this data
Use it for anything, including commercially. No permission needed and no attribution required, though a link back to policetransparencynj.com helps other people find the source. The underlying government records are public records and were never ours to license.
The methodology sets out how records were matched to agencies and officers, what was deliberately left unmatched, and where the data cannot support a conclusion. If you find an error, the corrections page goes straight to a human.
Citing this data
For a dataset compiled here:
Police Transparency New Jersey. New Jersey police major discipline and internal affairs data. Compiled from New Jersey Attorney General releases. https://policetransparencynj.com/data/
When a specific figure matters, cite the underlying government release rather than this site. Each record's sourceRef names it.
For machines
- /llms.txt plain-language summary of the site, its sources, and their limits
- /sitemap.xml index of every page, segmented by section
- /rss.xml articles feed