Public-safety and policy data, city by city, measured against the people who live there.
Each report turns public records into rates per resident, tests the explanations the data allows, and says plainly what the data cannot show. How the reports work
Reports
Rates from police records count only what was reported to police. They count reports, not people, and use race as recorded by officers. They show differences, not why they exist; each report sets out what its data cannot show.
Policing in DC
In every police district, the Black share of people stopped is larger than the Black share of residents, and Black people who are stopped are searched more often, while searches find something at about the same rate. Daylight doesn't change who is stopped, and the documented downgrading of crime reports doesn't show up in the public totals.
DC crime since the National Guard
Violence in DC fell by close to half after the National Guard arrived in August 2025. It fell just as much where no troops were posted, so nothing in the data shows the troops themselves adding to the decline.
Assault victims by race and sex
In every city examined, Black women's reported assault rate is higher than White women's, and higher than Hispanic women's wherever ethnicity is recorded well enough to compare. The series tests possible explanations, where the gap holds, and what police records can and can't show.