On average police officers in New Jersey used force 4.2 times each from 2012 through 2016. However 5 percent of police officers in New Jersey are responsible for 25% of all occasions where force was used by the police and just 252 officers are responsible for 10% of all uses of force in the whole state.
Explore 17,354 Officers who Used Force in NJ is an impressive data visualization of New Jersey's police departments' use of force from 2012 through 2016. The visualization uses 17,354 dots, one dot for each of New Jersey's police officers. As you progress through the Force Report the visualization animates these dots into a series of graphs, charts and maps to help visualize how and why force was used by the state's law enforcement officers.
Each of the dots in the Force Report are colored to show the number of times each officer used force from 2012 through 2016. However the dots also organize themselves into a bar chart to show how many officers used force and how many times. As you progress through the visualization the dots rearrange themselves onto a map of New Jersey to show where the use of force is most used in the state.
If you want to know more about the use of force by your local police department in New Jersey you can search the Force Report data here. The Force Report allows you to search the database by the name of individual officers or by police department.
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