Community Policing DATA

As of July 1, 2020, the Virginia Community Policing Act requires law enforcement officers to collect information from traffic stops and report that information to a statewide Community Policing Reporting Database. This new state law may result in drivers who are pulled over being asked certain demographic information.
Under the current Community Policing Act, each time a law-enforcement officer stops an Individual or Driver of a motor vehicle, such officer shall collect the following data based on the officer's observation or information provided to the officer by the Individual or Driver:

• The race, ethnicity, age, gender of the person stopped, and whether the person stopped spoke English;
• The reason for the stop;
• The location of the stop;
• Whether a warning, written citation, or summons was issued or whether any person was arrested;
• If a warning, written citation, or summons was issued or an arrest was made, the warning provided, violation charged, or crime charged;
• Whether the vehicle or any person was searched; and
• Whether the law-enforcement officer used physical force against any person and whether any person used physical force against any officers.
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Please visit Virginia Open Data Portal to find the Community Policing Act Data Collection by clicking the following link.

Community Police Data Collection