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Baltimore County’s new police-data dashboards show public complaints seldom upheld

StateScoop: Officials in Baltimore County, Maryland, last week launched two new dashboards to track complaints against police and incidents in which officers used force, with the ability to see demographic data about both people who filed complaints about police behavior, as well as the officers themselves.

The dashboards, which cover a period beginning in January 2017, includes statistics about the gender, race and years of service of police officers who have used force on the job, or have been the subject of complaints. They also include similar information about people who have filed those complaints or been the subject of police use of force.

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