Lawmakers and state police aim to make police data more accessible with new website
The new website is a result of the Virginia Community Policing Act
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Community policing data released Friday
ROANOKE, Va – Virginia lawmakers and state police are working to make crime data more accessible with a new website.
Last summer, the General Assembly passed the Virginia Community Policing Act, which requires officers to record certain data every time they make a stop. The act led to the creation of the Virginia Data Open Portal, a website that has stop data from Virginia law enforcement agencies from July 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021.
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