Introduction to Police Transparency

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Police Transparency can be used to share authoritative information and communicate engagement efforts that build trust with the public and community stakeholders.

In some communities, inequitable policing practices have eroded the public’s trust and challenged the legitimacy of local law enforcement agencies. As a result, many agencies are seeking new ways to improve their relationship with the communities they serve. The larger reform efforts are helping law enforcement agencies improve transparency and demonstrate accountable police policies. At the same time, agencies are also engaging the community more deeply and using their feedback to drive policing priorities and enforcement policies. Police Transparency is typically implemented by law enforcement agencies that want to increase transparency, grow public trust, and improve relationships with the communities they serve.

The Police Transparency solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you share information openly with the public, promote your agency’s work, demonstrate accountability when force is used, illustrate how workforce recruiting reflects the diversity of the community, and engage the public to improve policing services.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Police Transparency requires the following:

  • ArcGIS Online
  • ArcGIS Hub Premium (optional)
  • ArcGIS Pro 3.3 or later

Information products

Police Transparency includes the following information products:

ItemDescriptionMinimum user type
Police Transparency

An ArcGIS Hub site used by the public to understand community crime conditions, explore patterns of police use of force, learn about the diversity of their police force, access open data, and discover opportunities for police-community engagement.

Not required

Community Calls for Service Explorer

An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by the public to explore calls for service in their community and around areas of interest.

Not required

Community Crime Explorer

An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by the public to explore crime conditions in their community and around areas of interest.

Not required

Use of Force Summary Dashboard

An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by the public to understand overall trends in use of force incidents.

Not required

Use of Force by Subject

An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by the public to explore characteristics of the subjects of use of force incidents.

Not required

Use of Force by Officer

An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by the public to explore characteristics of the officers involved in use of force incidents.

Not required

Police Personnel Dashboard

An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by the public to understand the demographic composition of the police workforce.

Not required

Year-to-date Crime Statistics Dashboard

An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by the public to explore statistical trends by crime type.

Not required

My Community Officer

An ArcGIS Instant Apps app used by the public to learn about the community policing officer responsible for an area of interest and how to contact them.

Not required

Police Interaction Survey

An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by the public to provide feedback about their interactions with police personnel.

Not required

Community Safety and Police Satisfaction Survey

An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by the public to report their perceptions of community safety and holistic performance of their police agency.

Not required

Law Enforcement Data Management

An ArcGIS Pro project used by crime analysts to automate data imports from records management or computer-aided dispatch systems, which helps crime analysts free up time typically spent on data preparation.

Creator

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

VersionDescription
3.0 (July 2025)
  • A new Police Transparency site provides simplified styling for easier alignment to agency branding.
  • A new My Community Officer app enables users to find a location's beat, district, and division, in addition to the community policing officer.
  • A new Year-to-date Crime Statistics Dashboard app replaces the Crime Summary Dashboard app and provides at-a-glance statistics for major crime categories.
  • A new Community Crime Explorer app replaces the Crime Trends Dashboard and Public Crime Map apps, consolidating multiple apps with similar functionality, and removing a deprecating ArcGIS Web AppBuilder app.
  • A new Community Calls for Service Explorer app enables exploration of police calls for service activity.
  • A new Use of Force Summary Dashboard replaces custom JSON charts on the Use of Force page to simplify deployment and configuration.
  • A new version of the Use of Force by Subject app provides simpler styling for easier alignment with agency branding.
  • A new version of the Use of Force by Officer app provides simpler styling for easier alignment with agency branding.
  • The Police Personnel Dashboard app replaces the Law Enforcement Diversity Dashboard app, providing simpler styling for easier alignment with agency branding.
  • The solution now includes a series of new maps, feature layer views, and feature layer views to support the new apps.
  • The solution now includes public-facing versions of Calls For Service data as well as Beat, District, and Division boundary layers, to expand open data sharing efforts.
2.2 (Nov 2023)
  • A new Law Enforcement Data Management ArcGIS Pro project.
2.1 (Mar 2023)
  • A new Law Enforcement Data Management ArcGIS Pro project that resolves an issue where the Transform Crime Data and Transform Call Date models would fail when run as a scheduled task.
2.0 (Nov 2022)
  • A new Police Transparency site.
  • A new Crime Trends Dashboard, Crime Summary Dashboard, Crime Summary Mobile Dashboard, and Public Crime Map that leverages a new common crimes feature layer.
  • A new Law Enforcement Data Management ArcGIS Pro project to help you load and manage your data.
  • Removed the Community Crime Problem Reporter, Community Crime Problem Manager, Community Crime Problem Editor, and Community Crime Problem Dashboard from the solution.
1.0 (Nov 2020)