- Texas Justice Initiative has data on police shootings and deaths in custody, including prisons and jails.
- TCJC's criminal court database for Bexar, Harris, and Dallas counties lets you do racial break outs by arresting agency, offense category, and average bail amounts for those three jurisdictions.
- For data on prisons, probation, and parole, here's the 2018 TDCJ annual statistical report.
- Texas death row.
- There's TX annual racial profiling data from traffic stops by department, including data on searches and use of force. (Raw data by agency)
- The Prison Policy Institute compiled an array of sources on this topic.
Monday, June 15, 2020
Data sources on racial disparities in the Texas justice system
Been asked a few times now by reporters where to get data about racial disparities in the Texas criminal-justice system. Were I assigned that task, here's where I'd start:
If you're aware of other sources on this topic, please add them in the comments.
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Where is the link to the Texas County Jails COVID Data/Case Reports it was located at the below link. This link finalizes the data on May 31, 2020.
The Texas Jail Standards Commission Coronavirus reports released and updated on a regular basis: 10 jail facilities in the state. (TCJS COVID-19 Form A)
https://www.tcjs.state.tx.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/TCJS_COVID_Report.pdf
Ah, just change the 05 to 06 in the URL for the June report.
I didn't include that in the list bc it's not broken out by race.
Got it thank you very much
Do you have data on Travis County? It's not on the list
Not at the level the TCJC dashboard has for the other three. This report includes data on disparities in drug arrests. Here's data on disparities at traffic stops.
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