Yellow Scene Magazine: Earlier this year, the Boulder Police Department released data on its stops and use of force practices by race, but the picture it paints is incomplete. 

The dashboard released by the Boulder PD includes reports on use-of-force-by-race and stops-by-race starting in 2024, with annual overviews shown for the years 2021 to 2023. This limited data does not compare to the in-depth information dashboards released by other Colorado police departments, and it does not reflect the thorough data sets that advocacy groups have been asking the city to share.  

“We are committed to being more transparent, and as part of that transparency, we are working diligently to find additional ways to share data with our community,” Boulder PD Chief Stephen Redfearn and Chief Data Analyst Dr. Daniel Reinhard said in an email to Yellow Scene Magazine. “Due to requests from the community, we now have 13 dashboards, including the new use of force and contacts dashboards.”

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