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The Police Accountability Project serves as an independent and objective check on state and local law enforcement, adding a layer of transparency and accountability, and identifying any gaps in oversight so that they can be remedied.

The Police Accountability Project works to detect fraud, waste, abuse, and misconduct in law enforcement agencies. The Project’s mission is to uncover systemic issues in policing that open the State up to civil liability, and therefore significant amounts of taxpayer funds when policing goes wrong. The Project reviews and reports to the general public on how taxpayer funds are used for policing so taxpayers can understand for what public safety services they are actually paying. And the Project identifies areas where there are wasteful inefficiencies, or where funds may be lacking to fully implement police reform efforts and realize the stated goals of legislation and directives.