Open Data Reports
Trends Across Years
The figures below are the ones JSO's Open Data Reports, 2015 through 2025, report consistently enough to compare year to year. Every point is a count JSO published for that report's own year, unless a chart's note says otherwise. We never fill a gap by working backward from a rounded percentage, and each chart's note explains where JSO changed what a figure covers.
Response to Resistance Incidents
How many incidents JSO reported in which an officer used force that required a Response to Resistance (RTR) report. Note: Through 2018, JSO reported a single RTR total (the 2017 and 2018 reports say it covers police, corrections and judicial officers). From 2019 it reports police and corrections separately, and the "All officers" line from 2019 on is our sum of those two figures, not a total JSO published. Judicial officers aren't broken out after 2018, so the line isn't guaranteed to cover exactly the same officers before and after. The 2024 report added a reporting criterion (a restrained subject struck in the head or neck), and the 2025 corrections figure excludes nine incidents still under review.
Data obtained from JSO Open Data Reports
Officer-Involved Shootings
The number of officer-involved shooting incidents JSO reported each year. Note: Counts are incidents, not people shot or officers involved.
Data obtained from JSO Open Data Reports
Arrests
Total arrests JSO reported. This is the figure the reports use as context for how often force is used. Note: The 2020-2022 Open Data Reports don't state an arrest total, so those years come from JSO's Year in Review for the same year. In every year both publications report (2015-2019 and 2023), their arrest totals match exactly. The 2015 Open Data Report gives two slightly different figures; the table figure (39,890) is used here.
Data obtained from JSO Open Data Reports
Calls and Police/Citizen Interactions
JSO's yearly activity totals: calls from citizens, calls dispatched to officers, officer-initiated (on-view) activity, and the interaction and calls-for-service totals JSO uses as context for its use-of-force figures. Note: These come from JSO's Year in Review, which runs through 2023 (Open Data Report figures are used where they exist). JSO stopped reporting police/citizen interactions after 2020 and began reporting police calls for service in 2021. They are different measures, so they're shown as separate lines. Through 2020, interactions add up to dispatched calls plus on-view activity (the 2018 Open Data Report's figure is one higher).
Data obtained from JSO Open Data Reports
Complaints Received
Complaints against JSO employees, split by who made them. "In-house" complaints come from within the agency. Note: Complaint figures start with the 2017 report; the 2015 and 2016 reports don't include them.
Data obtained from JSO Open Data Reports
Sustained Complaints
Investigated complaints where a preponderance of evidence showed the employee committed the alleged misconduct. Note: Disposition totals exclude investigations still active and complaints that didn't warrant an administrative investigation. The reports never say how many fall into each, so the sustained count can't be read as a share of complaints received.
Data obtained from JSO Open Data Reports
Complaint Dispositions
How investigated complaints ended: sustained, not sustained (evidence could neither prove nor disprove), exonerated (it happened but was lawful and proper) or unfounded (false or unsupported). Note: Disposition totals exclude investigations still active and complaints that didn't warrant an administrative investigation. The reports never say how many fall into each. The 2019 report calculates its disposition percentages against all complaints received rather than against these four totals, so its published percentages won't match the shares shown here.
Data obtained from JSO Open Data Reports
Unnecessary Force Allegations
Allegations of unnecessary force that JSO reported reviewing, against how many were sustained. Note: From the 2020 report on, most allegations in the total were closed after an initial review (such as of body-worn camera video) without a formal investigation, so they have no formal disposition. Earlier reports fold such cases into their disposition counts. The 2015-2016 reports used a different measure and are not included.
Data obtained from JSO Open Data Reports
Bias-Based Profiling Complaints
Complaints alleging bias-based profiling that JSO reported receiving, and how many it reported sustaining. Note: The 2020 figures are the revised counts (11 received, 1 sustained) from a December 2022 review; the report originally published 10 and 0. The 2017 and 2018 reports don't state a sustained count, so those years are blank.
Data obtained from JSO Open Data Reports
Terminations
Employees terminated as a corrective or disciplinary action following a sustained complaint. Note: The 2018 and 2019 reports give disciplinary actions only as rounded percentages, so those years are left blank. One sustained complaint can lead to more than one action, and counts can include investigations begun in an earlier year.
Data obtained from JSO Open Data Reports
Assaults on Officers
Battery on a law enforcement officer incidents JSO reported. Note: These figures begin with the 2019 report.
Data obtained from JSO Open Data Reports