NJ.com's Ground-Breaking Look at Police Force

Posted Monday, December 3, 2018 12:00 pm

Kristen Hare | Poynter

Reporters at NJ.com took 72,607 incident forms from 565 municipalities in the last five years.

It took 506 public records requests.

It cost about $36,500 in records requests, digitization, data entry and fact-checking.

It took more than a year to go through all the data. It took months to clean it.

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NJ.com's Ground-Breaking Look at Police Force

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