Research
Twenty-five years after the killing of Timothy Thomas sparked a citywide reckoning with police accountability in Cincinnati, a new Campaign Zero analysis reveals that racially biased policing has not only persisted — it has deepened. Drawing on over 472,000 police contact cards filed between 2009 and 2025, our report Contact Cards in Cincinnati documents what…
Campaign
Safe Cities is a first-of-its-kind national data platform redefining what public safety means and how it’s measured. By looking beyond crime statistics to include housing, healthcare, economic security, education, and carceral harm, it reveals the conditions that truly shape safety. The project empowers communities, journalists, and policymakers with transparent data to build safer cities through care—not punishment.
News Project Launch
For decades, America has measured public safety all wrong. We’ve treated it like a scoreboard—counting arrests, tracking crime rates, and equating bigger police budgets with safer communities. But those numbers don’t tell the real story—they reflect a culture of fear and punishment rather than the reality of community safety. Real safety is freedom from fear—fear…
News Updates
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine recently signed House Bill 315 into law, allowing law enforcement agencies to charge the public up to $75 per hour and up to $750 total for retrieving, redacting, and producing police video records, including body and dash cam footage. Legislators added these provisions to the omnibus bill at the last minute,…