How do complaints of police misconduct compare by area of San Francisco? Complaints in a specific area can be a result of a number of factors - the training of a police force, the perception of police officers, the number of crimes that occurs, the amount of interaction between a citizenry and its police force, how data is collected, and so forth. While more complaints within an area may or may not mean more mishandling of the public by a police force, it might also mean a multitude of other things.

Instructions: Select an area of San Francisco by clicking it on the map or by clicking the corresponding dot. Next, select a specific allegation type to learn about the number of complaints.

Source: The Complaints and Allegation by Unit portion of the San Francisco Annual Report, located at the Reports and Statistics section of the San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints website. Go to http://www.sfgov3.org/index.aspx?page=515 to access the website. The Annual Reports are formatted as separate PDF's for each year. CACS is not responsible for the accuracy of data received from outside sources. Please email us at info@cacs.org if you believe you have found an error in the visualization.