Without understanding the problems and ways police harm communities, throwing data at a problem is unlikely to result in good outcomes. Through the lens of “crime” harm is hard to separate from illegality. Driving with expired plates because you can’t afford it until next month is illegal, but it isn't causing the same amount of harm as burying that person under court fees and fines until they’re homeless. Unless you collect the right data, understand the data's meaning, data is useless.
Some starting places on harm police do to communities, if you’re interested:
- podcast: season 3 of Serial https://serialpodcast.org/season-three
- article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/over-policing-of-america_b_44...
- book: the end of policing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Policing