POL- Use of Force Details: Police-Subject Force Incidents

Montgomery County of Maryland's dataset documents instances of force used by police officers on subjects and force used by subjects on officers. The data includes detailed columns on event classification, officer and subject actions, weapons used, subject demographics, and medical outcomes. It is updated daily and available across multiple government data platforms.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal patterns of force incidents using the Event Date/Time column.
• Correlating subject demographics like Subj Age and Subj Alcohol use with specific force types.
• Assessing officer and subject injury outcomes using Subject Treated - hospital and Ofc Treated - Police - firstaid columns.
• Evaluating the deployment and impact of conducted energy weapons (CEWs) using Ofc CEW # of Cartridges and Ofc CEW Point of Impact columns.
• Tracking incident classification and reporting workflow using Event Class Description and ReportGUID.

Strengths

• Updated daily, indicating a commitment to current data.
• Contains granular details on force types, weapons, and medical outcomes across 30+ columns.
• Cross-platform presence on Socrata and Data.gov suggests official dissemination and importance.

Limitations

• Key metadata like row count, license, and author are missing from all sources.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date (2026-05-28 vs 2026-04-12).
• The dataset's scale and completeness are unknown due to missing size and row information.

Provenance

Source

Montgomery County of Maryland

Collection Method

Likely contains administrative records from police incident reports.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-05-28 according to Socrata.

Geography

Montgomery County, Maryland, USA