The Alberta Police Accountability Project is an independent, non-partisan public-interest record. It brings together, in one place and in plain language, what is already on the public record about police-involved deaths, serious injuries, criminal charges, funding, and litigation involving the Edmonton Police Service and Calgary Police Service.

Our purpose is transparency: to make information that is scattered across oversight releases, court records, budgets, and news reports easy to find, easy to understand, and traceable to its source. We are not anti-police; we are pro-accountability and pro-public-record. Where police services do something well, the data should show that too.

Principles

• Two sources, always. See the methodology.
• Plain facts, not opinion. We summarize what sources state, neutrally.
• Dignity. People harmed are more than statistics; families have a say in how loved ones are represented.
• Fairness. Named individuals — including officers — have a right of reply.
• Openness. The underlying data is downloadable, and our limits are stated plainly.

Corrections & right of reply

A note on the harder data

Some of the most important data — particularly the cost of lawsuits and settlements — is not routinely published by either police service. Obtaining it requires freedom-of-information (ATIA / FOIP) requests, which take time. Rather than guess, we leave those figures blank and label them as pending until they can be verified. The blanks are themselves part of the story.

Sources & partners

Primary sources include ASIRT and the Alberta Police Review Commission, the courts, the Cities of Edmonton and Calgary and their police commissions, and accredited news media. Trend and disproportionality context draws on published work including Tracking (In)Justice, cited where used.