Delivering Action-Oriented Research

BDI produces innovative data and analysis on political violence to enable trend monitoring, early warning, and response.

Data-driven research is at the heart of our work. BDI seeks to fill gaps in information about political violence in the United States and translate these insights into timely, accessible, and actionable resources that empower people working to mitigate risk. Learn more about our core research projects and explore our latest data and analysis.

Key Projects

Building and Modeling Structures for Early Warning

Learn more about our real-time system for identifying emerging threats and providing situational awareness for community response.

Geographies of Risk and Resilience

Explore our project mapping risk and the sectors working to mitigate it throughout the country.

Understanding Threats and Harassment

Get data and analysis from our first-of-its-kind research project tracking hostility faced by local officials around the country.

Political Violence Data and Analysis Library

Access a curated repository of data and analysis from BDI and the broader research ecosystem. 

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Latest Publications

Understanding Threats and Harassment
Local Officials Seek Increased Safety Support Amid Heightened Threat Environment, Survey Results Show
June 26, 2025
Understanding Threats and Harassment
Survey of Local Elected Officials on Threats and Harassment: Q1 2025
June 26, 2025
Advisory Support
Understanding Threats and Harassment
Protecting Local Democracy: Policy Solutions to Address Rising Threats Against Officeholders
May 14, 2025
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Research in Action

See how BDI’s research is being used to inform reporting and response efforts.

Violence Targeting Local Officials: 2024 Annual Report

ACLED, May 2025

Listen to elections professionals if you want to cultivate agency, reduce burnout and increase retention

Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement at the University of Maryland, April 2025

Governmental workers can defuse incivility, experts advise

Public Health Newswire, April 2025

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Let’s Work Together

We partner with the media, public officials, community groups, and other mission-aligned organizations at the national, state, and local level. Contact us to discuss how we can work together to track and mitigate violence.