In North Carolina, the Bureau of Investigation is required to collect and report on all traffic stops made by police officers in the state. This data can be challenging to access, so a non-profit built
Open Data Policing, a site intended to give transparency into this data. However, the site had usability issues and was geared more towards lawyers and specialists. In 2020, the advocacy group Forward Justice wanted to launch a new site based on that data with the intent of making it more usable for activists and concerned community members. Caktus Group built the original site as a pro bono project. For the new site, they partnered with Purpose UX to define the features and update the UI for what became
NCCopwatch.