25 Oct
2014
25 Oct
'14
9:40 p.m.
Berkeley copwatch and some others have been working on visioning a peoples database which
would approach this task from the sort of other end. They've generally been short
developers with the time and capacity though. I'd be happy to make any necessary
introductions, etc if anyone's interested.
Max
On October 25, 2014 9:28:20 PM PDT, Rabbit <rabbitface(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'll contribute some technical/coding effort when
it's useful.
Converting
data, extracting stuff from PDFs, etc.
If they'll only give us non-machine-readable PDFs it might be worth it
to
crowdsource a transcription.
-Rabbit
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Rachelle Annechino <
joralemonshelly(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi sudo-discuss,
I've been doing some poking around looking into police accountability
in
the US... seems like one major stumbling block is
a lack of public
access
to police data. Here in Oakland, it looks like
OPD has a ton of data
on use
of force and complaints that could be
de-identified and made
available to
the public, used in data visualizations, etc. --
but isn't. (Not that
OPD's
data should be the only data source in
investigating accountability,
but I
figure it's a start. Also it looks like
*some* of this data is
available,
but it's a super limited subset + kind of all
over the place)
Recently I requested some data through RecordTrac
<http://records.oaklandnet.com>, chatted with the public records
request
coordinator... just kind of curious about what
would happen and how
it
worked. A lot of the OPD requests I saw on
RecordTrac received PDF
documents as responses -- but OPD is entering this stuff
electronically
AFAIK; you'd think a structured dataset would
be easier to produce if
anything.
Anyway, I'm wondering if other people on this list are interested in
this
stuff, have suggestions, thoughts, etc. It seems
like there should be
a
coordinated effort out there working on work on
this, but I haven't
found
one (?)
Thanks!
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