[sudo-discuss] OPD data

[Rabbit]

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 at 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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