[sudo-discuss] OPD data

[Rachelle Annechino]

Thanks to everyone who replied with offers and suggestions. The public
records office just replied with some data in an xl spreadsheet form -- has
some important stuff missing though, so will try kicking it back for an
update. Fingers crossed, and thanks again -

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Max B <maxb.personal at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at 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 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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Rachelle Annechino
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