First realize that these databases exist locally already and are used to implement predicative policing, which is when a police force uses criminal databases to decide where to place patrolmen so as to facilitate both rapid response and preventive measures. This has existed in some form or another since the late 90s, and is largely credited with the decrease in crime starting around then, but it has lately grown extremely sophisticated and is coupled with surveillance and all sorts of other things the gen pop doesn't like. The ethics of this are hotly debated and you can research that yourself. The keyword will be racial bias.

Now that we know that it should be easy to see how a publicly available database of an entire nation of 300m+ will be used by all types of organizations to make far reaching conclusions. Even when the database does not include you it still will allow people to make predictions on YOU and your community based on your absence. This is simply not possible with the current system of disjoint local court records.

I'm not ted kaczynski. Please think about what you're advocating for. Big Brother is already watching you on this front, but I don't see why you'd want to invite the rest of the family, too.

https://www.broadcastify.com/archives/feed/27918

I've got a rack in my basement with some older Dell PowerEdge 2950s and FTTH if it would be any help. I've got a Ubiquiti Edgerouter pro with 5 open ports too. I could snag a dedicated NAS for the project if that would help.

So in "may-issue" states people can conceal-carry a gun if they have a permit/license to do so, which they can receive at the discretion of someone else (e.g., Sheriff's Office). Are there data on this? Any reason to think this information wouldn't be subject to FOIA?

Hi everyone,

A group of students from Cambridge University is developing CAUSE: a non-profit social media platform designed specifically for activists. We'd be delighted to hear your thoughts, and if you want to make your voice heard about development please do join as a Member today, for free.

Our website has launched, with more information here: https://cause.cx

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Consider subscribing if you haven't yet! Our most recent edition went into some detail about a game-changing donation, and our first news citation. We're not far out from releasing an alpha of our app, for which we will need feedback, testing, and discussion. Exciting times!

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If you'd like to help identify useful Data Sources, we will be gathering to do some data labeling tomorrow, June 9, at 11:30am ET! All you need is internet access. We'll spend about 15 minutes training and label for an hour, or as long as you'd like.

These happen in Discord: https://discord.gg/wMqex8nKZJ

You will also need a free PDAP account: https://pdap.io/sign-up

Feel free to comment or otherwise reach out if that doesn't work for you and you'd like to get trained another time.

Humans of Earth, Campaign Zero is a project that has existed for years and aims at the same goals as this subreddit. https://www.joincampaignzero.org/ They have great reports here: https://www.joincampaignzero.org/reports Rather than duplicating efforts, perhaps there should be coordination?

Huge injustices to children have been institutionalized in our family courts. I would like to see all of this data made transparent. For example:

• Did the mother or father ask for custody

• Did the mother or father win custody

• Which Judge or Magistrate heard the case

• Any other available information that can be normalized.

By shining a light on these injustices I would hope we could start to work on fixing them. I would actually not stop at family court data. I want to see ALL court data made 100% transparent so we can see what the heck is going on with our injustice system.

Trying to help the cause.

Zooniverse is a platform for people powered research by volunteers for causes. It’s also becoming more widely known giving more opportunity for resources.

Might be worth throwing this this cause up there. It needs to be chartered by those running this operation of course.

Zooniverse.org

Good evening.

After consulting with my legal counsel (which I am personally required to do with major external hobbies/projects that involve the general public), and with the rate at which the project is growing, I have been advised/counseled that I will no longer be able to continue working with this project due to liability reasons, potential future conflicts of interest, and other risk-factors.

In other words, I would love to continue to participate, but due to my current obligations with certain types of data (not police-related, just sensitive), my legal team does not feel comfortable with me continuing work and/or contributions here. They (and I) feel the work being done here is important, and wish for the continued success of the project.

At this time, I will be transferring the full technical and obligatory ownership/Moderator rights of the “reddit.com/r/datapolice” “subreddit” to the user account “/u/transtwin”, along with the joint continued moderator status of “/u/joka86”.

I wish you the best in your future endeavors with this important effort and project.

Best of luck,

Astor Whitney

“u/politicalindemnity”

Here's the Discord event: https://discord.gg/h37Nbpwf?event=1050105269880885270

We're going to have a working session on 12/15 at 6:30pm ET! If you haven't been sure how to contribute, this is a good opportunity to help. You don't need prior experience—just access to a computer for an hour at the time of the event.

Context: one of our volunteers has built an experimental machine learning pipeline. In an hour, we should be able to annotate a few hundred URLs and see how the model does.

I've posted before about our "Request data" form. We've received some solid requests so far, and have been pairing requestors with known volunteers from Discord and elsewhere. You can see the public version here.

Now, we've released an accompanying form for volunteers. We get a few steady flow of people joining the Discord weekly, but it's not like potential volunteers check the server every day for notifications. If you have skills to share, please submit! We won't share your info, but we'll reach out if someone in the community needs data help.

There's only been a few posts here in the past 2 weeks, and slack is looking dead too.

Is there a list of web scrapers available or guides on building one for public records?

I am curious what resources all of you guys use to learn more information about the police officers in your area. I'm think like court documents, complaints filed against an officer or police force and more public information on the authority in my town.

We have opened the Police Data Access Point for free public signups at https://pdap.io. Here's the press release. Now is the time to share our website with everyone who might be interested!

If you think our work is important, please take a moment to create an account and follow a location or two that mean something to you.

Hello all!
The Police Data Accessibility Project is seeking more moderators for the subreddit.

As the sub continues to grow and the PDAP project continues to move forward, we will need more mods to assist with moderating the subreddit and interfacing with the recognition team and other teams in the project in order to keep the sub relevant and the wiki up to date.

If you would like to assist in moderating the subreddit, please apply here https://forms.gle/csS9rwR5CJCBXwGZ8

Thanks!