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Hi all,

I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at municipal budget documents (and police spending in particular). I created a spreadsheet (work-in-progress) for funds budgeted for police for all municipalities in Miami-Dade County, as well as a Guide to Consulting Your Local Government's Budget, both meant to be collaborative, living documents.

My friend just told me about this subreddit and the community on here - I understand that budget data might not be exactly what this project is focused on, but I figured I'd see!

Anyhow, great work, everyone!

The transparency in police action that this project is after will help everyone recover a little peace of mind from the tendency of select police officers to abuse their positions of power. It seems like whenever incidents such as this (police officers committing crimes/murder), there are are always media reports of the officer's legal status, but verified sources of court outcomes are sparse and difficult to locate. Are court proceedings made publicly available in some form?

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?

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.

I hope I am in the right place. I remember seeing a post on facebook that stated, since the uprising began, police brutality shot up 20%. Now, even when I type in things like 'police brutality 20%' and other relevant search terms, I am finding myself digging deep into my searches and coming up mostly empty handed. I have found some data, but nothing that's easy to read or seems to be the exact information that I'm searching for.

The graph I've found above shows a significant jump from the mid to mid-end of May 2020 in shootings, and I can't tell if the data comes from all shootings or just fatal, but this is as close as I've gotten. What I'm looking for is data regarding police brutality against protesters, the recent rise in shootings, as well as any data pertaining to the number of cases or allegations made against police including all acts of violence. I am personally seeing a dramatic rise, but cannot be sure if we have just reached a breaking-point as a society and are more vocal about what we are seeing, or if there truly are more reported cases as of late. I suppose I just can't tell if my anecdotal evidence lines up with the scientific evidence.

I am unable to attend the rallies and protests, as my son is medically fragile and I cannot put him at risk. This means that I am doing a lot of advocation online, and I'm really trying to maintain as much accuracy as I can within my social media posts. I need to be as factually accurate as possible to maintain validity and verifiability, and in order to be seen as a credible and reputable source of information.

Not only am I (and so many others) trying to fight against police brutality, but I am trying to fight for the change of all systemic injustices. This includes the discrimination-disparity continuum and social stratification, as well as how government-sponsored displacement, exclusion, and segregation has exacerbated racial inequality in the United States.

If you have any other information that you find pertinent or that you think I should also take into consideration, or if you are aware of any other platforms, groups or programs I can contribute to,please feel free to link me to that. If you'd like to enlighten me on anything, I am all-ears.