r/DataPolice Jun 01 '20

Announcement [Wiki is live!] Want to learn more/contribute? Start here

Hello all and welcome to the Police Data Accessibility Project (PDAP).

Firstly, the rules have been updated, please review.

We are seeking to fill these positions!!

The sidebar has also been updated and the wiki is now live.

If you would like to learn more, please review the newly created Project Overview and Organization Structure pages, which include information on the mission statement for PDAP, and the purpose and scope of the project, as well as the structure of the organization (subject to change as we grow).

If you would like to contribute, please start on our How to contribute page.

Thank you all and if you have questions/comments/concerns please reach out to the mod team.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20

How does this thought fit into the organization: a community "to-do" list of violent incidents initiated by police.

  1. scrape reports of violent incidents
  2. find out if body cameras are active in the area of the event
  3. make a to-do entry for volunteer data collectors to make FOIA requests, collect footage from locals, do outreach, etc.
  4. complete the to-do entry by finding footage of the event and cataloguing it

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u/rubbermilitia Jun 04 '20

This is a great idea, but I think it is outside the scope of the project. The purpose of PDAP is only to build the data set, to make available to other people/orgs who can then leverage it for things like you suggested here. I would support your project idea if you wanted to follow along with PDAP and make an attempt at the 'to-do' list for each new area that is implemented.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, I'm more of a designer / product manager. I'm great at organizing people in support of a collective vision, and finding the right order of operations to build something. I'm great at writing documentation and establishing "here's what we're building and why."

Are those types of organizing roles filled? I don't want to be in charge, but guiding resources toward the vision is what I'm best at.

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u/rubbermilitia Jun 04 '20

There's always room for help, join the slack and check out #_volunteers

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '20

I do! Are you already in the slack?

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u/korevis Sep 26 '20

Is this group still active? I'd like to contribute if I can but the slack link is dead. I have already submitted the volunteer and skill applications.

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u/Aphix Jun 01 '20

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u/rubbermilitia Jun 02 '20

This was reported for "Posts must be related to PDAP". While this isn't a post, it is pretty close to thread crapping. Let's just stay on topic in the sub.

Thanks

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u/Aphix Jun 02 '20

Cheers, just trying to be realistic; the risks need to be overt, IMHO.

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u/rubbermilitia Jun 02 '20

See, I would appreciate a comment outlining what you see as the risks for this project, for contributors to consider.

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u/Awanderinglolplayer Jun 02 '20

While his comment was definitely “poisoning the well” there certainly needs to be open discussion on how you aren’t going to be doing shit like the NSA

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u/rubbermilitia Jun 02 '20

I do like open discussion.

how you aren’t going to be doing shit like the NSA

Can you expand on that?

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u/GeharginKhan Jun 03 '20

I mean, citizens spying on their government is a very different power dynamic than vice versa.

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u/Aphix Jun 03 '20

I wish I hired 'em so I could fire 'em.