George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Philando Castille. The list goes on. All were victims of failed policing – use of force, implicit bias, ineffective policing, and bad community relationships. Good policing relationships are based on trust. To obtain trust, transparency is needed to cultivate healthy police-community relationships fostering an effective and open accountability feedback loop between theContinue reading “Open Crime Data Can Address Bad Policing”
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Week of September 14, 2020
Predictive policing turns into harassment, racial bias in policing, increase in gun violence, 2019 BJS criminal victimization survey findings, body cam transparency, and more… POLICE CONDUCT Pasco County Sheriff launched an algorithm to predict who might commit a crime. Dozens of people said they were harassed by deputies for no reason. (Business Insider) Race, policing, andContinue reading “Week of September 14, 2020”
The Most Common Barriers to Accessing Police Data
One of the biggest drivers behind the current police reform demands in the US is police data. There are a myriad of police datasets available within a police department that paint a picture of the inner workings and behavior of its officers with the public. There are many different datasets circulating within a police agency. OneContinue reading “The Most Common Barriers to Accessing Police Data”
Brittany Suszan 