Layer - Police accountability

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Overview

• Conversation: how to support Fatal Encounters?

  Can we interview Brian, Brendan O’Connor, others?

  MetaLab built Their Names to visualize this

• Conversation: can we work w/PDAP? Interview, interest.

• Focus: police killings, abuse of protesters, attacks on journalists, related law + policy

Data Initiatives

Help each group frame their question. Center this in the U of related Qs.

• Police Data Initiative: Complaints dataset (ZV intro)

• Police Data Accessibility: data project (for now: P reports)

• Campaign Zero (scorecards)

• CPDP - Chicago only. Can we extend nationally? PDA is interested

• Fatal Encounters

• WaPo - Fatal Force (public data, paywalled summary)

• Guardian - The Counted (2015-16 only)

• Muckrock FOIA Requests

• City-specific:

  • NYC Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Data, 2015 - 2018

  • Invisible Institute: Chicago Citizens police data project (cpdp)

• Lucy Parsons Lab Open Oversight Project (github)

• WatchWatch: Documenting police brutality against protesters

• 2020PB: Police brutality at George Floyd Protests (github)

• Guardian Attacks on Journalists (doc on Guardian project)

PDA Project

• Goal - Aggregate data, present it, assist others in using it
  cit oversight boards, researchers, visualizers

• Workflow - FOIA + request processing; site scraping; partners?

• Need - Clear license

• What Qs to answer? not clear so far.
  Current team: Reddit Privacy… few criminologists.
  want to post an article to reach out

• Subreddit/FB/Twitter posts: notyet

• Ways to work together:

  • DVaughan to post notes to their GitHub

  • building a catalog of existing projects (local communities, different campaigns, different approaches, different classes of data)

  • feedback on setting up a 501c3

  • publishing essays + visuals (PubPub community?)

  • describing the schemas of data that you are gathering, and the specific questions you are answering w/ that data

  • defining potential partners w/ data or tools to align (like CPDP)

  • quick-starts w/ a fiscal sponsor (like Tides)

Fatal Encounters

• Fatal Encounters (grassroots, under-appreciated, slow since ‘19?)

• DBB: maintainer. Brendan O’Connor (AI): UMassAm (emailed)
  Ask O’Connor for status, and D. Brian for challenges to keeping this up

• Matt @ MetaLab working on Their Names