Recently released city documents show at least a dozen Minneapolis police officers were disciplined for misconduct in the days of demonstrations and rioting following George Floyd’s May 2020 police killing.
Who’s going to pay for that data from every tiny PD to be sanitized? Every PD will be slightly different and they may change vendors every couple of years. It sounds like a nightmare.
My point is you don’t want or need “all the data”. You only want the 0.001% that involves use of force.
There’s a whole field in CS that deals with this kind of thing.
It’s not nearly as hard as you’re making out; I do it every day.
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Are you saying CS isn’t hard? Yeah everyone knows regex is super easy.
Sanitizing and merging data sources isn’t some arcane art in which one needs decades of training to be proficient.
Like I said: I do it every day.
But go on and tell me how hard my job is; I’ll put it on my performance review.
Uh, it is hard. If it wasn’t they wouldn’t pay you for it.
Don’t sell yourself short.
Then I guess I don’t understand what point you’re arguing.
Because I guarantee someone would do the job if the data was available.
Who’s going to pay for that data from every tiny PD to be sanitized? Every PD will be slightly different and they may change vendors every couple of years. It sounds like a nightmare.
My point is you don’t want or need “all the data”. You only want the 0.001% that involves use of force.
You have a bad take. Yes all of the data. If my offense are public information, then offenses against the public, mundane or severe, should be public.
Edit: on retrospect, police conduct data should be public regardless of the public status of my or your record.
Offences against the public should be documented publicly.
My job has clients who change vendors constantly, too.
It’s not nearly as big a deal as you’re making it out to be, especially since you don’t even know if your unlikely hypothetical scenario even happens.
So… Whatever I guess.