police-brutality

Hi HN - Ian and Anuj here. Organized is a public repo that provides resources about requesting public records from police departments and ensures that records that are requested and received are made available and permanent We want to make it simple for anyone to request records from their local or state department by consolidating information about the relevant Freedom of Information laws and drafting templates for record request submissions. Additionally, records that are received from police departments can be shared publicly and categorized in the repo, allowing for other citizens, investigative journalists, or nonprofit organizations to search for and use the data for their own analysis and activism. Previously, we started organizeapp.org, a site to collect police misconduct information from first hand experiences. Based on our learn

Here you go [1]. This DB contains multiple provable violation of ethics in multiple measurable and easily digestible forms such as graphs and stats. I assume you will agree that this is close to objectivity and therefore police are indeed corrupt? [1] https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality

You're looking at a giant list of videos that people think are unjustified. You can go through and weed out videos that you think don't belong there. You can even submit pull requests to more organized compilations to remove unsubstantiated claims. Your use of "unjustified" is entirely subjective. I don't know what your specific threshold is for justified violence against peaceful protestors, and it's a waste of time to try and guess what that threshold is. It's a waste of time for us to filter the data, only for you to then point out two videos you disagree with and ask everyone to repeat the same work over and over again. All of the raw data is available to you in a list format. If you think there are errors, then fork the repo, file a pull request, or create an issue. Make your own list that demonstrates your point. https://github.com/

This repo has a nice data API and multiple different video download archives + an open source download tool for the data https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality

This repo has a tool that supports IPFS! https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/tree/master/tools...

This repo (linked in this spreadsheet) has both a similar listing + a downloader tool here: https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/tree/master/tools...

There's also a Github repo [1] which was posted a while ago containing various instances of police brutality as well as other sites using said data to better illustrate the problem. [1] https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality

> I’ve been reviewing the footage from Seattle — and protestors started every instance of violence by first getting forceful with the cops. That's funny, because the majority of the clips I've seen have unprovoked or inappropriate responses from the police. Seattle alone [0] has had numerous incidents. It's trivially easy to see this, to the point that one would have to ignore many incidents to say "every instance" was started by protestors. I believe that you are not arguing in good faith. [0]: https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/blob/master/repor...

> but it's not all them. Sure, and the other ones look the other way. Totally "good" guys just lettin' bad guys be bad guys. Until the "good" guys start going after and punishing the "few bad ones", they are all bad. If we're going to use the "just some bad apples" argument, then it might be prudent to apply it to the protestors, too? At this point it's borderline ignorant to be unaware of the ongoing police brutalities. And if one -is- aware, it's disingenuous to compare what they're doing to some stores being set on fire- turns out people really, really care about property damage suddenly. [0] [1] [0]: https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/blob/master/repor... [1]: https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/blob/master/repor...

Some of this is being documented on Github. https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/tree/master/repor... There are several open issues that tech could help out on (IPFS backup, front end for viewing, ...)

I've seen videos of unjustified force by PDs in not just my hometown but my college town as well. Surely there are good police departments, but there are far too many police departments ending up in this GitHub repo that tracks police brutality https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality

There's one from NYC that says: "A police officer forcefully pulls off a protestors face mask and pepper sprays him. The protestor had his hands up in surrender when this happened." From https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/blob/master/repor... If you look at the video though the guy was pushing towards the officer against the officer's hand. What do you expect to happen when you decide to aggress on an officer instead of back away? Here's the video they link https://twitter.com/_doreenpt/status/1266994439039455232 How many other incidents are there in this repo that are unfairly listed/described?

A laudable idea but why restrict it to the protests? There's a problem with police brutality in lots of places and at lots of times (even just the perception of it), perhaps a more standard way to report and record which can be replicated easily and hence, compared better, might be an idea. (As I was writing an issue opened up on this kind of point https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/issues/83) It seems to me that the current set up excludes the vast majority of people (who are unlikely to know markdown, Git, or Github) which limits its effectiveness.