This group seems to have turned into a group that's only interested in scraping "criminal records" and "court records" over police accountability records, and b

This group seems to have turned into a group that's only interested in scraping "criminal records" and "court records" over police accountability records, and believes that cop names should be removed from scraped records. They've also openly discussed inviting cops and FBI employees into their slack to discuss scraping. Consider that "Police Data Accessibility Project" is another way of saying "We only make available data that the police want us to make available.". The project itself has tons of managerial types (who happily put PDAP on their linkedin pages..) trying to manage the 2,500 people who have joined their slack, however only a small number of contributors are actually working on scrapers (~2), who like I said -- are focusing on "criminal" datasets and not datasets around accountability. In doing so, they're effectively ignoring the core of the data that exists to aid in police accountability, eg complaints and misconduct records themselves. This shouldn't be a surprise, since police agencies tend NOT to provide information online that could be used against them in court, and they WILL fight to the teeth to prevent the release of damning records. Souce: I spend a lot of time with FOIA trying to get misconduct records.. The group's foundation is also shaky. The group was started by owners of a marketing company, frac.tl that specializes in exploiting emotions to turn something viral, which on its own should raise flags. The blog post that "started" their supposed movement has three listed writers over the course of several months [1][2][3]. The data from this blog post (afaict the only dataset actually released that's tied to this project) was found to contain private information and had to be cleaned up - 6mo after it was pushed onto github and forked many times. If you are looking for a group to support, please consider either volunteering with or donating to local police accountability groups. Your time/donations would be much better served with them. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20191118214540/https://lawsuit.org/keeping-cops-accountable/ https://web.archive.org/web/20191118214540/https://lawsuit.o... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200518181855/https://lawsuit.org/keeping-cops-accountable/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200518181855/https://lawsuit.o... [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20200527213804/https://lawsuit.org/keeping-cops-accountable/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200527213804/https://lawsuit.o...