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I'm really fascinated by this. Attention is all you need. But not the way we here at HN expect. If you investigate police statistics, you'll see that the "st
by xrd 3y ago
I'm really fascinated by this.
Attention is all you need. But not the way we here at HN expect.
If you investigate police statistics, you'll see that the "story" about the statistics is often dictated by the availability of the statistics. Go to a "safe" city and review the statistics on the police department website. The availability of those statistics is all over the place, and one city will claim they can't publish the information from past years because of COVID-19, and the next city will say that they can only publish information from the past because of COVID-19. One city will claim impossible to verify outcomes. And, another city will publish information which will be used to prove political points by failing newspapers.
This feels like it could really shift attention to processing information and bringing attention to when that information isn't available.
- onthecanposting 3y agoHumorous fact: half of Asher Avenue was renamed to Colonel Glenn Avenue in Little Rock to confound crime reporting that was linked to street names. Lies, damned lies, and statistics...
- barnabyjones 3y agoWouldn't you then be reliant on community members to track down that information and feed it into the system? In which case the end result would still be a matter of how determined the community is to keep police accountable, which I don't see changing much.
- xrd 3y agoIt's probably my own biases, but I feel like the community is going to be a lot more reliable and motivated to publish information than the organizations which are scrutinized by that information being public.