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Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct
- monkaiju 2y agoThey obviously were never going to effectively document themselves... Much better that we do it ourselves, we already have a fairly good system in Utah and it's open to submissions from other states: https://app.copdb.org https://app.copdb.org
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoI hate hate hate to suggest it, but maybe maybe maybe governments should post their data to some kind of a blockchain the future. So petty loser censorial fascist pieces of shit don't get to delete history like this.
- Tomte 2y agoYou can simply put it on a web site (and maybe sign it) so that everybody can mirror and archive the data. The blockchain is irrelevant here.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoPropublica would make a good home for such a database.
- palmotea 2y ago> I hate hate hate to suggest it, but maybe maybe maybe governments should post their data to some kind of a blockchain the future. Except that not all government data should be public. Maybe this database should have been (but it was not), but "making things public" is not a general solution. > So petty loser censorial fascist pieces of shit don't get to delete history like this. I don't think this "deletes history." It looks like this was just a compilation of existing records.
- Larrikin 2y agoFBI crime statistics that certain groups of people like to post as evidence are all voluntary data some police departments give themselves. A full database of data that isn't voluntary about the police doing the reporting was an invaluable start.
- jackstraw14 2y ago> blockchain part of the reason they've chosen this strategy is because the tools we have are laughably inadequate to protect democracy. please don't give them more fuel.
- emorning3 2y ago[flagged]