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I agree with you, and that's why the officer names are redacted. Things we might at first glance think are because of biased/racist/sexist cops might have good explanations. That said, visualizing this data does surface outliers really well, and each outlier should be further investigated IMO.

It all starts with getting all this data into one place, scraped from the thousands of county court records sites. It's a big task, but this data is priceless.

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Definitely agree, and hey this is really cool work. :) Wouldn't it be beautiful to have a nationwide map, where users could zoom to their county/city/town level, and immediately look at various outliers?

I'm beginning to think it might be the start to a more just society. Is that thinking this is bigger than it is? The implications just seem big to me. I don't think we are going to get privacy back, but if we can at least have transparency into things like policing, we stand a much better chance at holding our government accountable.

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