Show HN: I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police

About a week ago, a blog post I wrote about my experience scraping and analyzing public court records data to find dirty cops got very popular on Reddit and HackerNews.

https://lawsuit.org/keeping-cops-accountable/

As a result, I started a slack channel for others who were interested in scraping public court records, in an effort to create the first public repository of full county level court records for as many counties as possible.

Now, less than a week later, 71 journalists, data scientists, developers, and activists have joined.

We are now organizing this grassroots project, and I couldn't be more proud or excited.