Show HN: Policing the Police with Scraped Data – Started on Reddit/HN

Predictive policing is rampant and growing. Why not try and do predictive policing on the Police themselves?

The road block isnt data availability, it is data accessibility.

PDAP.io started on Reddit and Hackernews, and as of last month we've accomplished a lot:

1. Became a legal entity 2. Pro-bono legal representation by Arnold & Porter 3. Leadership team, roles, processes stood up 4. Launched our first paid data bounty with Dolthub 5. 37 Pull requests merged into our scrapers repository (dozens of scrapers written) 6. 67 datasets scraped so far 7. Nearly complete dataset of all known American police records links (from the Dolthub bounty).

What we need now are more volunteers, specifically people who can write scrapers. Things are moving quickly, but with just a dozen or so people writing scrapers, we could accellerate this substantially with more help.

So, HN, if you have wanted to do something tangible to improve Police accountability, this is a concrete way to do it.