> Our mission is to make data from every U.S. police agency accessible via a single public resource.
More precisely:
> There are over 18,000 police organizations, and each has a unique way to publish information.
i.e. Police are publishing data? Let's organize it and make it easily accessible.
"Police data" is incredibly vague. What types of data are most interest and available from most of every agency?
If the only answer to what kind of data is "police data" then I'm not sure if I should care, support, or contribute.
Is this data on how many toilet paper roles departments purchase or police involved shootings? neither?
Certainly you can see where the question is coming from right?
That said, we still have work to do pointing people in this direction and helping them understand why. This whole thread is going to really affect our website and docs :)
I have gone through some of the public info for my department so I am curious.
Are police publishing arrests by time and geolocation? Quarterly stats by call or response? Then yes.
Hell, I'm sure if they are publishing coffee consumption numbers, that would go up as well.
I obviously don't know, and neither do you.
I don't know why you feel the need to weigh in on my question with unhelpful non-answers.