I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police by scraping court data 88 by kristintynski | 12 comments on Hacker News. Almost 3 years ago, I posted a story of how a post I wrote about utilizing county level police data to "police the police" to r/privacy and hackernews. https://ift.tt/yZ8Ck1B The idea quickly evolved into a real goal, to make good on the promise of free and open policing data. By freeing policing data from antiquated and difficult-to-access county data systems, and compiling that data in a rigorous way, we could create a valuable new tool to level the playing field and help provide community oversight of police behavior and activity. In the almost 3 years since the first post, something amazing has happened. The idea turned into something real. Something called The Police Data Accessibility Project. (https://www.pdap.io) More than 2,000 people joined the initial community, and while those numbers dwindled after the initial excitement, a core grou...