Thursday, October 26
Public Newsroom #39: Making Police Data Work For The Public
6:00 pm — 8:00 pm
How does the Chicago Police Department track their information and why does it matter? How can we make that information public, and how should we present it? The team behind the Citizens Police Data Project invite you to play with working prototypes of CPDP v2 beta and explore a new world of data about police interactions with the public in Chicago. Chaclyn Hunt, legal director of the Invisible Institute, and Rajiv Sinclair, architect of CPDP, will walk through the litigation and FOIA work to obtain police misconduct records going back to 1967. Andrew Fan, data director at the Invisible Institute, will walk us through the Tactical Response Report forms and an example of how we analyze a police unit, like the infamous Special Operations Section (SOS). Alex Laskaris, lead designer of CPDP, will critique the present day’s website and preview the upcoming design of CPDP.