Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API

Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API by ceejayoz on Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:27PM (#23785422)

Perhaps, but how often do you hear tortured, nonsensical phrasing like "the suspect's gun shot the victim" when discussing non-police incidents?

Sometimes the voice switches mid-tweet when the subject does:

> Minneapolis: A photographer was shot in the eye.

> Washington, D.C.: Protesters struck a journalist with his own microphone.

> Louisville: A reporter was hit by a pepper ball on live television by an officer who appeared to be aiming at her.

"A photographer was shot" (cop), "A reporter was hit" (cop), but "Protesters struck".

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Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API by tick_tock_tick on Thursday July 09, 2020 @06:19PM (#23785916)

I won't disagree that journalists are crap at consistency, sticking to provable facts, and avoiding injecting biased language into reporting.

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Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API by anigbrowl on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:12AM (#23788069)

If that was the problem then you'd expect loaded phrasing to be about equally distributed, but I don't think that's the case.

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