I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police by scraping court data

Re:I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police b... by KennyBlanken on Monday September 19, 2022 @07:01PM (#32905336)

Are you also working on pushing standards for data sources, such as a state-level standard? Ideally federal standards?

Maintaining thousands of scrapers for different formats seems like a nightmare, and it won't take long for departments to learn they can slightly tweak the format of their reporting to cause extra work for you.

On the plus side, working with all this data probably makes you all very qualified to advise on developing standards.

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Re:I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police b... by josh-pdap on Monday September 19, 2022 @10:32PM (#32906987)

We definitely want scrapers to be maintained as-needed, as opposed to trying to spin all the plates. It’d be thousands of thousands.

Measures for Justice is working on developing standards: https://measuresforjustice.org/

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