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Site tracks public data about police officers in Boston
By adamg on Thu, 08/27/2020 - 10:17am
The Woke Windows Project has collected BPD data that includes information on incident and disciplinary reports, salaries and even traffic citations and keyed them all to specific BPD officers.
Nathan Story and Jacob Lurye, the software engineers running the site, explain the reasoning behind the open-source project:
We collect data from public sources. We combine these data to form inter-linked reports and tables that give every individual the ability to understand policing in their community.
Our focus at this time is on The Boston Police Department, because the activites of our local police have the greatest immediate impact on our lives.
Some of the data, such as reports on incidents to which BPD responds, come from sources that are updated daily. Others, such as reports on "field intelligence observations," however, are only released periodically, for example, after a city councilor subpoenas them.
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Cool
Do they keep track of how many are serial child rapists?
This is great.
We can apply the rules the right wing likes to use. The next time a cop is shot we can look at his record and if he has a bad one it means he deserved to get shot.
It's a start.
Next up, Qualified Immunity.
These are mere Civil Servants who pass an exam and need to be treated as such and not like the chubby blue lines between chaos and order they like to fantasize about who get to swim like Scrooge McDuck in our State's coffers.
Purge the BPD, starting with Bill Barr's pal, William Gross.
Thank you for posting this!
I’ve been trying to find my notes with the name of an officer and a sergeant at Dist 13 in JP who need to be reported for some serious issues a few years ago now that witnesses are more willing to give testimony.
Next up
Transit and MSP
The OT is ridiculous...base
The OT is ridiculous...base salary of one was $72k but yet he made $215k in OT?! Not sure my tax dollars are being well spent.
Plenty of construction details could be done by non-police and probably do a better job of it. I see a lot of sitting in cars, on their phones or talking to the construction crew...basically doing anything but watching traffic and helping pedestrians/bikers.
No, I do not hate the police but yes I do think there is plenty of room for reform.
I Totally Agreed
We really do need to Re-visit the Flagperson✋ vs Police Officer paid detail.
As muchas I am pro Boston Police Community Service Department, I have to agreed with the above observations, these paid detail officers do absolutely nothing for the citizens of Boston. It looks like waste of tax payers dollars.
I believe the City of Boston could save money and or provide city jobs to the employed Boston residents as a Flagpersons.
For what some officers make at paid details , you could probably could hire two to three individuals.
Give the flag person or walkie-talkie to be in contact with their dispatch which is directly in contact with Boston police dispatch. And they are only two observing report.
Some would say put more police officers in the community. Well let's test that. can someone find the statistics of how many paid detail officers made arrests while on details.
Let's test the effectiveness and deterrence of a paid detail officer over a flag person?
It really is shows safety was compromised for safety is compromised. I retract my argument.
The vast majority of
The vast majority of construction details could be done better by...nobody at all.
If other states manage having an open manhole or bucket truck on a quiet residential street with nobody directing traffic, there's no reason why we need a cop, or anyone else. Especially if the cop doesn't do anything and there are no problems as a result.
Eye opening
The officer earnings list is... hard to absorb. I've read articles in the past about officers earning n*(6-figures) annually, but I had no idea how many.
Every incident report I've clicked on has no details beyond date, location, and offense code -- not even the officer's badge number, and nowhere near the number of fields shown in the example report provided. I know this is just what the data sources provide, but I don't know how someone could follow up on any encounter with this (well, I guess at least you get the incident number).
This is a really impressive project.
It's fascinating data
If you want to see data, look at the FIO narrative. I would imagine that the arrest reports have more narrative, but as they are subject to legal proceedings, they are not freely posted. There are FIOs that have interesting stories attached to them.
In theory I don't have an
In theory I don't have an issue with police officers making a significant amount of money. We can't say a job is essential, especially one that comes with certain hazards, and not pay for it.
The problem is that it's become a hustle. Townie guys without significant education, or experience in community or government work, use it as a way to pull in salaries that require WAY more work to get in virtually any other situation.
So now you end up with people with no track record of giving a shit about their community or government pulling in these crazy salaries.
If we were to start a new city from scratch, and decided we needed jobs like city councilors, postal workers, teachers and police - it would be pretty weird to decide that police would get 4x everyone else's salary.