Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct

washingtonpost.com

44 points·miles··7 comments

They obviously were never going to effectively document themselves... Much better that we do it ourselves, we already have a fairly good system in Utah and it's open to submissions from other states:

https://app.copdb.org

I hate hate hate to suggest it, but maybe maybe maybe governments should post their data to some kind of a blockchain the future.

So petty loser censorial fascist pieces of shit don't get to delete history like this.

You can simply put it on a web site (and maybe sign it) so that everybody can mirror and archive the data.

The blockchain is irrelevant here.

Propublica would make a good home for such a database.

> I hate hate hate to suggest it, but maybe maybe maybe governments should post their data to some kind of a blockchain the future.

Except that not all government data should be public. Maybe this database should have been (but it was not), but "making things public" is not a general solution.

> So petty loser censorial fascist pieces of shit don't get to delete history like this.

I don't think this "deletes history." It looks like this was just a compilation of existing records.

FBI crime statistics that certain groups of people like to post as evidence are all voluntary data some police departments give themselves. A full database of data that isn't voluntary about the police doing the reporting was an invaluable start.

> blockchain

part of the reason they've chosen this strategy is because the tools we have are laughably inadequate to protect democracy. please don't give them more fuel.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com