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Advancing the Police Data InitiativePeter Moore
About Me
Data Analyst at Socrata
Peter Moore
“Data! Data! Data!” he cried impatiently. “I can't make bricks without clay.”
The Police Data Initiative
Task Force on 21st Century Policing
The Police Data Initiative2014 White House Initiative:
Open Data and Policing (External)Use open data to increase transparency, build community trust, and support innovation.
• Departments share disaggregated data about police-citizen interactions with the public in machine-readable formats
• Identify and disseminate best practices through a community of practice
Internal Accountability (Internal)Better use data and technology to improve early warning systems, internal accountability, and decrease inappropriate uses of force
• Departments work alongside, and share data (primarily through data-sharing agreements) with, researchers and data scientists for analysis
• Develop, share, and adopt best practices around IT system procurement, and internal accountability systems
Map of Police Data Initiative Partners source: Police Foundation
The Challenge:Collect and automatically update police
data into a combined Open Data portal
Police Foundation – Socrata Partnership
Police Foundation• Policing policy
research and services• Subject matter
experts• A lead organization in
the police data initiative
• Open Data Solution• Technical help and
consulting• Data integration
Socrata
Open Data
• NOT data published in PDFs or locked behind online maps or other data visualizations
• NOT data only about crimes, but rather data about the activity of policing, and interactions with citizens
Source: Police Foundation
Getting the Data
Or, how useful the python creator is.
Python
Steps:1. Create the Socrata APIQuery to pull a maximum of50,000 rows that were updated 2 days ago.2. Pull the csv3. Output the individual rows
Our (sample) Workflow
Automation: Enter FME Server
Data Movement!
Lessons Learned• Not so uniform data• Open Data is just the start• PythonCreator (and caller) don’t
automatically create attribute names• FME Server is very useful for
scheduling jobs
Next Steps
Greater integration with source systems (e.g. IAPRO)
Greater awareness
More standardization
Thank you!Peter [email protected]
Get the data:http://publicsafetydataportal.org/https://data.policefoundation.org/browse& Check with your local Police Department
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