The Wandering Officer: New Databases and Police Accountability

From the Anti Police-Terror Project: Modern law enforcement in the US have long been shielded from transparency and accountability when they abuse their powers to terrorize or kill the people they're sworn to protect. When California passed and strengthened the 2018 “Right to Know Act”, journalists and data scientists came together to provide the public the right to see records from nearly 700 law enforcement agencies from city police and county sheriffs to California highway patrol and district attorneys--stripping away decades of secrecy surrounding serious uses of force, officer-involved shootings, and law enforcement misconduct.

Find out more about the Police Records Access Project, what the new statewide database of police misconduct and use-of-force records contains, and how it’s related to a new law creating the possibility to decertify officers with histories of abuse.

Guest Speakers include:

• Uncle Bobby X: activist and community organizer, and advisory member of the POST Accountability Advisory Board that makes decertification recommendations

• Jack Glaser: UC Berkeley professor of Public Policy and advisory member of the POST Accountability Advisory Board

• Cat Brooks: activist, community organizer, artist and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project

• Amanda Majail-Blanco: student, youth organizer, and family liaision of Alternatives in Action supporting systems' impacted families in Oakland and the Bay Area

Sponsoring organizations:

• Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP)

• Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG)

• Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)

• Community Law Enforcement Accountability Network (CLEAN)

• National Police Index (NPI)

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