Demond Fortenberry and City of New Orleans CIO Lamar Gardere review police
data together with other hackathon participants.
Last week, at a coding event in New Orleans, 14-year-old Demond Fortenberry
blew me away with his data-savvy and curiosity.
At the event, hosted by local nonprofit Operation Spark, the City of New
Orleans previewed four policing-related data sets. As the password for viewing
the data came up on the screen, I reflexively cracked open my laptop to dive in but fortunately, I had the good sense to close it back up. This time, I
wanted to experience the unveiling of a new data set from the perspective of a
young coder.
Demond Fortenberry and his sister, Dia, work on an app to display New
Orleans Police Department data. (Photos by John Fraboni/Operation Spark and
Summer Suleiman/Idea Village)
I was a little nervous at first about whether this never-before-seen data
would catch the attention of Demond and the other young coders. But watching
Demond work with the data -- and build a collaborative working relationship with
city leadership in the process -- removed any of those fears.
From incident locations to readouts on the demographics, he recognized what
was happening in his community, and he started to ask questions.
Read the full story here, and pass it on -- and then find out how you can get involved.
Demond Fortenberry and his sister, Dia, work on an app to display New
Orleans Police Department data. (Photos by John Fraboni/Operation Spark and
Summer Suleiman/Idea Village)
Because of the initiative, we're seeing a lot of innovative ideas across the
country just like last week's coding event. The Seattle Police Department
recently hosted a workshop for law enforcement agencies and technologists on
balancing privacy and transparency in body camera data. And the Dallas Police
Department posted 12 years of data on officer-involved shootings in a
machine-readable format so anyone can analyze and visualize the data.
By bringing community members and leaders together with top technologists,
researchers, data scientists, and design experts, the Police Data Initiative is
accelerating progress around data transparency and analysis a critical step
toward the ultimate goal of building trust between police and the communities
that they protect and serve.
Learn more about last week's event in New Orleans, as well as the Police Data Initiative, and see how you can get involved.
Thanks,
Denice
Denice W. Ross
Presidential Innovation Fellow
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