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Enable public data by creating adapters for Public Safety Answering Points (911 call centers) #3
Is your technical contribution related to a problem? Please describe.
As we've seen with many high-profile cases, callers to 911 frequently use 911 to harass people of color or falsely portray them as a threat when they are not. 911 has become a tool for race-based harassment, unjustified use of stand your ground claims, and has led to many deaths. Despite this, data on 911 abuse and its impact on policing of black communities and people is hard to come by, largely because of the closed design of Public Safety Answering Points. These PSAPs are essentially 911 call centers. They are governed by technology standards that lead to closed systems. The data are very important to reducing racially abusive 911 calls that threaten people on the basis of race and that have led to many deaths. r It should be possible to open source adapters that write privacy-preserving data on 911 calls to police and their outcomes to public data repositories, for further analysis by academics, advocates, and direct stakeholders. Also provide analytic capabilities to police and review boards on statistical distribution of calls, including identifying problematic callers who pose a heightened risk of inaccurate calls that could place people in danger.
Describe the solution you'd like
Create APIs to make it easy to aggregate data from calls to Public Safety Access Points.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Open records requests - expensive, time-consuming, and hard to scale.
Sampling via surveys. Error prone and isn't able to pinpoint places where the most severe problems arise.
Additional context
I will add more information on technical design of PSAPs and the PSAP standards soon. Others, please join in!
Is your technical contribution related to a problem? Please describe.
As we've seen with many high-profile cases, callers to 911 frequently use 911 to harass people of color or falsely portray them as a threat when they are not. 911 has become a tool for race-based harassment, unjustified use of stand your ground claims, and has led to many deaths. Despite this, data on 911 abuse and its impact on policing of black communities and people is hard to come by, largely because of the closed design of Public Safety Answering Points. These PSAPs are essentially 911 call centers. They are governed by technology standards that lead to closed systems. The data are very important to reducing racially abusive 911 calls that threaten people on the basis of race and that have led to many deaths. r It should be possible to open source adapters that write privacy-preserving data on 911 calls to police and their outcomes to public data repositories, for further analysis by academics, advocates, and direct stakeholders. Also provide analytic capabilities to police and review boards on statistical distribution of calls, including identifying problematic callers who pose a heightened risk of inaccurate calls that could place people in danger.
Describe the solution you'd like Create APIs to make it easy to aggregate data from calls to Public Safety Access Points.
Describe alternatives you've considered Open records requests - expensive, time-consuming, and hard to scale. Sampling via surveys. Error prone and isn't able to pinpoint places where the most severe problems arise. Additional context I will add more information on technical design of PSAPs and the PSAP standards soon. Others, please join in!