Open Weihua4455 opened 1 year ago
I talked to Rachel today, who answered most of my questions. See notes here.
However, during fact-checking, Rachel flagged another issue: In the CJ-related spendings, there are a lot of cases where police spending is wrapped with other things. I.e. Cleveland is spending more than $109 million on salaries, but Rachel found out that only half of those went to the police.
I think there was a discussion on how we need to take some of those numbers out of the total, which, I assume, is why we have the $96 million as the total, not $151 million that I got. That said, I don't see documentations about this, and can't really include the analysis in the review. We can either use the $151 million number and say "no more than," or document which projects we're taking out of the totals.
Hi hi,
I just finished reviewed the scripts. The code makes sense, however, I have some questions about how we compiled in-direct funds that local government received from the state.
Here's Ana's readme/instruction for this part:
From Rachel's source documentation in the hand-compiled Google Sheet, here're a couple of tabs that I understand are CJ-related and need to be included in the analysis, and I have a few questions about those:
First, some overarching questions about the analysis:
Question: There are multiple sheets in the Google Sheet (Ohio_CC_ARPA_Wellness, Ohio_CC_ARPA_ViolentCrimeReduction, Ohio_ACC_ARPA_BodyCam, Ohio_CC_Courts), why did we choose to only export the crime (which I assume is Ohio_CC_ARPA_ViolentCrimeReduction) and court tabs?
Question: In the story, we said
About a third of Cuyahoga County’s ARPA money – $66 million – was divided up between county council districts to be used as “community grants.”
. But I don't see any scripts that pulls in or analyzes that data. Where are we doing that?Tab
Ohio_CC_ARPA_Wellness
Tab
Ohio_CC_ARPA_ViolentCrimeReduction
Tab
Ohio_ACC_ARPA_BodyCam
Tab
Ohio_CC_Courts