Policing the Police with Scraped Data – Started on Reddit/HN
This is a guide for using the Police Data Access Point and associated tools, and contributing data or code.
Policing the Police with Scraped Data – Started on Reddit/HN launched on June 7, 2021 with 11 votes, #1,301 of 3,650 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
In plain words
Policing the Police with Scraped Data is a project that aggregates and analyzes publicly available police records and data. It serves researchers, journalists, and citizens interested in examining law enforcement patterns and accountability. The project compiles information from various sources to make police data more accessible and searchable, helping users identify trends and inconsistencies in policing practices across different jurisdictions.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
This is a guide for using the Police Data Access Point and associated tools, and contributing data or code. We're cataloguing sources of data in a database at https://pdap.io so people can find information about local police systems. The quickest way to contribute is by labeling (annotating) new Data Sources. Head to https://pdap.io/annotate to get started. To support us financially, you can donate here . We're a non-profit, so your donations may be tax-deductible. Our github organization contains our code repositories. We have a handful of apps working in conjunction to identify, collect, document, archive, and share sources of data. The Data Sources App repo is the back end for our Data…from docs.pdap.io
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