Happy hump day, Baltimore. Hope the transition back after the long weekend hasn't been too difficult.
While HBO's "We Own This City" might've wrapped, the issues of police misconduct it highlighted are still making the news. The Baltimore Banner's Justin Fenton (who authored the eponymous book on which the miniseries was based) today reported that Maryland's Office of the Public Defender, in collaboration with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, is developing a database that compiles complaints against police officers.
The database "pulls in all types of potentially relevant information on officers, such as others they worked with, lawsuits against them, and information from social media," the paywalled article reads. The initiative has gotten pushback from the state's Fraternal Order of Police, whose leader characterized it as based on private personnel info.
But how do you feel about it? If you support it, what information or qualities would such a database need to be fully helpful? If you don't, what tech intervention for police accountability would you support (if any)?
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