June 25, 2015 at 18:14Open law enforcement data - statistics and data for each crime
When we talk about open data, those that are published not for proforma, not for some public relations of the state, but about those that are “real”, which relate to the quality of life of each of us, which relate to the environment - human, infrastructural and household, then it comes to several important areas of openness of the state.
These are such areas as:
Almost all of these data sets are described in the G8 Open Data Charter, and all of them are considered the most important and priority for citizens.
Let us dwell on law enforcement data.
Their peculiarity is such that in different countries the implementation of law enforcement functions is carried out differently. If in Russia or in Great Britain the police are a single structure of vertical subordination, then in the USA there are many police departments at the level of individual states and individual counties.
If in some countries there are separate agencies for the analysis of criminal statistics, in others this is all part of the functions of police departments and prosecutors.
In the United States, Barack Obama recently created a special initiativePolice Data Initiative is just to improve the quality of openness of police departments.
This is a difficult and interesting story, given the difficulties described above with how the "power vertical" in the United States is organized.
How disclosure is happening right now in the United States can be seen in the special Police Open Data Census project made by the Sunlight Foundation. Here is a catalog of US police departments.
Moreover, in the world there are many services that use data in practice. Portals such as SpotCrime and Crimereports aggregate a lot of data about each crime. And real estate companies use criminal statistics to measure the attractiveness of real estate.
In other countries, there are initiatives to open law enforcement. They are in Russia, although not yet on such a scale. The Crimestat.ru portal can be considered as the first swallow, but it also needs serious development.
At the Open Data Council, on behalf of Infoculture we will discuss the development of this topic, talk with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor's Office and other law enforcement agencies about what their data and in what form should be available.
To make this possible, it is very important for us to find out who will use this data and how. And maybe someone is already using something close to them.
Therefore, I ask everyone to follow the link and fill out the “Open Enforcement Data” mini-survey .
The results of this survey will go to the Open Data Council and will be passed on to the authorities responsible for publishing criminal statistics.
And I will also be grateful to all the substantive suggestions and comments that you can leave both in the survey and this post.
These are such areas as:
- environmental data: air quality, soil condition, water quality, food inspection results, foci of disease, polluting noise and much more.
- data on the quality of education (average USE scores for schools), average salaries of university graduates, and much more;
- health institution performance data. Percentage of successful heart surgeries, municipal statistics on types of illness, data on causes of death, and much more
- data on the activities of law enforcement agencies. These are statistics with details to the unit and depersonalized information for each crime
Almost all of these data sets are described in the G8 Open Data Charter, and all of them are considered the most important and priority for citizens.
Let us dwell on law enforcement data.
Their peculiarity is such that in different countries the implementation of law enforcement functions is carried out differently. If in Russia or in Great Britain the police are a single structure of vertical subordination, then in the USA there are many police departments at the level of individual states and individual counties.
If in some countries there are separate agencies for the analysis of criminal statistics, in others this is all part of the functions of police departments and prosecutors.
In the United States, Barack Obama recently created a special initiativePolice Data Initiative is just to improve the quality of openness of police departments.
This is a difficult and interesting story, given the difficulties described above with how the "power vertical" in the United States is organized.
How disclosure is happening right now in the United States can be seen in the special Police Open Data Census project made by the Sunlight Foundation. Here is a catalog of US police departments.
Moreover, in the world there are many services that use data in practice. Portals such as SpotCrime and Crimereports aggregate a lot of data about each crime. And real estate companies use criminal statistics to measure the attractiveness of real estate.
In other countries, there are initiatives to open law enforcement. They are in Russia, although not yet on such a scale. The Crimestat.ru portal can be considered as the first swallow, but it also needs serious development.
At the Open Data Council, on behalf of Infoculture we will discuss the development of this topic, talk with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor's Office and other law enforcement agencies about what their data and in what form should be available.
To make this possible, it is very important for us to find out who will use this data and how. And maybe someone is already using something close to them.
Therefore, I ask everyone to follow the link and fill out the “Open Enforcement Data” mini-survey .
The results of this survey will go to the Open Data Council and will be passed on to the authorities responsible for publishing criminal statistics.
And I will also be grateful to all the substantive suggestions and comments that you can leave both in the survey and this post.