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I would be interested in making a website&app that
would help people list complaints against
officers/public officials without worrying about
whether that officer is going to pull them over or show
up at their front door. I think it would be nice to have
an application for ios/android that
would allow people
to report incidents of police corruption and tag specific
officers anonymously.
Like a lot of other user submitted platforms (youtube
etc) there will have to be quality control. The status of
the complaint would have to be automatically verified
or by a site admin.
Like a teacher report/rating system people add who
they want to report, and overlay that on top of existing
available information.
IE: my precinct is the 3rd district there is public record
of XXX officer. All it would take would be to pull up
this information into a database and then allow people
in a wiki format to approve/deny false allegations for
quality control.
Ideally it would be something like this:
A memphis, tn resident wrote: I was beaten by officer
____ (or unknown name with physical description or
video) and not charged, but my belongings were
stolen. It was at ____ at 10:00AM.
-insert video/photo/document attachment
The same would be applicable to any government
employee suspected of corruption that a user would
like to submit within limits.
I don't have a catchy name "REPORT CORRUPTION
ANONYMOUSLY" "COPSTOP" are the dumbest names
that come to mind.
Also, seeing as everyone has a social media account I
figure people could add information about the people
by finding their social pages. I think the lack of
government oversite for corruption in this country is
despicable.
It would be cool to have it internationally but that
would be rather expensive depending on how
complicated the website would be. I think it could be a
great service to society.
twit twoo
http://www.cnn.com/...bbins-nypd-twitter/
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 03 2014]
little-brother
http://www.ted.com/...st_dangerous_places
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 03 2014]
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The problem is that the level of detail required to make a
report would (likely) be sufficient for the officer in
question to identify the individual making the report. |
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This might work if it was administered by a 3rd party that
kept the record secret and only posted "this officer has a
credible complaint of excessive force" logged against
them, where credible is defined as "on duty and in the
area" or something along those lines, but even there the
records are going to be vulnerable to search warrants,
which police don't typically have much trouble getting. |
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Funny news story recently about the New York city police department setting up a twitter account asking the citizens to send in video clips of their police in action to boost public trust in their local constabulary.
(heh, never thought I'd get the chance to use the word constabulary)
It failed spectacularly with the massive overload of police brutality videos. [link] |
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There is also a very recent TED talk about an organisation equipping people with hidden video cameras to anonymously record human rights violations in very corrupt areas of the world.
It seems that just knowing they might be filmed drastically alters the blatant asshole-ism of would-be haters. [link] 2 |
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I agree that a third party would have to confirm
from both parties via a double blind. |
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I imagine that the easiest way to do it would be.
Submit a claim! and then a third party verifies
information and can either deny or list as
unsubstantiated. |
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I think there is serious interest in a program like this
being established because people are tired of feeling
like the enemies. Oh no... I have a .... |
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If a democracy constitutes the people in power I
don't think that we should have to be scrutinized as
threats. I was thinking earlier that at what point did
our rights switch over from the government being an
agency to help the people. Today it seems like the
government is it's own entity entirely separate for
the people and all we do is watch campaign ads and
shuffle money all over the place. |
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When did the citizens of the united states become
the servants of the government? My government is
supposed to work for me not against me. At what
point did america adopt a government run by money
at the expense of it's citizens... |
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So quality control and anonymity would have to be
essential. |
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I think it would be only fair to the officer in question
to be contacted and offer a chance to defend
himself. All he would be told is that a complaint has
been filed anonymously concerning an incident.
Then the complaint would have whatever
information the site had for him to see. |
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I don't want the police to feel like this is a tool
against them, in fact having the ability to add
context to a video may be very useful for ending any
dispute. |
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I do want the corrupt officers and government
officials to know that they will be accountable for
their actions and their victims will no longer remain
silent in the shadows. Still in the shadows, but
speaking out. |
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//corrupt officers...to know that they will be accountable ... |
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Most certainly, if I might mention my humble contribution, the "looking the other way" money is paypal'd and the app shows earnings per officer, can't get more accountable than that. |
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