PUBLIC DATA WORKS

Public Data Works is an engineering and design studio. We build tools that help make data useful to the public... The Citizens Police Data Project (CPDP.co) is a tool for holding police accountable to the public they serve.Citizens Police Data Project (CPDP) takes records of police interactions with the public - records that would otherwise be buried in internal databases - and opens them up to make the data useful to the public, creating a permanent record for every CPD police officer.Originally intended to serve as a national model for transparency, the Citizens Police Data Project emerged from a decade-long collaboration with the University of Chicago Law School's Mandel Legal Aid Clinic and the Invisible Institute. CPDP is now the hub of several inter-woven projects and partnerships that share the common goal of making police data more useful to the public through transparency, investigation, and accountability.We designed CPDP with a focus on making data both accessible and..