The City Won’t Release Police Discipline Data, So We Did It For Them
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Show Notes
Disciplinary action against Pittsburgh police officers has doubled over the last 10 years, but community activists and experts wonder whether an uptick in internal investigations represents a problem or a solution. The detailed data dump is unprecedented in Pittsburgh, and City Cast’s Megan Harris is here with Rich Lord of PublicSource to talk about what the more than 5,600 allegations really mean for us moving forward.
It’s all written up for PublicSource here: https://www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-police-accountability-discipline-data-jim-rogers-ed-gainey/#
You can check out the raw data for yourself here: https://www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-police-accountability-discipline-data-jim-rogers-ed-gainey/#data
1Hood Media collaborated with the Alliance for Police Accountability on a report last year considering a different approach to public safety. It's available here: https://www.1hood.org/publicsafety
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