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'We can't trust it': MPD wipes 'key information' from online use-of-force records
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/we-cant-trust-it-mpd-wipes-key-information-from-online-use-of-force-records/The Minneapolis Police Department has changed how much it shares publicly online when collecting use-of-force records.
Co-founders of a group called the Data / Justice Lab, who have been using that data for independent analysis, told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS they were beginning to establish some reportable patterns before changes complicated that work.
“They’re making it as difficult as possible through the guise, the kind of false guise of transparency,” said co-founder and longtime 3rd Precinct neighbor Sam Gould.
“It’s about transparency. It’s about access,” added co-collaborator and Carleton College Assistant Professor of statistics Claire Kelling.