police-data-accessibility-project/caasi-help-desk

A repository for housing a community research project about marijuana arrests in Pittsburgh.

Purpose

You should probably just look here: https://github.com/Police-Data-Accessibility-Project

See also

• Roadmap
• Docs

caasi-help-desk's Issues

convert to general data help desk repo

• broaden the scope to make mj-decrim research one folder
• add a readme to explain more broadly
• add a project submission template.md
  • link to markdown syntax
  • feasibility
  • results (pdap_response)

Add notebooks with some specific visualizations

We met with APA 3/1 to discuss which presentation or analysis would be most helpful for them.

Visualizations to make

We can use one notebook as a template and have each student/group submit one for each visualization.

• viz 1 (assignee)
• viz 2 (assignee)
• etc

Requirements

• add the datasets to this repository, with their sources and the date they were collected—currently linked to a personal github repo

Notes from 3/1 meeting

Things we could try:

• overlay with shotspotter data or poverty data or demographic maps from the census to show who is criminalized

• overlay with neighborhood map, or otherwise compare neighborhoods

• look at how often marijuana arr/cit are alone as opposed to with a suite of other offenses

• look at traffic stops which reference marijuana or arrests/citations referencing a traffic stop

• compare the demographics of arrests & citations in each zone or neighborhood

• get intersectional with gender, poverty, etc

• find extremes: if you have these two traits in neighborhood x you're 10x more likely to be criminalized for weed than someone with these two traits in neighborhood y

Stretch:

• compare with other cities (do other cities arrest data have badge numbers or other useful ways to ID patterns?)