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Re: I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police by scraping court data

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On their github [0] I found https://app.pdap.io but it is not loading for me. [0] - https://github.com/Police-Data-Accessibility-Project/PDAP-Da...

This was an early experiment, we don't have a published app right now.

Re: I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police by scraping court data

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The post you quoted lists potential avenues for using web3 tools . You may notice we have not gone down any of those avenues. We aren't doing crypto stuff. We did indeed spend some time looking into web3 and peer-to-peer, and ultimately decided it's not for us. Most of the energy there is spent trying to make money / scam people. Peer-to-peer is cool too but has its own risks. Thanks for checking out the discord, tho…

Yeah, I'm glad you went this route.

It's one thing if you want to have a crypto wallet to accept donations -- that's not that controversial. It's another to drink the web3 kool-aid and base your organization's future on that.

Re: I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police by scraping court data

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Is their any data sources we could scrape to stop crimes in our neighborhoods so the police don't have any reason to come around and cause problems?

You could scrape improved social safety nets, better access to birth control, and taxing the rich to pay for it.

Re: I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police by scraping court data

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Floating the idea of having a DAO governance system =/= "crypto grift." It's a legitimate way of trying to ensure that control of a distributed system remains distributed. It doesn't even sound like they've pursued the idea. You can, in theory, have a non-profit DAO.

Recently there has been an unreasonable amount of hostility towards anything that even mentions crypto or any related technology. I wonder what the source of it is.

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