API Notifications and Updates for Integrators

[yo-mike]

Are you currently integrating with 2020PB data? Subscribe to this issue to be notified when the official data feed receives new features, new data feeds become available, or ancillary APIs are updated.

JSON-V2 / CSV / MD API to build your own front end

• Version 1.0 stable

RESTful API that includes geolocation data

• Version 1.0 stable - add /incidents endpoint with geocoding and direct video mp4 links from attributed sources
• 1.1 (2020-06-09) - add /legislators endpoint with contact information for House and Senate members
• 1.2 (2020-06-09) - add ?filer[field]=value capabilities for all end points

REST API that points to backed-up video files

• Version 1.0 stable

[hossain-khan]

Subscribed to it 👍 . Quick question about the RESTful API, is it maintained by the same 2020PB community? or it's individual effort to provide convenient API for the same data set?

EDIT: Sorry, I just noticed that @949mac is the owner of the RESTful API repository 😊. I also posted some questions on that repo.

[yo-mike]

@amardeshbd, My API pulls directly from the data feed that @ubershmekel wrote. I'm actively involved with the team here :) And will continue to support them and you.

Happy coding!

[nickatnight]

What a champ @949mac hell ya

[jlev]

I've also set up a site to map and provide more local context and actions for readers (mayor and chief of police phone numbers, military equipment transferred under 1033). It's using the API from @nickatnight, but I can switch to using GitHub hosted json directly if that's preferable. Gatsby is pretty flexible...

https://policebrutality.media/

[yo-mike]

@jlev - Thanks for integrating! Your project looks great. Can you show me an example of the 1033 transfer? That sounds interesting.

[jlev]

The 1033 program is where local police departments get surplus military equipment from the Defense Logistics Agency. They issue quarterly reports at https://www.dla.mil/DispositionServices/Offers/Reutilization/LawEnforcement/PublicInformation/ in a huge excel file.

Marshall Project has scripts to clean the file and all the quarterly reports archived from 2014-2020
https://github.com/themarshallproject/dod1033

@dannguyen is doing a bunch of work to clean that up and export to CSV by state and agency.
https://github.com/dannguyen/dod-leso-1033-data

[ubershmekel]

The v2 data json is live at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/2020PB/police-brutality/data_build/all-locations-v2.json

New things are:

• tags
• description
• text describing each link

Gonna update a few of the links soon, and update the readme

[hossain-khan]

This is incredible as to how all the incident now has description! Amazing work by the community! 🙏

Here is a visual diff of schema change for v2

@949mac do you have any plan to integrate this into the existing 846-backend? I think this also needs to be versioned because of the link description.

[nickatnight]

@ubershmekel wow nice chief! Can't wait to integrate this into my api