“Instead of always thinking that we need to make an app to 'solve' some problem, there are often really strong existing community processes. Wherever community is targeted by oppression, there are often strategies of resistance. The question is how a design can amplify some of those powerful existing projects, or frameworks, or approaches that are coming out of community organizing models.”
— Sasha Costanza-Chock, via NiemanLab

Below, a visualization of use of force complaints against NYPD officers to the Civilian Complaint Review Board in 2016, via:

Flashlight as club: 6

Gun fired: 10

Gun as club: 12

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