New Consent Decree Website

A new website utilizing the data the Tulsa Police Department collects as required by the Consent Decree has appeared. Titled "Consent Decree Database," it is by all appearances a truly accurate collection of the data we collect and provide to the public.

I would like to thank the anonymous person or persons who built the website. The data has been arranged in an excellent fashion and it is clear that the creators of the site are fully aware of the difficulty in analyzing such data as it pertains to policing.

The raw data we collect is available for the public and posted on our public website. We added the following statement on that page:

"According to the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) there is no agreement among academics of how much disparity is acceptable. There is no single preferred benchmark for analysis of collected data and, according to PERF, no perfect method for analysis. PERF goes on to state that the existence of disparity does not equal the existence of bias."

TPDD.ORG collected this raw data for their website and I am glad they did. They also left the analysis to you, the public. The context in which it is provided is "right on."

Please visit the website at: www.tpdd.org

The Tulsa Police public website is: www.tulsapolice.org

You may access the raw Consent Decree data on the "Public Education" page.

Off. Will Dalsing

Comments

[Michelle]

I have to disagree, I don't think it's a good idea. And I really don't like how easily they have made the officer information (specifially, name and location of work) so accessible. I see no benefit for the public to have direct access to an individual officers statistics. The summary offered through TPD's website is a much better reflection of what department wide stats are.

Also, their use of the badge and patch on the website would cause the average person to assume it is a TPD affiliated website. Those are copywrited materials, did the "annonymous" creator get permission to use them, as well as the data off TPD's website? I'm sure someone did this with a good heart, but not everyone who looks at that website will have the same attitude.