Government Essays
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On “Officer Support System” Software in Chicago
The CPD clearly lacked was a desire or capacity to be held accountable to the people they serve. But what I saw was a move to spend more money on an early warning system, I vigorously opposed it in task force meetings.
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Visual Index of Statewide Stay At Home Order PDFs
All states implemented “Stay At Home” orders during the global pandemic. This is a visual index showing the paper that drives policy.
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Bulk Downloads of FCC Comments on FCC Filing 14-28, Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet
tl; dr: below is a bulk download of all Net Neutrality comments published to the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System as single file, along with the complete text of those comments. There are 475,280 comments available as of August 4, 2014. More comments are being published and will be available here as time goes by.
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On Parsing Restaurant Inspection Violations (Subtitled: Goddess and the Grocer on Elston Had a Bad Day Last Week)
This morning I was reviewing a saved view on the City of Chicago data portal for restaurant inspections conducted by the Chicago Department of Public Health based on a suspected food poisoning. I used a feature of Socrata, the software used in the portal, that The Local Inspector Value-Entry Specification (LIVES) is an effort by Yelp, Code for…
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Tracking Eater Chicago’s “24 of Chicago’s Most Anticipated Fall Openings”
I saw this post on Eater today: 24 of Chicago’s Most Anticipated Fall Openings. As is usual with Eater, it was an amazingly well-researched post, with tons of detail and specifics about who’s doing what where. The actual dates of restaurant openings are a notoriously inexact science. There are lots of movable parts to opening a new…