Name: How the U.S Is Using Big Data to Innovate Policing .mov
Uploaded: 2016-01-12
Duration: 4 min 2 s

[ MUSIC ] You face a lot of challenges in policing, especially in large cities. You're working with a lot of folks to try to change that. What's going on? It's databased, right? Sure. So using a lot of data science, we have the US Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil who came from LinkedIn into the CTO's office. We're embedded at the Office of Science Technology policy and what we're trying to do is advise the president and his team how to use data innovation and technology for the American people. In this case in policing, we have a lot of really innovative jurisdictions But they're not maybe known to other jurisdictions. So for example, the Dallas Police Chief, L. A ., lots of great release of open data. Use of force data, officer involved shooting, all this data. Really opening up their data to make that available to the community, for the techie community and others to starts work. We just here at CES, we had the CTO of Seattle. The libraries are actually making these data tools available to citizens to be able to look at and help and iterate. That helps with transparency and helps with understanding where the real problems are. Another thing in the police data initiative was to look at what the community, what the Chiefs are using for themselves and their enterprise system. So we had the Camden, New Jersey team making tremendous initiative there. Great strides. Has half their murder rate just by using data better about what's happening with our police force and what's happening in the community. And you see your role as kind of bridging that gap right? You want them to realize that there's more data, more lessons out there. Yeah and also There's innovators already doing great things. So how can we help others who wanna solve the problems but might not know, as sometimes we nickname it, the art of the possible? Somebody can come and give a lightning talk. In this case, the police chiefs were doing it in the White House. Other chiefs heard them, said, oh, I could do that. Teach me more. How did you do that? One of the groups in the Carolinas and a couple of others worked with the University of Chicago data science team. On a bunch of different projects just to advance the field. So it's sort of pilot work that we could do as well as cross- sharing of best practices but in a very tangible way. So Police Data Initiative already has 26 cities working together where the chiefs, the people are talking to each other what they're already doing. And it has these two threads. Opening the data, engaging the community, what are the best practices for doing that, and then this other side of how are we using data to manage our force and our criminal justice system. Can you take that local data and actually So actually make use of it in another town. Is that something that has benefits? Sometimes it's more of the systems that their using, so they're like how are you doing that, what's your method, what are your tools, and how could we purse that, what other tools that are out there? The other one that we've been looking at of course is there's a real challenge that a lot of mental health issues in the country, a lot of substance abuse issues are being handled through the criminal justice system. And it's not working well. So WHO's already worked through that and we've found that Miami team has done incredible work. One of the things they did was they trained their police force, their 911 operators, a bunch of schools, a bunch of other folks, around how to handle a call that sounded more like a mental illness or substance, other kind of issue that wasn't necessary A crime in a more traditional way and so one of the data points that came out of that across four years, 50, 000 inbound calls resulted in only 109 arrests. Wow. And they were able actually to close on of their jails Said, they're triaging the people and having them go through a different system and get care. And they have much less recidivism. And so really, what's working? And we have innovators, we have incredible Americans all over this country, people all over the world who have solutions. So, how can we kind of scout them and make them available, use the Internet and other kinds of systems. You know, as a convening power of the White House to bring together great innovators with people who have real problems to talk together about what they might try. How can we scale that? Yeah. And so that's what we're working on. [ MUSIC ]