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Chicago teams up with Google, local hackers to improve community policing
Chicago and Google teamed up this past weekend in hopes of creating a safer Chicago.
The city of Chicago in collaboration with Google hosted the Safe Communities Hackathon, an event which sought to have civic hackers and developers create applications that would improve community involvement in neighborhood policing.
There were seven teams, competing in Google’s downtown offices awash in caffeine and free sandwiches.
The city’s Chief Data Officer Brett Goldstein (@ChicagoCDO) was on site.
The city spokesperson said the goal was to attract some of Chicago’s most creative minds to design an app that would help residents communicate issues in their community to their CAPS districts.
Because of that, the police department had dispatched two commanders to weigh in, including Cmdr. Lucy Moy-Barosik, who heads up the department’s Bureau of Patrol.
The police department was able to open up part of their reporting system by way of API. The city’s department of Innovation and Technology listed the available ‘calls’ developers would have access to ahead of the competition.
Of the resources developers would utilize: crimes by location, mugshots, warrants, lists of most wanted, community events calendars and ability to submit reports.
