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Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record? Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next.
(www.propublica.org)
this post was submitted on 09 May 2024
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Right, I feel like this should be fairly simple, though I'm notsure. A daily snapshot or something that pulls everything into a database and tracks changes. I'm sure on the admin side they have all of the information, but it needs to be public.
I mean a naive approach is to just run a script that cats the whole page every 10s and compares it against the previous version, and keep all the changes in some kind of git repo.
Then have a website be the resulting merge of all those commits.
Or something.
did none of you actually read the post you're commenting on?
what a silly question, no of course not.
there's a git repo linked right there in the post.
Ironically, there isn't a single question in this entire comment thread before your own.
my friend, the very first sentence from YOU that started this thread ends in a question mark.
That's basically what they did in the article. Maybe ProPublica could make this info public down the line, they obviously have the capability.