Author: James Nelson
Publisher: Medium
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: The following article delves into the divide between law enforcement and the communities that they are entrusted with protecting, and suggests that data science is a possible solution to bridge that gap. Kaggle ran a “Data Science of Good: Center for Policing Equity” competition in which data scientists competed for a prize for the best exploration of the data provided on policing. Shivam Banal won first place. The three main components to his solution were data integration and standardization, department level processing, and analysis of framework.