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We are a collective of tech minded folks building digital tools to combat fascism and oppression ✊🖥️🏴 Interested in contributing? DM us!

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After months of hard work, Seattl Tech Bloc is proud to bring you spd.watch This tool aggregates Public Data Requests and crowd-sourced photos to bring you information we have been able to gather on SPD officers. #SeattleProtests #ProtestCommsSeattle
Screenshot of the officer detail page on OpenOversight of Dag Aakervik. Photo of Aakervik appears on the left. General information section appears on the right, including name, department, race, gender, birth year, first employment date, number of known incidents, and currently on the force status. Below that are sections for assignment history and salary.

ALT Screenshot of the officer detail page on OpenOversight of Dag Aakervik. Photo of Aakervik appears on the left. General information section appears on the right, including name, department, race, gender, birth year, first employment date, number of known incidents, and currently on the force status. Below that are sections for assignment history and salary.

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Okay, we should finally be stable!
TechBlocSEA (@TechBlocSEA) profile pictureTechBlocSEA@TechBlocSEA19 Nov 2022
Well, it looks like we had a disk fail already🫠This might be down for a bit, we'll retweet again once it's stable!
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Well, it looks like we had a disk fail already🫠This might be down for a bit, we'll retweet again once it's stable!
TechBlocSEA (@TechBlocSEA) profile pictureTechBlocSEA@TechBlocSEA18 Nov 2022
Oops, seems like Twitter is imploding 😶 Fear not, we've just finished setting up a Mastodon instance! DM us to get in - we're only allowing approved accounts for the time being. See you on the federated toot machines: mastadon.tech-bloc-sea.dev (yes that typo is intentional)
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Oops, seems like Twitter is imploding 😶 Fear not, we've just finished setting up a Mastodon instance! DM us to get in - we're only allowing approved accounts for the time being. See you on the federated toot machines: mastadon.tech-bloc-sea.dev (yes that typo is intentional)
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We are also going to work to make sure the lovely bots we manage (namely xitter.gq/watching_spd) also make it over to Mastodon
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New update to spd.watch - images can now be clicked on to see their full size (and the cropped section for the officer in question). Clicking on the image will also load a higher quality version if available. Try it out!
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It's been a minute, but we're here with an update! We pushed out some changes to spd.watch which will now let you search for officers by first name, and search only officers who currently have the rank/unit you're searching for. Try it out! #Seattleprotests
Screenshot of the "browse" page of OpenOversight. The "First Name" form section is highlighted, along with the "currently employed" checkbox.

ALT Screenshot of the "browse" page of OpenOversight. The "First Name" form section is highlighted, along with the "currently employed" checkbox.

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Amidst all the BS today, our encrypted radio tracker just got 5x bigger, so we'll have even more info on who's talking when (even if we can't hear what they're saying). If you want pics where we have them, use the badge # to search here: spd.watch/department/1 #SeattleProtests
👀 on SPD encrypted (@watching_spd) profile picture👀 on SPD encrypted@watching_spd25 Jun 2022
Replying to @watching_spd
49 second encrypted call at 07:07:31 PM (#5290: Kraus, Brian J; #7736: Coma, James R.; #5966: Dornay, Zsolt F_Jr; #7685: Marshall, Aaron E; #8601: Nguyen, Mia K) #SeattleEncryptedComms
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TechBlocSEA retweeted
DivestSPD (@DivestSPD) profile picture
DivestSPD
@DivestSPD23 Jun 2022
Today marks two years since we started this account in the middle of the 2020 uprising. Since then, we’ve done more than 100 officer profiles, nearly 150 public records request, dozens of threads, and worked with @TechBlocSEA to make a searchable database of police misconduct
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OpenOversight v1.3.1 released - Unit and Rank fields now have text search! Rather than scrolling miles and miles through the list, you can now start typing and the list will filter down to what's available. Try it out yourself! spd.watch #SeattleProtests
Screenshot of OpenOversight. The Unit dropdown is showing, with a list of available options that include the letters "pat" in that order.

ALT Screenshot of OpenOversight. The Unit dropdown is showing, with a list of available options that include the letters "pat" in that order.

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Tired of refreshing the OPA site for case updates? Today we've released a new tool to track open datasets published by SPD & OPA! This tool tracks newly opened and closed OPA investigations, as well as new closed case summary documents. #SeattleProtests spd-data-watch.tech-bloc-sea…
Screenshot of SPD Data Watch. Image shows a table of updates with Case Number, Type, and Time of update.

ALT Screenshot of SPD Data Watch. Image shows a table of updates with Case Number, Type, and Time of update.

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You can also follow along from your favorite RSS reader by subscribing to this atom feed: spd-data-watch.tech-bloc-sea…
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Want to help out? Contributions and improvements are welcome! Find the code here: github.com/OrcaCollective/sp…
GitHub - OrcaCollective/spd-data-watch

GitHub - OrcaCollective/spd-data-watch

Contribute to OrcaCollective/spd-data-watch development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com
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It's been a minute! Life has been tough for us, but we're trying to carry on where we can. We've just released an update to spd.watch - you should now be able to search for incidents! Try it under "Browse" -> "Incidents": openoversight.tech-bloc-sea.… #SeattleProtests
Screenshot of the new Incidents search page on OpenOversight. Example cases are on the right, with an incidents form on the left with fields "report number", "occurred before", and "occurred after".

ALT Screenshot of the new Incidents search page on OpenOversight. Example cases are on the right, with an incidents form on the left with fields "report number", "occurred before", and "occurred after".

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• Seattle's sweeping • Tech Bloc creates a Facebook of SPD's cops • RIP Meatloaf More morning news on Slog: thestranger.com/slog/2022/01…
Slog AM: Surprise Sweeps, Meatloaf Dies, and How to Survive the Plague When the Government All But...

Slog AM: Surprise Sweeps, Meatloaf Dies, and How to Survive the Plague When the Government All But...

From Ballard Commons, a sweep that had much more forethought HK“Surprise” sweeps: Stop The Sweeps provides sweep support nearly every time this city decides to...

thestranger.com
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This work is based off previous projects from @lucyparsonslabs and @OpenOversight, and we're incredibly grateful for their work. This would not be possible without them, and the community members who helped obtain and process this data.
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Try it out now! spd.watch
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