About
Public Accountability Chain (PAC) at pac.foundation serves its constituents by
- Searching publicly available databases & info sources of police misconduct
- Standardising the data into the same format (so it can be indexed and searched)
- backs up the full database to IPFS which is a distributed, decentralised storage network - so it is not in a single source of failure (to keep a non-destructible, reconcilable record of the data)
- Provides a sortable, sharable front-end to share this information easily & publicly
- Submits a BEACON timestamp hash to the Unification Mainchain for each new entry added & stamps the intermittent feed regularly to the Unification mainnet (to keep immutable verifiable hash link of the data)
- Provides a public data access API to query the data and puts up a frontend for a non-technical user to be able to search and access the data (to allow full sovereignty of the data)
The next steps for the PAC foundation are to
- Allows citizens to submit new stories and new sources into PAC. New additions will be cross-verified in a staging server before being added to PAC. This will make new source additions such as the government proposed database
- add new sources and APIs
We encourage those interested to review, and contribute to the project technically https://github.com/unification-com/pac.
Current Data Sources
- Police Brutality: https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality
- fatalencounters.org: https://fatalencounters.org
- The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/about-the-counted
- Killed By Police: https://killedbypolice.net
- Mapping Police Violence: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org
- US Police Shootings: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cEGQ3eAFKpFBVq1k2mZIy5mBPxC6nBTJHzuSWtZQSVw
- Washington Post: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings/master/fatal-police-shootings-data.csv