This episode features Samuel Singyangwe, the data scientist and policy analyst who founded Mapping Police Violence, the Police Scorecard and co-founded Campaign Zero to advance data-driven solutions to end police violence in America. Samuel shares with us how he and a team of volunteers are gathering data to illuminate the extent of police violence in America, and the ways that we can utilize this data to make real changes within our communities.
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Problems have solutions. We’re here to learn about them from regular people creating change in their communities using data and technology. Each season of the Civic Hacker Podcast includes audio from the Civic Hacker Summit and news from the Civic Hacker Network.
