We recently relaunched the 20 Year Homicide Report for Blackstonian.org visualizing 20 years of homicide data compiled from Boston Police and Court Records. The report reveals striking patterns and disparities in the number of murders per district and the effectiveness of investigations and prosecutions.
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In the past weeks we have launched 3 new websites which will continue to be developed in collaboration with Blackstonian.com. These websites all focus on tracking police misconduct and instituting reforms to prevent discipline it. MassPoliceReform.org Mass Police Reform works to reform police practices to improve respect for basic human and civil rights, reforms should address concerns about policing, racial discrimination/profiling, diversity, excessive/deadly force and corruption. This site was a complete rebuild and rebrand and is part of a larger local campaign to unify efforts for police reform. ShotByPolice.Blackstonian.org Shot By Police Boston & Beyond seeks to provide as comprehensive as possible a database of people who have been Shot and Killed by Police in Boston and some surrounding communities. This site was a complete rebuild and rebrand completely representing the available data in a format consistent with and inspired by leading data collection projects like “The Counted”. PoliceDecirtification.us Police Decirtification (US) addresses the issue of police decertificaion at a national level. There are currently only 6 States without the authority to revoke a police officer’s license: California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. This site is still under development but seeks to provide a central resource for decertification advocates across the country.
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Sofia Snow is a poet / artist, educator and organizer who we have worked with for years via Voices of Liberation, YGB and more recently Scope Urban Apparel and Grassroots Grind. This project was to create an artist site for her. We utilized wordpress for the CMS and developed a custom theme and graphics. Her logo was designed by Cyrus Brooks. sofiasnow.com
We have been working closely with Blackstonian.com to keep track of all shootings (fatal and non-fatal) that have occured in Boston since the 2013 Boston Marathon. With all the media attention and the outpouring of support for victims of the Boston Marathon Bombings, we wanted to highlight the daily tragedies that are consistently ignored and whose victims receive nothing compared to the millions and millions raised in a matter of weeks for the One Fund. It started with a simple Graphic depicting the number of shootings in the style of a runners number. We have since developed an interactive Google map indicating where each shooting takes place, showing how they are primarily concentrated in the neighborhoods of Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan and the South End / Lower Roxbury. For the most recent count (as of this posting it stands at 85) and map check blackstonian.com.
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This project was a real honor for us. Wise Intelligent of the Legendary Hip-Hop group, Poor Righteous Teachers had us redo his website in preparation for the release of his latest album ‘El Negro Guerrero‘. We worked on rebuilding his site as a self hosted wordpress site with a sliders, a shop, blog, and archives of music and videos. One of the goals with this redesign was to make the site more mobile friendly as it previously was purely flash site. wiseintelligent.com
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