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I want people who abuse power to be held accountable for it.

I want people who are peacefully protesting to be protected against violence that has often been incited upon them by law enforcement.

If I could make all of the protests peaceful then I would. But I would also amplify their message, if I could.

I know this is all very vague, which is why I solicited ideas for concrete steps.

That's fair. I'm biased to look for an interesting problem to solve but you're probably right that, realistically, money is where I can have the greatest impact.

I have no interest in sowing misinformation to support my beliefs, if that's what you're worried about. Otherwise I still don't really understand your point.

For what it's worth I personally do think that the focus on race is missing the bigger point, which is police brutality and impunity. They've been beating up white people too.

It's an enormous stretch to call delicate speech about my personal convictions "misinformation". Anyway, my only intent is to help people, not add to the conflict. It's just that I believe the police have dropped all pretense of sharing that goal of helping people.

I was trying to be diplomatic. It's my belief that the police have decided to make themselves adversarials of virtually everyone else.

> Your local police department...can help point you to some

Sorry if I wasn't clear, but to put it lightly, I do not plan on asking the police for suggestions.

That said I think the rest of the ideas are valid.

> Data can be a positive tool to keep everyone

I agree, but data solutions are tricky because there's so much misinformation going on right now. It's really easy for data to be fabricated (other than video (kind of)), and even if it's not, people would (rightly) be cautious to trust it. Data validation might be an interesting problem to tackle but I don't know how you solve that with tech.

I saw one for a site aggregating videos of police violence, and then the data one I mentioned. Do you have links to others?