Ben Golder

Project Comport

2015, Code for America

In 2015, the Code for America Indianapolis Fellowship partnered with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department to create Project Comport, a service for police departments to publish internal data about use of force and complaint incidents. I was hired to build visualizations of this data for a public website.

Project Comport’s backend supplied a dataset of unique incidents. I used D3 to aggregate use of force and complaint incidents by time, location, type of event, and demographics. I implemented charts without the use of SVG, instead using CSS with HTML tables for accessibility.

Chart of types of force used by IMPD

Chart comparing the racial demographics of Marion County residents and the IMPD

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