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Steve Neavling - Detroit Metro Times - 18 September, 2024

Tarak Shah is quoted with regard to the National Police Index: “Police often avoid accountability by moving to another agency rather than face discipline. This tool, allowing anyone to look up and track the histories of such officers, provides an invaluable service for the human rights community in our fight against impunity.”

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Jonathan Lambert - NPR - 1 March, 2024

In this NPR story, HRDAG’s Patrick Ball comments on first-of-its-kind projections.

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Stephanie Nolen - New York Times - 21 February, 2024

HRDAG director of research Patrick Ball is quoted in this New York Times article about a paper that models death tolls in Gaza.

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Paul Caine - WTTW - 29 November 2023

In this video, Trina Reynolds-Tyler of Invisible Institute talks about her work with HRDAG on the missing persons project in Chicago and Beneath the Surface.

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Henrik Urdal - CNN - 6 October 2023

In a CNN interview predicting a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Henrik Urdal from PRIO talks about his shortlist and HRDAG.

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Natasha - ACLU - 27 September 2023

HRDAG collaborated with Data for Justice Project on a tool tool allowing members of the public to visualize and analyze nearly a decade of Boston Police Department SWAT team after-action reports. Tarak Shah of HRDAG is named in the acknowledgments.

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Sally Ho and Garance Burke - AP - 15 March 2023

HRDAG contributed to work by the ACLU showing that a predictive tool used to guide responses to alleged child neglect may forever flag parents with disabilities. “These predictors have the effect of casting permanent suspicion and offer no means of recourse for families marked by these indicators,” according to the analysis from researchers at the ACLU and the nonprofit Human Rights Data Analysis Group. “They are forever seen as riskier to their children.”

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