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Daily News caused quite a stir last week at city hall when they released a database containing every city employee's salary, save for sworn employees (ex. police, fire). You can browse by department or look up by name. Have a friend who works too hard? Now you know they need a raise. Deal with an irritable city employee over the phone recently? Maybe they're overpaid.
Now, starting today, thanks to Daily News crime blogger, Jason Kandel, readers can look up people arrested in your neighborhood. So far, the database only shows who got arrested on Sunday, May 18th and according to those listings, a total of 290 people were arrested in Los Angeles yesterday. From attempted murder to DUIs, it's all there. However, the paper duly notes that "each person in this database is a suspect only and is considered innocent until proven guilty in court."
It's unknown if this will be a routinely updated information portal or not, but it does highlight what the LAPD is doing at some level. 290 -- that's seems like a lot of arrests, but it's a trend not often studied in the public eye. How many people will be arrested today?
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Um...ok. So I understand how people want to know the salaries of city workers but shouldn't they have stopped at job title? Why on Earth does the search need to include the employee's name? Even though it's apparently public information (which amazes me), that doesn't mean the Daily News should be displaying it like this. I sure as hell don't think anyone else should know what my salary is.
The public deserves to know who they are paying, what that person does (ie. what they are paid to do), and how much they are being paid.
We're not talking private information. These are public employees and if you work for the public, the public sure as hell does deserve to know what you're being paid. Just like if you work for a private company, the owners of that company deserve to know what you're being paid.
How many people will be arrested today?
Are you gonna start a game with this? I'll put my chips on 315.
When wil the Daily put together a database of car crashes and traffic fatalities and injuries?
None of our L.A. public agencies seem to have anything set up to track this sort of thing.
The Daily News database caused quite a fuss at my office, and some of my coworkers have co-authored a letter to their union seeking some type of action against the Daily News.
The funny thing is that they posted my salary less than what I make, so whatevs. But I don't agree with the fact about posting our names and departments.
Our salaries are able for public view, but it is my position and salary grade just to give a general idea. That would have been sufficient, IMO.