Here at Homicide Watch we’ve been busy working behind the scenes on a relaunch of the site. You saw the first public roll out of that this week with the new comments system. More changes and features (all positive, we hope!) will be appearing over the next few weeks.
Part of what we’ve done to prepare for the changes is go through our data, clean it up and start to fill in the holes. To that end, I’ve cleaned up our Google spreadsheet of suspects. There were several court appearances today, so there are several updates that are already due, but I wanted to share the sheet with you sooner rather than later. It’s a resource that we rely on here to do a lot of reporting, and that means it should be in your hands, too.
A small version of the spreadsheet is below. On it you’ll find the names of those arrested on murder charges in 2011 (and some 2010 cases, too). The spreadsheet records the defendant’s date of birth, next court appearance, purpose of that court appearance, custody status, race and gender. Information comes from DC Superior Court and VineLink.
Click on the spreadsheet for a larger view of it.
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