Actions over words - love this Debo. Can see Crystal being the bedrock for a new era of accountability

Love it @levandreessen ! So excited for this to get into hands across the country.

Hi ProductHunt, Debo here - co-founder of Gigster and one of the makers. Like most, I was incredibly shaken up by the 9 minutes of horror that led to George Floyd’s death. None of the rest of my identity mattered. I saw myself perfectly reflected in him. I could very well be killed with a knee to the neck. I have not physically been able to get myself to simply tweet and move on with life. I’m compelled to think about what a collection of builders could have done to help prevent George’s death. Technology is no silver bullet but we have already solved the problem of understanding reputation without delegating our trust to third parties in many existing apps. We can crowdsource reputation and know that someone is a likely killer, make it public and hold them accountable before they kill someone. We can do this *now* without permission. I am a builder. This is my form of protest. I am thankful for the organic community of ~100 people who share these beliefs and have come together over just a few days. The group believes in the power of engaging usable products as a tool for driving collective law enforcement. A small group of builders from this collective worked on getting this very simple prototype of Crystal out over the past couple of days. Learn more about the values of the community and other projects here and join us . The vision of this specific app is to power community driven law enforcement. We can get transparency, accountability and a healthy police-community relationship without begging for it. In the future, we would like to allow individuals to record all positive and negative interactions with police and have the app mediate other kinds of interactions with law enforcement. There’s quite a lot to do, and so we would love contributors to this and other projects being worked on by the collective. For sure we even need to make the app look better on mobile :) Here are some other cool enhancements we want to add to Crystal: - Mechanisms for communication, collaboration, and cooperation to allow interactions between police and the community - A live feed of user-generated media showing encounters with the police - Automated accountability procedures and reporting to support communities in documenting their interactions with law enforcement You can sign up to contribute on slack, check out the GitHub project or provide some feedback on what else you'd like to see. Thank you! Much Love.

This is awesome! So cool to see all these familiar faces working on it <3. Going to share with my community of tech volunteers.

@dolaoseb love this Debo! Amazing to see it live.

Honestly, this worries me "We can crowdsource reputation and know that someone is a likely killer, make it public and hold them accountable before they kill someone" How? and what if you're wrong? The idea of judging and holding someone accountable for something they haven't actually done based on "crowdsourced reputation" is a really really frightening concept.

Wow love the idea and the UI! You might need to add some media queries to make the site responsive for different screen sizes :)

It was such a pleasure coming together to work on this with many driven and talented people. We were super scrappy and wanted to get the MVP out so we could get some feedback (Like making the app more responsive and mobile friendly ☺️). We would love more contributors so we can continue to build and iterate on this. ☮️❤️

Citizens need greater transparency and control over police who are repeat offenders of endangering citizens lives unnecessarily, corruption, hiding evidence, and misusing their power. Sounds like Crystal will be addressing this directly and I am excited to see what it becomes.

What is the vetting process like? Who ensures the database carries accurate information and who updates them?

This is amazing - please keep up the great work!

This team and community has created a space to take use of our diverse skills in product design, UX, data toward some good. As psychologically exhausting as some of the research has been, it has also felt like a tangible step toward increasing transparency. I'm looking forward to more people contributing their officer reviews.

It's been satisfying (and enraging) to work on researching content for this. Amazing team, horrible data. I'm looking forward to interactive features in the future to help users channel their emotions into action.

Great stuff - structured platforms for civic engagement are absolutely required right now. Why share info, reports across hundreds of google docs in different formats when Crystal is available.

I think it’s timely and long overdue. The beautiful part of this whole project is the open-source bit which I’m hoping allows it to be localized from city to city, state to state, country to country, with their own individual laws & procedures. This would thereby as some point in the future serve as a global repository for gauging both the good and bad conduct of law enforcement personnel that have been empowered to carry out the duty of ensuring the safety and peace of the public they do dear serve.