25 Investigates first told you last week the website that promises data on police complaints, arrests, and use of force is a site of broken links to dashboards that only display error messages.
25 Investigates has learned the site has been largely inaccessible to the public since July.
“So, they’re gonna get that restored as quickly as we can,” Mayor Wu said Friday during an interview at a public event in the city. Wu said work was ongoing to restore the site and the public data that is supposed to be displayed on it.
The website is to Boston’s Office of Police Accountability and Transparency or OPAT.
It has a series of dashboards promising data from complaints against officers to police use of force.
If the data behind each dashboard does exist, you, the public, can’t access it. At least not now nor any of the days we checked over the past three weeks.
“The department has been able to continue to take in complaints and interacting with residents who have any information to share. But they’re working very quickly to get that back up and running,” Wu said.