Should police misconduct and use of force data be publicly available?

The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) has made New York State Police misconduct, discipline, and use-of-force data easily available to the public on their site as a part of their New York Police Transparency Database. They analyzed records and incidents between the years of 2000 and 2020 and made the full dataset publicly available in a searchable and sortable table on their site and downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet. The New York State Police have routinely tried to block the release of this information even though it was supposed to be accessible to the public. What the NYCLU did...