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Worse than you think, worse

artappraiser — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 21:51:39 +0000

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Worse than you think, worse than it looks —> https://t.co/FiTIAt8xfn
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 2, 2020

Police should not be shooting

rmrd0000 — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:43:02 +0000

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Police should not be shooting or choking unarmed citizens. Period.

Would you really use these numbers as a sign of encouragement?

The data do not take into account that people are now capturing police abuse with and without death on video. People see women being swarmed for not wearing masks. They see an elderly woman trying to protect her grandson, pushed to the ground by police officers who pulled out their guns because the young man did not come to a full stop at a red light. No traffic accident occurred. No one was hit by the car.

The numbers above represent great progress to you. You argue from a bubble.

Are you working for Trump?

Edit to add:

Despite a recent uptick, the homicide rate in Chicago is dramatically decreased from the 1990s. Would you hand out an award?

Excerpt; There's actually

artappraiser — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:42:11 +0000

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Excerpt; There's actually been progress in the 30 big urban areas:

Police departments in America’s 30 largest cities killed 30 percent fewer people in 2019 than in 2013, the year before the Ferguson protests began, according to the Mapping Police Violence database. Similarly, The Washington Post’s database shows 17 percent fewer killings by these agencies in 2019 compared to 2015, the earliest year it tracks.

This data isn’t perfect. The databases have slightly different methodologies for collecting and including police killings. And not everyone who’s shot winds up dying, which means some people who are shot by police don’t end up in one of these tracking projects. So to better test and understand the progress made in these big cities, I compiled an expanded database of all fatal and nonfatal police shootings by these departments, which expands our view of any changes in police behavior. Based on data published on police departments’ websites and reported in local media databases, I found data covering police shootings in 2013-2019 for 23 of the 30 departments.2 An analysis of this data shows that police shootings in these departments dropped 37 percent from 2013 to 2019.

new piece @ FiveThirtyEight:

artappraiser — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:39:18 +0000

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new piece @ FiveThirtyEight: Police Are Killing Fewer People In Big Cities, But More In Suburban And Rural America

I wrote about the data on police violence, what’s changed since 2014, and how the data can help us identify solutions to reduce police violence nationwide. https://t.co/dQALxb3Cuh
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) June 1, 2020

Excellent and constructive.

artappraiser — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:15:42 +0000

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Excellent and constructive. https://t.co/zLV1jtFaG2
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) June 1, 2020