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28 Mar, 4 tweets, 3 min read
The Governor of Georgia lives in a mansion that is upkept by prison laborers. Most are Black. According to the GA Department of Corrections, “these residents are not paid any wages.” dcor.state.ga.us/Divisions/Faci…
These incarcerated workers are classified by prison system as “Maintenance Residents” who work full time maintaining the Governor’s mansion and other state government facilities. powerdms.com/public/GADOC/d…
The state of Georgia methodically tracks these incarcerated workers. Regular schedules posted by age, race, religion, weight, IQ scores, reading scores, physical/medical tests. How many attempted escapes there were. 21st century slave schedules. gdc.ga.gov/sites/all/them…
Georgia is one of 7 states that assigns incarcerated workers to maintain the grounds of Governor’s mansions and/or state Capitols. All former Confederate states. And Georgia has the highest rate of people under correctional control in the entire nation. prisonpolicy.org/reports/correc…

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15 Mar
We analyzed data on 1,127 killings by police in 2020 - finding alternative responses to mental health, traffic violations and other non-violent situations could substantially reduce fatal police violence nationwide. A thread (1/x). policeviolencereport.org
Working with an incredible team of data analysts (h/t @moncketeer @MaryLagman @KirbyPhares @backspace), we compiled media reports, official statements and other info on how each incident began, what reportedly happened during the encounter and whether officers were charged.
First, 2020 was largely in line with a longstanding pattern of ~1,100 killings by police per year since at least 2013. The lockdown, economic crisis, changes in crime, etc didn’t appear to change this trend, the overall pace of fatal police violence in America.
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12 Feb
Let’s talk about what the latest research tells us about police violence. A thread. (1/x)
There’s growing evidence that there has been a substantial decline (~30-40%) in police shootings/killings *in major cities* since the protests started in 2014. I’ve written about this here. But WHY the reduction in cities and why not other places? Well... fivethirtyeight.com/features/polic…
Now this is where it gets complicated. Because the places that saw the biggest reductions in police violence seem to share a set of common factors, some of which might’ve contributed and others which might not have. For example...
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23 Dec 20
Arbitration is essentially the qualified immunity of officer discipline. While qualified immunity prevents families from receiving financial payouts from the city for misconduct, arbitration prevents cities from actually holding those individual officers accountable.
Because holding officers accountable has historically been the exception, not the rule, both qualified immunity and arbitration tie current practices to past precedents in a way that blocks the expansion of financial or administrative accountability for police violence in the US.
Both qualified immunity and arbitration are important practices to target for change via legislation. The focus on ending qualified immunity - which won’t actually hold those officers accountable (due to indemnification) must be expanded to include a focus on arbitration as well.
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5 Sep 20
This isn’t true. There are three primary databases that track killings by police - Mapping Police Violence (ours), FatalEncounters, and the Washington Post. Between those, WaPo is the least comprehensive and the only one which doesn’t include non-shooting and off-duty killings.
What you’re referencing is the fact that the WaPo database in particular does not comprehensively track killings by police and is cited frequently in ways that underreport the scale of violence (WaPo also misses some on-duty fatal police shootings as well btw).
The WaPo data also underreports unarmed people killed by police. They don’t categorize people holding objects that aren’t weapons as unarmed and also don’t track the huge proportion of unarmed people who are killed by police tasers, restraints, etc and not shootings.
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13 Aug 20
What’s the plan B for people to be able to vote by mail if USPS doesn’t function?
I’m seeing a lot of responses that people should just drop off their mail-in ballots but if USPS doesn’t function/is delayed substantially then won’t many people simply not receive these ballots in the first place?
I know several people personally who requested mail-in ballots in Florida in the (extremely close) 2018 election and never received the ballots in the mail. Many didn’t end up being able to vote as a consequence.
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25 Jul 20
The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates 53 million people had contact with police nationwide in 2015. This report is key to understanding how to reduce encounters with police overall. A thread. bjs.gov/content/pub/pd… Image
15% of all police contacts (8M/year) were in response to car crashes. The rest of the contacts were evenly split between people who called police and people who were stopped by police. White people had *more* contact with police overall - mainly because they called police more. Image
Here’s a breakdown of who called/initiated contact with police. White people were more likely to call police to report a possible crime, to report medical emergency/situations that wasn’t a crime, and to seek help for another reason. But who gets stopped by police more... Image
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