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8 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Two-thirds of all police officers who’ve died in Florida this year have died from Covid. This Governor’s policies have directly contributed to that.
odmp.org/search?state=F…
In fact, given the obscene rates of Covid in Florida and the Governor’s policy encouraging this spread, Ron DeSantis might single-handedly pose more of a threat to the lives of law enforcement in the state than any other human being.
But, you know, he’ll be out here posting ‘Blue Lives Matter’ and ‘Back the Blue’ while police continue to die in record numbers under his policies and few in the media apparently have the courage to challenge him on this issue.

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7 Sep
Black men have higher college enrollment rates than white men at every income group. But Black college graduates end up with only 2/3 as much wealth as white high school dropouts because of systemic racism. insightcced.org/wp-content/upl…
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Black college graduates - $23,400
White high school dropouts - $34,700
insightcced.org/wp-content/upl…
I’m surprised this isn’t a larger part of the conversation on white male college enrollment rates. White men aren’t going college, perhaps, because existing systemic advantages allow them to obtain more wealth than other groups regardless.
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30 Aug
Despite having 58% of the US Black population, the South has remained under white domination throughout history (except for maybe Reconstruction). Voter suppression has enabled white reactionaries to hold the majority (often supermajority) of Southern state and federal offices.
Narrow exceptions to this are the CBC in the US House, where Congressional districts were designed intentionally to break through this white dominant structure. And now we’re seeing Senators like Warnock who put a dent in the Senate demographics. But the overall dynamic remains.
It’s still almost all white (and Republican) governors, state legislative majorities, US Senators, and Electoral Votes coming from the South. By design. Maybe VA and GA (we’ll see about FL, but not optimistic) are starting to break that trend, but it’s the longstanding dynamic.
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9 Jun
The FBI use of force data collection is a joke. They track substantially fewer incidents than we’ve already published online at mappingpoliceviolence.org and they say they won’t publicly share their data anytime soon. A distraction.
They could supplement their data collection by referencing media reports and existing databases (MPV, Fatal Encounters, WaPo) but instead they decided to rely *solely* on voluntary data collection from 18,000 police agencies, 73% of which aren’t currently choosing to participate.
They could decide to publish the data they *have* collected, which covers 27% of agencies. At least we could do something with that. But nope, the FBI decided they won’t share any department-level data until 80% of law enforcement participates - which likely will never happen.
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22 Apr
Here’s how often each Columbus police officer used force against people from 2001-2018. Some used force at substantially higher rates. But how often were they held accountable? A thread. (1/x)
Regardless of how much force they used, few officers were disciplined. 99% of incidents resulted in no discipline. Even for the officers with the worst records. Among officers who used the most force (40+ cases), only 1 officer was disciplined more than reprimand/counseling.(2/x)
That one officer in the group who was suspended was Adam Coy. But he wasn’t fired until last year when he killed Andre Hill, an unarmed Black man. He was charged with murder in February and facing trial. But this wasn’t a surprise given the data. Let’s take another look... (3/x)
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12 Apr
Let’s talk about the police accountability laws that just passed in Maryland. A thread. (1/x)
First, Maryland repealed its police bill of rights law that gave special protections to officers accused of misconduct. That law put police in charge of holding themselves accountable and kept communities from having insight into the process. That’s being replaced with... (2/x)
It’s replaced with a new system that empowers community. Each county will have a community-led police accountability board that appoints members to a committee that formally charges officers with misconduct. Police chief can increase, but not reduce, the recommended discipline.
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28 Mar
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…
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