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Feb 1 11 tweets 4 min read
🚨After @Nettaaaaaaaa and I called for accountability for #CampaignZero, @deray is trying to forcibly take over the Mapping Police Violence database that I and my team have built for *years* - redirecting it to a COPY he has no capacity to maintain in an act of retaliation. 🚨
Before I even met Deray and before Campaign Zero existed, I began building Mapping Police Violence to give communities data to fight back against police violence. It has since become among the most cited resources in the space. The real site is still here: mappingpoliceviolence.squarespace.com
I never thought his animosity over my leaving CZ would cause him to retaliate like this. The fact that we’ve been working on this database for months *unpaid* while he keeps fundraising $40M+ on our work - and on the movement - is shameful. AND on the first day of BHM!
I’ve worked with my team to refine our data collection over years & produce original research on police violence and solutions. Deray has not contributed to this project, other than trying to take credit for it. Now he’s trying to steal the entire project. I won’t stand for it.
My team and I have painstakingly collected, documented, analyzed and visualized some of the most horrific acts of police violence every day, every week, every year now for 7 years. They are disrespecting the work and the people who created this and are blatantly PLAGIARIZING.
The real database will now be accessible here: mappingpoliceviolence.squarespace.com

DO NOT go to the domain mappingpoliceviolence.org until it is transferred to us. We CANNOT vouch for data posted on that domain now, and nobody at that org has proven capacity to do this work with integrity.
This man even added his org’s donate button to the site and put out a fundraising email *today* to take even more. This whole time he’s been building a brand off of others’ work & research.
He’s even still touring using stats we produce and probably stating them inaccurately. Lord knows it wouldn’t be the first time. fsunews.com/story/life/202…
All this in retaliation for speaking out about how Deray and his friends have pushed out the other co-founders of Campaign Zero and tried to take the $40M raised largely from platforms he didn’t build and use it for who knows what, with no accountability. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
In the meantime, I will continue to do my work as best as I can despite these attempts. My team will continue collecting and publishing data to support frontline communities and researchers alike. We are not deterred, just obstructed. But Deray needs to resign for this.
If you are looking for data on police violence, you will still be able to find it at:
mappingpoliceviolence.squarespace.com
And we still own & operate the largest database of police violence and accountability in the US, which was also made without Deray:
policescorecard.org

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More from @samswey

Jan 25
The simplest explanation for this is that the high-profile murder of civilians by police traumatizes and destabilizes communities, which leads to increases in crime. Police violence periodically generates crime in communities.
This has nothing to do with police “pulling back.” It has to do with police aggression leading to catastrophic results for communities. Population-wide effects of police violence on community health, particularly in Black communities, are well-documented: news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…
What’s particularly pernicious about the “scholarship” on this issue is that a group of criminologists is advancing a theory that police are *not being aggressive enough* after murdering someone that that causes crime to increase. The exact wrong conclusion to draw from the data.
Read 7 tweets
Jan 21
Mapping Police Violence just released a report finding 2021 was one of the *worst years for deadly police violence on record.* See the report at policeviolencereport.org. Here are some of the key findings from our analysis (1/x)…
In 2021 police killed at least 1,134 people. The majority of these killings began with a mental health crisis, traffic violation, disturbance, other non-violent offense or situation with no crime alleged. Only 1 in 3 cases began with a reported violent crime. (2/x)
Police disproportionately killed Black people and Latinos in 2021 - especially when unarmed. Black people have consistently been killed by police at higher rates - and have been unarmed at higher rates - for as far back as data exists on this issue. (3/x)
Read 11 tweets
Jan 19
A nationwide public initiative process would be a far superior mechanism of governance than the United States Senate.
You’d preserve the Presidency and US House (the more representative institutions) and where those (or the courts) fall short you’d have direct democracy with initiatives to cut through institutional barriers and enact laws (even constitutional amendments with a higher threshold).
Policies broadly supported like addressing economic inequality, etc are unlikely to happen under the existing system because the politicians who get elected are almost exclusively wealthy and refuse broaden access. But they might happen if it were put directly on the ballot.
Read 5 tweets
Jan 16
You can’t name a single thing in Tim Scott’s bill that would’ve made a measurable difference in police violence rates. Not a thing.
Tim Scott’s bill restricts but doesn’t ban chokeholds, which most police agencies already do and that wouldn’t even prevent the fewer than 1% of killings by police that are due to chokeholds.
His bill encourages better data collection but the federal government has already proven inept and unwilling to use their existing authority to collect or share useful data on police violence. Moreover, that data is being collected anyway (see: policescorecard.org)
Read 4 tweets
Jan 16
That same study found more cops = more low level arrests especially of Black people. Low level arrests are linked to more use of force and police shootings (which result in 1 in every ~14 homicides). But the potential increase in police killings isn’t factored into the analysis.
Even if not killed initially, those low level arrests often lead to incarceration. Incarceration *increases* death rates for Black people by 65%. So those arrests end up killing people too (and harming communities). This also isn’t factored into the study. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
Meanwhile the study’s claim that more cops reduce homicides is also shaky. Even after they fail to factor in negative impacts, increasing the police force “decreased” in homicides 54% of the time (and didn’t 46% of the time). So it’s still basically a coin toss. Not a solution.
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Dec 27, 2021
Ok, I’ve been trying to find an answer to this question but nobody has had it yet. How many people have the LAPD fatally shot this year? Let me explain…
Today the AP reported that the LAPD fatally shot the 18th person this year. That includes 1 person killed today, two people on 12/23, and two people on 12/18, as reported by LA Times. BUT…
On 10/15, LA Times reported LAPD had killed 11 people including someone on 10/13. By 12/23 they reported 17 people had been killed (18 after today). latimes.com/california/sto…
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