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Feb 28 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Yesterday @NYDailyNews featured a story on "random city killings" headlined "Beware of Strangers."

It cited NYPD statistics showing 14 people killed by strangers in 2020 and 26 in 2021.

What it didn't mention is that 8 of the 2020 and 5 of the 2021 killings were by police.
As @DyjuanTatro pointed out, nationally one third of "stranger killings" are by police.

@washingtonpost's database for police shootings in NYC show in NYC in 2020 and 2021, the figures were 8 and 5 respectively. washingtonpost.com/graphics/inves…
I should also mention that @washingtonpost's database is limited to police shootings, so if police killed people in police pursuits or in other incidents of brutality the percentage may be higher.
We also know according to @nytimes the number of police killings are vastly undercounted, so the figure is likely underestimated.
But even disregarding these factors, by @washingtonpost's database alone, police killings made up *more than half* of stranger killings in 2020 and 20% of stranger killings in 2021.
Of the 7 "stranger killings" the article notes so far in 2022, 2 have been by police. Think how much publicity the others have received.
Here's the @NYDailyNews article. nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-c…
.@NYDailyNews will you be issuing correction?

@ny1desk @NY1 this is the article you discussed yesterday.

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Feb 27
If I were hosting a webinar on bail reform and all the speakers were in favor, I would never promote it as a "both sides" event (I *wouldn't* host a "both sides" event) but apparently if you represent @NYCCOBA1 and stack the panel with vehement opponents of bail reform, you do. Image
You also invoke the name of Justice Constance Baker Motley who was a champion of civil rights, which honestly I can't even begin to comment on.
Why would I not host a "both sides" event? Because opponents of bail reform do not make good faith arguments based on accurate information.
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Feb 27
This is one of the worst wrongful conviction cases I have ever seen.

Anthony Sims has spent 24 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. He was prosecuted by the head of Brooklyn's Wrongful Conviction Unit who denied his application for review.
cnn.com/2022/02/27/us/…
That ADA, Mark Hale, retired six months ago. He has a long and substantiated record of misconduct. Last year a court dismissed the conviction of Emmanuel Cooper, whose case Hale prosecuted and who had served 25 years in prison. nysfocus.com/2021/09/23/ant…
The *only* evidence linking Mr. Sims to the murder of which he was convicted was the testimony of a former friend, Julius Graves, who is widely believed to have committed the murder. Mr. Graves has since recanted that testimony in an affidavit.
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Feb 27
More police propaganda splashed all over the front page of @NYDailyNews.

Stats show "rise" in "random street killings."

The article quotes NYPD stats showing an increase from 3% in 2020 to 5.3% in 2021.

But the article itself also shows why that figure is grossly misleading.
First, the stats only include people "killed on the streets" not the total number of homicides. So you are starting with an unreliable sample. People deemed not to have known each other, perhaps because they were transient, may in fact have known each other.
Second, the actual numbers are exceptionally small. 14 people deemed not to have known each other in 2020, 26 last year. nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-c…
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Feb 25
It is depressing, but predictable that @smh editor @BevanShields has appointed @KnottMatthew as its national correspondent on race, identity and culture, when as US correspondent he repeatedly showed a fundamental lack of understanding of race and racism in this country.
.@smh has some amazing Indigenous journalists who are much better writers and much more qualified to write about race in Australia.

So disappointing.
Take this recent article on Robin DiAngelo, which isn't even timely (the book came out six months ago).

He doesn't even consider whether it is appropriate for a White woman to be making $$ from teaching people about race and racism. It's like the question never occurred to him.
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Feb 25
Today's @NYDailyNews reports the death of a houseless woman on the subway, notes it is the 8th death in 2022, part of a "grim surge."

What it doesn't say is that hundreds of people die in homeless shelters every year. The subways by this measure are safer.gothamist.com/news/covid-19-… Image
I'm not posting a link to the @NYDailyNews article because it actually includes a photo of the dead woman.
Most houseless people do live in shelters, but there are very good reasons why people might choose not to. The conditions in shelters are deplorable. Most are congregate settings. They were (still are) a hotbed for COVID.
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Feb 24
I'm gonna say Lawrence Tribe probably ranks number one on the Kardashian Index of law professors. theinformationalturn.net/kardashian-ind…
What is the Kardashain index? It measure whether an academic's social media profile outweighs their academic reputation. web.archive.org/web/2014101100…
It doesn't matter that he is an professor at Harvard Law School. So is Alan Dershowitz.
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