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Dec 2 5 tweets 3 min read
I recently made a crash course for our @UNOSCCJ grad students on building a professional website. I'm sharing it here in hopes that others might find it helpful.
#AcademicTwitter

Creating a Professional Website jnix.netlify.app/talk/sccj_grad…
I used @wowchemy and had a lot of help from other resources made available by, e.g., @dsquintana, @xieyihui, @georgecushen, @apreshill, and @stevenvmiller.
The clearest benefit to creating and maintaining an academic website is that it enables you to make your research and/or teaching materials more accessible.
It's a shame when people actually find your work and are interested enough to read it, but hit a paywall ➡️ "Meh, not *that* interesting."

Share post-prints and write short summaries of what you did, what you found, and why it matters. People will be more likely to read it.
If anyone does actually use this to make a website, please come back and link to your creation here!

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Feb 4
Hey look, @washingtonpost finally updated its police shootings database. There was no 13% decline in 2021 as reported over the last month. But if you were paying attention to the other databases, you knew that already.

cc: @fatalencounters @samswey Image
And it's probably still too soon to look at WAPO's data and conclude that fatal shootings of unarmed persons are down significantly. Image
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Mar 18, 2021
Lots of useful information here about police use of deadly force in 2020, c/o @samswey and his team:
policeviolencereport.org

Thread to follow.
It's tough to make sense of what some of these numbers mean without more context.

Only 1% of killings resulted in an officer being charged. But what % *should have* been charged? About 50% of killings involved someone shooting or threatening someone else with a gun:
~70% of killings were the result of traffic stops, mental health crises, or other suspected nonviolent offenses. "Suspected" is key here, because as @Jerry_Ratcliffe's latest study shows, calls for police service aren't always what they seem at first.
link.springer.com/article/10.118…
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Feb 18, 2021
How many people are killed by police officers each year in the U.S.? The answer depends on the data you're using, so be sure to read up on each source's methodology.

FE: fatalencounters.org/methodology/
MPV: mappingpoliceviolence.org/aboutthedata
WaPo: github.com/washingtonpost…
According to @fatalencounters, more than 29,000 police-involved deaths occurred between 2000 and 2020 - an average of 1400 each year.

Over 6000 deaths were caused by vehicular collisions (~290 per year on average).
And keep in mind national trends disguise a lot of variation at smaller units of analysis. The Mountain division has had the highest per capita rate of non-vehicular police-involved deaths since 2016.
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