An economist did an experiment by emailing ~2000 police agencies asking for help filing a complaint. He randomized the “sender’s” name to signal race/ethnicity and sex. Overall RR 67%; agencies less likely to respond to emails signed w/Black or Hispanic names. #AcademicTwitter
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
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.