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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey
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Vice reviewed 4,099 police shootings in the 50 largest cities. Black people were *55%* of those shot and more likely unarmed. Here’s the police shootings rate by race. (1/x)
They find police shootings decreased over the past few years. Police departments that adopted DOJ reforms saw massive reductions: 32% fewer shootings in the *first year.* news.vice.com/story/shot-by-…
Cities that voluntarily adopted the DOJ reforms to policing policies had 32% fewer shootings, those that were mandated to reform had 25% fewer. The policies make a difference, period.
Which means Jeff Sessions’s decision not to use the DOJ to mandate or even support voluntary reforms will literally result in more people being killed by police, the majority of whom are black.
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First some context: Mississippi is 37% black - the largest proportion of black residents of any US state. Given that black voters tend to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, why do Republicans comfortably win so many statewide elections in MS? (2/x)
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40% of all black men in the state of Florida just became eligible to vote *today.* Think about that.
Here’s how the 40% figure is determined. Estimates of the black population in Florida who have already completed their sentence range from 18%-28%. The Sentencing Project has 18%: sentencingproject.org/wp-content/upl…

New research shows a higher 28%: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
But the vast majority of those disenfranchised in Florida are men. Men are 93% of those currently incarcerated in Florida. So 18-28% of black people overall is more like 35-45% of black men in particular who were disenfranchised just a few hours ago and are now eligible to vote.
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