Professor of Public Policy at @Harvard and founder of @CompPolicyLab, using data + tech to drive reform in criminal justice, education, voting rights, & beyond
Jun 24, 2020 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
These are important issues and we hope people will take the time to read both papers. As we show (arxiv.org/abs/2006.12460), our key point is that KLM commit a mathematical error in rejecting a useful statistical approach integral to policy reform. (Thread)
Given unprecedented opportunities for police reform, it’s crucial to get this right. We have consistently taken aim at identifying and mitigating discriminatory behavior, both through academic research and partnerships with policymakers. For instance: nature.com/articles/s41562
Mar 14, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
To assess racial disparities in police interactions, we compiled & analyzed a dataset detailing nearly 100 million municipal and state patrol traffic stops conducted in dozens of jurisdictions across the country, the largest such effort to date. 5harad.com/papers/100M-st… (thread)
In partnership with @StanfordJourn we filed hundreds of public records requests in all fifty states and over 100 cities, and spent years to clean and standardize the data.
