Associate Professor of criminology & criminal justice @UNOSCCJ. Always a Gamecock though // research interests: police, procedural justice, use of force
Feb 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Journalists, I am once again begging you to stop insinuating that every police use of deadly force should result in murder or manslaughter charges being filed.
vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Look, all I meant was: every police killing =/= criminal homicide. Some do (likely more than 21!), and should be charged as such. Exactly how many? We don’t know. But it’s not all of them.
But of course: opinions vary.
Dec 2, 2022 • 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
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.
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:
Feb 18, 2021 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
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.