Benjamin Lessing

@BigBigBLessing

Political Science. Author, Making Peace in Drug Wars: Crackdowns and Cartels in Latin America. Co-Founder, Prog. on Political Violence

Gått med januari 2013

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  1. 24 apr.

    I'm incredibly honored to be among this year's fantastic cohort of Carnegie Fellows, and grateful to for nominating me as its 2019 Junior candidate for the award. thanks to 2018 Fellows and for advice!

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  2. 19 apr.

    Don't forget what we all saw with our own eyes: has a fantastic timeline of over 140 Trump-Russia contacts, most of which we knew about before yesterday. ?

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  3. 19 apr.

    Police in Brazil killed 6,160 civilians during police actions in 2018, 17 per day. In Rio de Janeiro state, 8.9 police killings / 100000, higher than TOTAL homicide rate for any US state. More likely to be killed by police in Rio than killed at all in US.

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  4. 19 apr.

    On NPR just now "Mueller Report is a Rorschach test for Ds and Rs." That's exactly what's wrong: a 400p meticulous compendium of evidence is NOT an amorphous ink blot. But for Fox/GOP/Trump, reality itself is a Rorschach test; everything is power politics; ignorance is strength.

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  5. 19 apr.

    AG Barr's edit is a laugh, like dishonest blurbs: "The film's so bad I wish I'd killed myself"->"the film... killed!" But it's really a cry: the Attorney General deliberately misled Congress and the public, period. He's complicit, like many Rs now. Trump 2020 is their best hope.

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  8. 8 apr.

    Music to write your tenure file by: "Why don't you ask them What they expect from you Why don't you tell them What you are gonna do"

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  9. 5 apr.

    Excited to be moderating this fabulous panel on Security, Crime and Violence at the 2019 Harvard MIT Brazil Conference, w Governors Witzel and Santana of Rio and Ceará, as well as of . What should I ask them? Live stream available

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    29 mars

    GOP Reps are going into hide the football mode with the Mueller Report. Time to call your Reps and get them on the record. via

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  11. 21 mars

    I was interviewed on TV Assembléia, oficial station of the state legislature of Ceará, Brazil, about public security, organized crime, and drug policy. Entrevista minha na TV Assembléia do Ceará, sobre segurança pública, facções, violência etc.

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  12. 13 mars

    Para q o Brasil ñ caia na loucura de armas dos EUA, é crítico enterder que lá, depois de quase cada massacre, as leis ficam MAIS frouxas. Pq? A bancada da bala mobiliza sua base c pânico de q terá restrições. Parkland foi diferente pq os alunos mobilizaram

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  13. 13 mars

    Horrific school shooting in São Paulo. Like Columbine: 2 teens in weird outfits w crossbow(!) but guns did the killing. Sad step in Brazil's march to US-style gun madness. Hope it undercuts Bolsonaro's "arm the people" rhetoric; fear it will reinforce it.

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  14. 13 mars

    UFC is home to the Violence Studies Lab (LEV), where scholars are doing fantastic research on public security, policing, Fortaleza's slums, and the prison gangs that have taken them over.

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  15. 13 mars

    Very excited to be giving the inaugural lecture for the semester at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC)'s Social Science Graduate Program in Fortaleza.

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  16. 12 mars

    Officials sweep prison cells controlled by Rio's Comando Vermelho (CV) , discover network of homemade antennae to boost cell-phone signal. Also siezed 104 cell phones, 205 TVs, 60 fans, 30 coolers, and a WiFi router. Sounds like a party.

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  17. 22 feb.

    How efficient, rational-bureaucratic criminal governance arose within the brutal and corrupt prisons of Brazil: my new article with on the , now online at the APSR. A thousand thanks to everyone who helped.

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  18. 15 feb.

    Great piece at on rise and fall of ADA faction in Rio. But read this quote. A multinational-sized drug firm, but more than 1/2 revenues flowing to corrupt police (& presumably upward from there). It's a real alternative to legal taxation.

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  19. 14 feb.

    Rio's police killed 1532 civilians last year, an all-time record. Pacification/UPP was a strange (but important) interlude in a 30-year war between traffickers and the state. Upward trend of early 2000s re-established. And that was before Bolsonaro and Witzel were elected!

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  20. 14 feb.

    As Minister Moro (of Lava Jato fame) pushes a new anti-crime bill letting police shoot-to-kill if they feel "fear" or "violent emotion", these horrific headlines are going to become commonplace. But you know what? They already are. Police killed 1532 civilians in Rio last year!

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