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Come work with me @ManhattanInst! Project manager job is open, helping run programs for legal policy, constitutional studies, and policing/public safety.
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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.
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seems like people doing reporting on GPT should learn anything about how GPT works
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VICE's Global Drugs Editor @Narcomania made a cup of tea for a chatbot vice.com/en/article/v7v
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Reasonable people: body-worn cameras reduce the frequency of police misconduct at the margins.
Abolitionists: a ha! But here is an instance where they didn't do that. Therefore they don't work!
Either dishonest or bad at reasoning.
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I'm sure MSNBC asked him about this in the editorial process.
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Fascinating how Alex cites one study (that probably failed due to spillovers) to argue that BWCs don't reduce misconduct, when the most recent and comprehensive metanalysis says they definitely reduce complaints, and likely reduce use of force.
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My latest: twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1…
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“A gunman who killed a transit employee and wounded three bystanders at a Washington, D.C., Metro station on Wednesday had a prior assault dismissed last year by a progressive prosecutor.”
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86 deadly traffic stops sounds like a “common catalyst for police violence” but only because didn’t report the denominator. ‘Common catalyst’ seems a stretch given report >20m people in traffic stops a year.
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Traffic stops are the most common way the public comes into contact with police. They're also a common catalyst for police violence trib.al/f5zSQ6E
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Young officer in my agency just tried to stop a vehicle with no plates.
It fled, no one chased.
This definitely can't possibly have any negative impacts on public safety.
The only option that would be better is if "unarmed traffic wardens" tried to stop it.
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Every Groundhog Day I take a moment to honor the greatest FOIA request ever filed: the hilarious emails between De Blasio's staff and reporters when he dropped that groundhog.
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It spends more on policing than anything else because most other budget functions are the responsibility of the county, state, or federal gov't.
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The Memphis police unit that fatally beat Tyre Nichols was part of a “special operations” division that receives $28 million a year, just a fraction of its $280 million budget. The city of Memphis spends more on policing than on anything else theintercept.com/2023/01/31/tyr
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This is the Super Bowl of all-time terrible Y axes.
Who ya got?
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"There's more police and less crime now, as compared to back then, when there were fewer police and more crime. How could this be!"
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Calling the simultaneity police
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Another day, another bad police staffing take, this time from @CityLab.
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Just to be clear, the "economic freedom and opportunity" being denied here is the freedom to violate state and federal law.
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The fact that MI routinely exceeds the insanely low threshold set by liberal groups like Third Way is not surprising, but thanks for reading.
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Notable for the Manhattan Institute's blog to concede that "basic correlations" on red/blue state murder trends "don’t take us much beyond the partisan finger-pointing stage."
In other words, partisan shaming re: the 2020 crime increase lacks evidence.
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Which power other than "the power of the state" are you supposed to use to change public universities
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How not to fix academia: The always-wise @cathyoung63 exposes DeSantis & Rufo's takeover of New College FL: "Stoking the culture wars, rallying the Trumpist base, and using the power of the state to defeat bad ideas is not the road back to sanity." thebulwark.com/ron-desantis-c
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"How much money do we currently spend on police" really seems like a basic thing you should know before you make claims like this, and yet nobody ever does.
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Quick, what percentage of government spending goes to policing
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Thread. Why “just add reform and stir” isn’t the magic bullet some people wish it was.
We must begin to reallocate funds away from bloated policing budgets into other avenues for addressing and reducing harm. twitter.com/Taniel/status/…
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Something a little strange about requiring officials to test the chemicals used for execution to make sure they don't have bacteria in them.
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Top Tennessee officials overseeing executions 'incorrectly testified' under oath they were testing drugs before use. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t @NBCNews @AP #deathpenalty
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"I want to meet women demographically similar to me, but there are so few!"
Right, well, there are also very few men demographically similar to you. But they all probably live in the same place as you, so
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"The U.S. now consumes about 85% of all the world’s opiates. As a result, the rate of overdose deaths is around 20 times higher in America than the global average."
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The solution to this problem is clearly *checks notes* restorative justice conferencing
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Why does the x axis end at 2021?
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Can’t believe it’s been over two months since the “will layoffs at Twitter cause the site to shutdown??” panic
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This I did not know!
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Richard Frank, Haiden Huskamp and I offer thoughts on the new proposed regulations governing medications for opioid use disorder. @BrookingsInst
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OUT TODAY – A new study from CCJ finds that most types of violent crime declined in major U.S. cities in 2022, but robberies and theft offenses rose. Homicide counts were 4% lower last year than in 2021, representing 242 fewer murders in the cities studied.
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A video on TikTok for two weeks in July showed people how to steal certain Kias and Hyundais. The result in some cities has been an almost comical increase in auto thefts.
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It's like people on this website don't know anything about law enforcement other than what they learn from skimming headlines on Twitter
oh, wait
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Replying to @CharlesFLehman
Now do cops cheating tolls by covering their license plates.
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White collar crime is very bad! We should prosecute it to the fullest extent of the law. Now will you agree with me that we should prosecute other crimes too?
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This is the point about harm. It's not "but for fare beating, the MTA would be solvent." That's not true on paper. It's "when you don't pay, you are making it in a small way worse for everyone else," which is why it is wrong to label it a "victimless" fiction of a crime.
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But "we are past diminishing marginal returns in enforcement" is very different from the position, taken by sundry lunatics on this website, that all fare beating enforcement is bad, and it's intolerable to expect those who are able to pay not to flaunt the rules.
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But so here's the thing: obviously there will be diminishing marginal returns in enforcement. I suspect MTA is not past 0, but also the major benefits of fare beating enforcement aren't really added revenue.
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This is the only estimate anyone has actually cited. But the goal of the surge, as far as I can tell, was not primarily to reduce fare beating, but to do QoL enforcement and/or to reduce violent crime in the subway. But it's cool they got 4/5 back anyway!
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