Daniel Lawrence’s Tweets

Jul 26

I wrote a short article on the different sources of data on police deadly uses of force, which include federal, media, and open-sourced data. You can see in the below chart the large differences in the counts from these sources, but there are clear reasons why. Check it out!

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CNA

@CNA_org

· Jul 26

New from InDepth, "Sources for Police Use of Force Data," by @Dan_S_Lawrence and Hannah McLaurin. #Police cna.org/our-media/inde

Love to see when the

conference agenda is released! I kept it simple this year with just one presentation but looking forward to connecting with everyone. Full program here: convention2.allacademic.com/one/asc/asc22/

Jacob Kaplan

@JacobKaplanCrim

Jul 25

A recent paper says that de-prosecution in Philadelphia is related to an increase in homicide. In this paper,

@Tom_Scott_Crim

@jj_naddeo

, and I explain that the study has multiple flaws that when corrected flips the main effect’s direction and renders it null. Major flaws 1/8

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Minority of both democrats and republicans say that “addressing the criminal justice system” should be a top priority and the difference between the two is small. Would like to see this broken by other characteristics.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

@KHayhoe

· Jul 23

Here's a list of the most politically polarized issues in the US from Pew Research - the wider the gray bar, the more polarized the issue.

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NIJ Director Nancy La Vigne

@NIJDirLaVigne

Jul 22

Women officers are assets to police forces, but research is limited on how to recruit and retain their service. This 2019 NIJ-sponsored report offers a starting point for moving toward equality and equity for #WomenInPolicing: ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/

Jul 21

I sent this tweet and within 14 days receive three separate requests to review manuscripts....🧐I see you, you editors...

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· Jul 7

My yearly stats in academic journal reviews: I average about 1 review per quarter since I started my career; I've recommended rejections to 61.5%, revisions to 30.8%, and accepts to only 7.7% of reviewed manuscripts. The journal has agreed with my recommendation 84.6% of the time

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Jul 21

I do keep seeing this over and over again, and it's so upsetting and terrifying to me.

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Donald Weatherburn

@DonWeatherburn

· Jul 21

It troubles me that so many young criminologists do research to ‘prove’ a point rather than test a theory or answer a question. The idea of suspending judgment on an empirical issue seems foreign to them

Donald Weatherburn

@DonWeatherburn

Jul 21

Control Over Contraband Devices Eludes Prison Authorities: Report

Nancy La Vigne

@NLVigne

Jul 20

Still trying to migrate followers to

@NIJDirLaVigne

- thanks in advance for following me there!

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Nancy La Vigne

@NLVigne

· Jul 5

REMINDER: This account is dormant while I serve as Director of the National Institute of Justice. Follow me there @NIJDirLaVigne and feel free to RT by way of spreading the word!

Check out this

article on the project too:

thecrimereport.org

Correctional administrators across the country are failing to curb the growing use of contraband cell phones in prisons and jails, according to the Urban Institute. One big issue is the role played...

Another legislation tracker I helped out on before leaving

@urbaninstitute

. This one on contraband cell phones in correctional settings. Work accomplished with

and Megan Kizzort.

Contraband Cell Phones: Legislative Tracker

Laws and penalties for illegal phones in prisons and jails

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Body-Worn Camera TTA

@BWC_TTA

Jul 19

CNA's BWC PIP TTA Team is excited to host the 2022 BWC Virtual National Meeting! July 19-21, 2022. #BWC_TTA #2022BWCTTA

Thaddeus Lateef Johnson

@docthadjohnson

Jul 18

Accessible link to our article: Despite arresting Black citizens at disproportionately higher rates, city PDs requiring at least an associate's degree were less likely to cause the deaths of Black and unarmed citizens over time. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s

@NNJohnsonEdD

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Thaddeus Lateef Johnson

@docthadjohnson

· Jul 15

Thread alert: Our results show that agency college degree requirements are associated with significant reductions in police-related fatalities (PRF) involving Black and unarmed citizens from 2000 to 2016. link.springer.com/article/10.100 @NNJohnsonEdD @CouncilonCJ @gsucjc

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Police Body-Worn Camera Legislation Tracker

Jul 14

One of my last projects when I was

@urbaninstitute

was to update the body-worn camera legislation tracker, which was last updated in 11/2018. I left and passed the work to

@Lily_a_Robin

, and am now excited to say that the updated tool has been released!

apps.urban.org

Use our legislation tracker to find out more about passed and pending laws in your state.

Justice Talks: The criticality of pairing social science and algori...

Jul 13

New Justice Talks podcast from

@CNA_org

with Thema Monroe-White and

@luther_tyus

that examines how to understand data bias, the harms in using biased data, and ways to mitigate harms while using algorithmic practices in the justice system. Check it out!

justicetalks.libsyn.com

In our previous CNA Justice Talks podcast, we discussed the understudied phenomenon of labor trafficking. In this episode, Hildy Saizow leads a discussion with Dr. Thema Monroe-White and Luther Tyus...

NASA

@NASA

Jul 11

It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field. Previewed by

@POTUS

on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of

@NASAWebb

's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

$The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.$

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Jul 11

A reminder that, yes, police budgets are increasing (1st image), along with many other municipal expenditures, which results in police budgets having a flat percentage of total expenditures (2nd image)- a historic 3.8% of state and local budgets. Source: counciloncj.foleon.com/policing/asses

Jul 8

I'm off my soap box, but --argh-- these surveys drive me up the wall. Have a good weekend.

But instead, companies doing this work just regurgitate what the nominees want to hear, making them believe more and more that they're doing the work that people want. When in reality, the responses are no where near representative to the community.

The crazy thing is, this political survey could have been done in a way to collect unbiased information about the nominees. And that information could then be shared with the nominee to inform their understanding of community concerns.

But when people take surveys like this, and there are *many* of them, they lose trust in our science. Then, the next time they see results from reputable organizations, they question them or push results aside as biased or invalid.

This is such a threat to the science community. Researchers, such as myself, try so hard to remove bias from our survey items, to ensure that we don't influence responses, and so on and so on. There's literally a field of survey research methodology that you can get a degree in!

I can only imagine how a person could be influenced by these surveys. They may lean one way prior to the survey and then lean another way after reading these events, which are presented as a scientific, unbiased, rigorous survey of "current events."

These items then lead up to the question on how knowing about these events now affected who I was going to vote for in November.

And here are the items for the other nominee. Worded in such a way to showcase how great they are, using positive adjectives, and showing how they're such a strong community member.

These are the items for one nominee. All of these are somewhat vague, negatively worded, and aim to elicit a negative reaction, such as "oh my goodness, how could they!"

The items on the nominees provided real life (I suppose?) events about them and asked how knowing about those events affected my vote.

The start of the survey was straight forward enough, but its bias became very apparent once the questions about the democrat and republican nominees came up. I took the survey on my phone, so the tables were wonky, so I rewrote the items in the following.

First, I immediately knew this was going to be a weird survey because the company texted me but the link was to *the script* that a person on a telephone was supposed to read to me. So this gives me some additional insights into their data collection methods.

I just took a very bias, political survey. And normally, I try to keep politics out of my feed but, as a social scientist, I wanted to walk through why these surveys are so problematic and troubling. I tried my best to remove party language.

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