Yeah like black people live in cities with corrupt (often black) cops and DAs?
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I’m open to more innocent interpretations I just haven’t thought of them
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Replying to @toad_spotted @relicn0cer and
what sounds funny to me is that smack in the middle of the Obama/Holder inquisition, all of the police depts with a nice zipf-y distribution thru 2011 suddenly start fabricating evidence to create an anomaly in the data where none existed under GWB, etc
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @toad_spotted and
it seems more likely that the courts stopped keeping track of amounts greater than 280g once that no longer affected the likelihood of a short sentence
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @toad_spotted and
that's also possible but seems unlikely to be good from a prosecutorial standpoint? also cops love talking about their huge hauls
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Replying to @eigenrobot @toad_spotted and
do you see how tiny the numbers we’re talking about are? Less than 1 in 1000 cases are part of this 280g-threshold bump we’re talking about. This could easily be a coding error, or like 5 judges who wanted cases that trigger the statutory minimum classified this way...
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @eigenrobot and
Okay and here’s what’s REALLY bizarre: why is there no spike at *279*? You’d think that pre-police “tampering”, if the new law created any thresholds at all it would be dudes carrying 300g, 400g scaling it down to 275g. That doesn’t appear at all -
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @toad_spotted and
maybe those are they ones they're kicking over 280 idk why are you arguing this absolute hypothetical so hard idgi
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Replying to @eigenrobot @toad_spotted and
reply to you is “being polite”, taking social science seriously is something toad and rec do too, I can tag you out if you want
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naw, I can mute. ty, kind of cranky and think we're past the point of diminishing returns
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Replying to @eigenrobot @toad_spotted and
np - i am in complete sympathy
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