I have an article out today about police violence. In a comprehensive assessment of the data available, I show that police killings are rising and it's basically because the police have been engaged in a 20-year-long riot against the republic.https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/06/65309/
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The first problem when looking at police violence is just getting a sense of scale and history. Data on it is so spotty and irregular and the best sources don't have a long history. So most of the research for this was just trying to cobble together a decent time series.pic.twitter.com/yBYepfyl0v
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But while different sources disagree on the scale of police killings, and to a lesser extent on time trends, I think the most reasonable read of the data is that police killings have risen by a LOT in the last 20 years.
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This, despite the fact that assaults against police officers are stable or falling, and killings OF police officers have fallen appreciably.pic.twitter.com/MDQJTRrm1s
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Nor is this that society on the whole is getting more violent. A neat way to get at this is just to see what share of violent deaths of Americans (including active military killed in foreign wars!) are at the hands of police. That share is rising.pic.twitter.com/0Ys0BXjHvO
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Almost one in every ten violent deaths of Americans will occur at the hands of a police officer. That blew my mind when I learned it. This isn't like a rounding error of violent deaths. Police killings aren't just some small episodic thing. They're huge!
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Is that evidence of a large number of police shootings or of a relatively small number of violent deaths overall,
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Stable since the late 1960s?
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