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@samswey

Black Activist. Data Scientist & Policy Analyst. Stanford Alum. Creator, Police Scorecard | Mapping Police Violence. Co-Founded Campaign Zero samswey1@gmail.com

New York, NY
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    5 Oct 2019

    For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what you need to know - based on the facts and data. A thread. (1/x)

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    10 hours ago

    "A Black woman having a baby in America is like a Black man in a traffic stop." It's that lethal. A stunning reality lifted up in the phenomenal documentary, "Aftershock," screening now at Sundance. See it if you can. Heartbreaking. Infuriating.

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    9 hours ago

    2021 was one of the deadliest years for police violence in recent history, and we don't even know who most of the killers were. This report breaks down how these killings happened and why it's so important to change policing in this country:

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    16 hours ago

    Police departments are spending public funds to send cops to a "training" conference featuring Tomi Lahren, Dave "Cops have the best sex of their lives after they kill people" Grossman, some UFC guy, and some other cops fired for misconduct.

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    13 hours ago

    The white establishment maintains a vice-like grip over the political autonomy of Black ppl. SCOTUS has several far right judges. 2 were rammed thru against traditional procedure, 1 w/o a full vetting, 1 on a campaign against voting rights. But now they demand a “moderate” BW.

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  6. 12 hours ago

    “Black-majority districts decreased by five seats while white-majority districts grew by eight seats across the 28 states that have completed congressional maps.”

    “Across the country, the White population has shrunk over past decade as minority communities have swelled, according to the 2020 Census. Yet, rapid growth of Latinos and Blacks is not reflected in any of the new maps passed so far, except California’s…”
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    18 hours ago

    Domestic incidents *can be* highly dangerous for police officers - but the same is true of any incident they respond to. But if you look at the denominator, they’re actually *less* likely to result in officer injuries or deaths.

    Domestic incidents are highly dangerous for police officers, experts say
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    19 hours ago

    Important 🧵. Those who cynically oppose justice reform cherry pick examples of correlations between a reform being enacted and some single salient crime occurring. But in Boston violent crimes in aggregate plummeted after reform and a rigorous study suggests it was *causal.

    One of the things we discussed today on the show, is how odd it is Boston is not used more as an example in the debate over reform DAs causing increases in crime. In 2019, Boston saw a large increase in misdemeanor nonprosecution, from 54% to 78% per .
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    Jan 24

    it’s cool how the govt told us raising the minimum wage would make a burger be $20 and now a burger is $20. but min wage is the same

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    Jan 25

    Redmond cop who shot and killed unarmed woman laying on the floor had been fired 14 months earlier by Whatcom County sheriff's office for poor performance (via ) via

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    Jan 25

    “Mistook”

    Black man in Nevada spent six days in jail after police mistook him for suspect with same name who is white and twice his age, lawsuit says
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    Jan 25

    The evolution of this story has been quite a journey.

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    Jan 22

    Black female prosecutors have an outsized impact on whether police officers are charged after deadly shootings despite holding only 1% of elected prosecutor roles nationwide, data by Mapping Police Violence show.

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    Jan 25

    We also looked at Utah’s mental health problems and learned more than 40% of police shootings between 2010-2020 involved someone who was in mental crisis. Some thought our numbers were probably an undercount

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    Jan 24

    🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that Alabama’s new congressional map likely violates the Voting Rights Act and orders a new map to be drawn within the next 14 days.

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  16. Jan 24

    Legacy admissions are the largest form of affirmative action across America’s most competitive universities. Arguments and lawsuits alleging unfair preferences in admissions that ignore legacy admissions are ignorant at best, racist at worst.

    This is interesting, argues that the scale of the legacy advantage in Harvard admissions has risen steadily over the past twenty years to keep the legacy share of the class constant.
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    Jan 24

    Last year was the 11th *lowest for murders in NYC in 60 years. It was lower than 9 out of the 12 years of Bloomberg and lower than every year of Giuliani, Dinkins, Koch, Beame and Lindsay.

    “I’m ready for the battle,” says describing the city’s increase in violence as a “battle.” It is worth noting that NYC remains the safest big city in America and the number we are seeing look nothing like what the city saw in year’s past
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    Jan 24

    This! ⬇️ Police violences decreases the health and safety of entire communities.

    The simplest explanation for this is that the high-profile murder of civilians by police traumatizes and destabilizes communities, which leads to increases in crime. Police violence periodically generates crime in communities.
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  19. Jan 24

    The solution is to stop police violence. To “pull back” further on policing and establish meaningful accountability mechanisms/deterrents to prevent the catastrophe of police violence from recurring. Otherwise it’s a vicious cycle of violence in and against communities.

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  20. Jan 24

    If police “pulling back” was the problem, we’d see similar crime increases when police do the same thing in other contexts (labor disputes, etc). We don’t. Because it’s not about “pulling back” it’s about the proven fact police violence damages the health of entire communities.

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    Jan 24

    Someone explain to me how schools admitting white legacy students because their parents & grandparents were admitted during Jim Crow & antebellum America is not a modern day perpetuation of Jim Crow white supremacy?

    Harvard University admits more white legacy students than the total Black student population but look which “race-based affirmative action policies” are being challenged.
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