dtha15.bsky.social
Professor studying police history, police reform, policy responses to serious mental illness, ethics. Richard Olney & John Dewey stan. Dad to a danseur and a goalie; married to a historic preservationist
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i find that many people, including (and even especially) progressive people, are often offended by the decentralization of american policing, and they want to consolidate departments into regional, state, or even federal amalgams. i do not think they are thinking this through
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they are trying in St Louis www.kcur.org/politics-ele...
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getting basket envy. that pattern they leave on the doughs! š
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i complained about this (among other things) as it arises in the huge āprocedural justiceā literature in policing. But the only part people acknowledge is the internal validity part; the rest just gets ignored. Itās good to see a general phil sci piece about the issue, to raise general awareness.
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i know right? the proactive/reactive distinction isā¦overrated
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did you know that ~half of street stops in nyc are responses to 911 calls? (chicago doesnāt gather the same data but clearly a nontrivial number of street stops are 911-driven there too.) some āproactiveā policingā¦
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i tried to download that a couple months ago! but it took too long. (i want to merge it with the SQF data but thatās probably infeasible)
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there is a section of the Regulatory Impact Assessment for the Prison Rape Elimination Act that wrings its hands about whether & how to account for the publicās āwillingness to payā for sexual violence against prisoners. It is a disgusting reductio ad absurdum for Cost-Benefit Analysis
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lest i sound like a prude, i think the graffiti basement is really cool! (only mentioned the āobscene & disturbingā bit to emphasize how anything-goes the vibe is down thereā¦.but not *quite* anything, is the pointā¦.)
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could be (i think underwriting does consider some hiring practices). but ultimately depends on criteria for civil judgments. insurance cos want to minimize successful lawsuits, not misconduct per se. misconduct isnāt reasonably foreseeable if work history data vanishes <eddie-murphy-taps-head.gif>
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This is not a fucking joke. These people are ghouls.
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i've been on a richard olney kick for a while, and the man uses a LOT of herbs...
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my latest project is my vinegar barrel š
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Iāve had enough trouble keeping my herbs going in the winterā¦but who knows, maybe it would look nice in the living room!
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i have some kaffir leaves in the freezer.....maybe the best solution, here in michigan
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wait, in queens???
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that is the best feeling, making something out-of-the ordinary with ingredients on hand!
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it shouldn't scare them. it should disgust them, infuriate them, outrage them, mobilize them
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thatās what is so lit about scottenās letter. that person immediately becomes āsomeone who was enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motionā
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honestly cannot believe it. i thought the guy seemed awful. but this is mindblowing.
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the changes are basically an Olmsted violation š”
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Back in November I worried about him more than anyone else. I just hoped they would find a nice spot for him at NASA, where he could be contained. But here we are.
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One thing that makes it hard to meet this moment is the oversimplified conception of democracy that seems to dominate contemporary thought. It makes it too easy for too many people to fall into the "political leader as CEO" mindset -- or at least to fail to see just how dangerous that mindset is.
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right itās an insane system. and it drastically underselects for people who actually just snuck across the border (so generally arenāt in the ice database at all), overselects for people who overstayed their legally acquired visa (which is why their prints ARE in the database)
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i assume the tech makes it easier and easier every yearā¦but the key bottleneck remains whether they have the manpower to show up at any jail in a few hoursā notice
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also
repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol115/i...
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One more reason police departments should be minimizing custodial arrests for minor offenses
www.theiacp.org/sites/defaul...
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The full article (which is one of those pieces whose author seemed to find more fascinating than the rest of the world did; maybe youāre familiar with the phenomenon, fellow scholars!) appeared in Law and History Review, here:
websites.umich.edu/~dthacher/fi...