Fabio Rojas has argued for most institutions reopening in the face of COVID-19, on the grounds that COVID mortality rates are quite low for the non-elderly. A number of commenters on his posted legitimately raised the issue of people with serious, long-lasting complications from COVID. It’s just not a matter of a few people dying …
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Quantifying police killings part 2
Last month the Police Policy Initiative disseminated a blog post putting police killings in the United States in international context: To its credit, the PPI included a list of sources for its numbers. One thing that caught my eye was that the number of police killings for the United States comes from the …
Quantifying police killings
One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by the police. Patrick Ball, Granta …the Washington Post’s database of fatal police shootings showed 14 unarmed Black victims and 25 unarmed white victims in 2019. Heather MacDonald, USA Today Someone turning to data to try to quantify the problem of police killings (or police brutality …