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  1. SummerMadness

    How Do the Police Actually Spend Their Time?

    How Do the Police Actually Spend Their Time? A review of publicly available data in three areas reveals that much of an officer’s job revolves around handling routine calls rather than violent crime.
  2. SummerMadness

    Journalists expose cases of police brutality, misconduct

    Journalists expose cases of police brutality, misconduct This is a very timely release because over the weekend, a police use of force database was also released to the public. Transparency and compiling these statistics is the start to police reform. The 25 police departments that used kicks...
  3. SummerMadness

    In a first, FBI to begin collecting national data on police use of force

    In a first, FBI to begin collecting national data on police use of force
  4. SummerMadness

    Immigration Myths and Global Realities

    Immigration Myths and Global Realities
  5. SummerMadness

    The Relationship Between Structural Racism and Black-White Disparities in Fatal Police Shootings

    Police Shootings Reflect Structural Racism The Relationship Between Structural Racism and Black-White Disparities in Fatal Police Shootings at the State Level (In press)
  6. DeerGlow

    Statistics and the Bible

    So my pre-cal teacher told us this story today in class: "When I took statistics, [teacher] gave us one set of numbers and told us to make it say one thing. Then she told us to make them say the opposite, but just gave us the same numbers." This makes me think of the false teachers, and why...
  7. P

    On the size of denominations and communions

    In another thread, I was enjoying a good but I expect offtopic conversation with my friends @ViaCrucis and @BobRyan about denominational size: Picking up where we left off, it might be interesting to both resume that discussion about the relative sizes of denominations and communions, and...