statistics

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.

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...

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

Immigration Myths and Global Realities

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

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...

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...