Short summary of a forthcoming article in Journal of Criminal Justice → Does De-Escalation Training Actually Reduce Police Use of Force? New Research Reveals a Critical Gap jnix.netlify.app/post/post33-...

🚨 Work in progress: an automated page on my website that fetches recent academic research on police shootings every Monday. Still fine-tuning but I’m excited to share it! h/t Claude AI for helping me code! jnix.netlify.app/police-shoot...

Looking back on my peer reviews, part III jnix.netlify.app/post/post31-...

Incredible new dataset on police shootings in the US, courtesy of Tom Clark, Adam Glynn, and Michael Leo Owens for their new book “Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America.” It covers all cities with 100K+ residents and includes both fatal & nonfatal outcomes. policeshootingsdata.com/data/

Just accepted for publication! The Minnesota Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI): Lessons learned from a decade of SAKI evaluations jnix.netlify.app/publication/...

www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-... 🫠

George Floyd was killed 5 years ago. Expect news stories in the coming days that wrestle with why police killings continue unabated, despite all the reforms that have been introduced over the last 5-10yrs. jnix.netlify.app/post/post30-...

Exciting news → The School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNO is seeking applications for the Directorship of the Juvenile Justice Institute. More about JJI here: www.unomaha.edu/college-of-p... Apply at this link: unomaha.peopleadmin.com/postings/23816

Interesting new paper in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social. The authors conclude that variation in fatal police shooting rates across agencies is "far from random" and "primarily associated with...differences in crime rates, 911 call rates, officers per capita and the prevalence of guns."

Check out our latest working piece on police shootings - jnix.netlify.app/publication/...

High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....

🚨New article alert: "Moving targets: an examination of departmental deadly force policies and police shootings at vehicles" with @julie-a-ward.bsky.social . Open-access. academic.oup.com/policing/art...

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by *Republicans.* Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

"Funding science is actually a badass thing to do" www.experimental-history.com/p/funding-sc...

According to @washingtonpost.com, 1173 people were fatally shot by on-duty police officers in 2024 - the highest annual total since they began tracking in 2015.

New preprint! jnix.netlify.app/publication/...

Gary LaFree’s Stockholm Address is a great read: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Feels like the Pareto Principle is undefeated

I was recently a guest on a new podcast hosted by @policeinservice.bsky.social (professor of criminal justice at SUNY Buffalo State). We talked about procedural justice theory for ~28 minutes. Police In-Service Training Podcast - Episode 5 jnix.netlify.app/talk/police_...

On Saturday I shared a blog post that got re-shared on a YouTube channel with 1.5m followers. I broke my cardinal rule not to look at the comment section and saw lots of folks upset because (1) they didn't read the post and/or (2) it wasn't about what they wanted it to be about.

Ahead of the new year, I’ve simplified my website - aiming for a more “minimal” feel (at least on the homepage). I hope you’ll visit and explore! jnix.netlify.app

New article in Police Practice & Research - ViCAP usage and viability for sexual assault investigations: Findings from a survey of SAKI sites 50 free copies: tandfonline.com/eprint/XH4JA... Or download our post-print for free as many times as you want: jnix.netlify.app/publication/...

Cool new resource c/o Zach Hamilton and colleagues: The Criminal Justice Base Rate Project. It calculates on a state-by-state basis the average individual's likelihood of interacting with the CJ system. Dashboard: nij.ojp.gov/criminal-jus... Read more here: www.unomaha.edu/news/2024/12...

Murder almost certainly fell at a historic rate in 2024 while reported violent crime fell a little bit and reported property crime fell a lot. My post this week summarizing America's crime trends in 2024: jasher.substack.com/p/crime-in-2...

New from Gallup: "Between 2020 and 2024, Americans' confidence in the U.S. judicial system and courts declined by 24 percentage points, one of the largest country-level drops for the courts measured globally since 2006." news.gallup.com/poll/653897/...

I'm honored to appear on this list alongside my friends Tara and Ben. Tara is an absolute machine and Ben's scholarly legacy lives on.

VR training for officers to use simple checklists during initial burglary investigations looks promising. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

According to the Cline Center's SPOTLITE data, on average from 2014 to 2021, there were 8 incidents involving police use of deadly force per day in the US. There's an upward trend, but it's unclear how much of that reflects increased media coverage. clinecenter.illinois.edu/spotlite

The Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois has done a great service by compiling its SPOTLITE database - including any police uses of firearms (fatal or nonfatal) and other uses of force that result in death. clinecenter.illinois.edu/spotlite

New article out today in Criminology w/Justin Pickett, Amanda Graham & Frank Cullen. 2 national survey experiments showing police diversity reduces Black Americans’ fear of mistreatment. Pre-print version and summary here: jnix.netlify.app/publication/... Published version: doi.org/10.1111/1745...

I need to know how often U.S. police shoot dogs. An oft-cited quote by a DOJ official years ago guessed about ~10,000 per year, or 25-30 *per day.* This would be about 10x the rate at which officers fatally shoot people. Does anyone in my network have any leads?

Fellow criminologists: did you miss the Green Open Access Webinar put on by ASC's Scientific Integrity Committee last month? If so, you can view it here: youtu.be/3X674YIe0us?...

Here’s UNO doc student Trey Bussey discussing our ongoing NIJ-funded research on emotional intelligence in policing. More to come soon! #ASCPhilly23 #ASC2023 (…Do we hashtag over here on bsky?)

Catch us at the ASC Meeting in Philly this week! www.viprlab.org/post/23-11-0...

The DANGER IMPERATIVE pre-order is live! Release day: 1.30.2024. For a summary and sneak peek, check out www.dangerimperative.com. The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing a.co/d/9zzto8C

Received a media inquiry about the effect of Indiana's constitutional carry law on officer-involved shootings in Indianapolis. They've had 11 since August. The only honest answer is that these are statistically rare events, the time series is noisy, and it's just too soon to tell.

New post up! Some preliminary looks at time served in US prisons, confirming with better data results that I found ~10 yrs ago and which have sloooowly been creeping into The Narrative. tl;dr? Most prison terms are short. Almost all longer terms are for violence, not drugs.