Historian of crime and punishment in America. Tweets about historical and contemporary issues of race, crime, region, and punishment.
Seattle, WA
Joined November 2017
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@uvapress will release its new book, @Capital_Convict by Henry Kamerling on Nov. 22, 2017. Check it out!
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I keep coming back to this piece for a few reasons: 1) It's premature. We don't have 2024 results yet. 2) It leaves out compelling data showing there's been no erosion (other than from Obama). 3) It's contradictory. 1/
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"We vote for the ones we're best suited to fight."
We're not "co-signing a candidate" but rather "picking our opponent."
A great/smart/thoughtful statement from leftist radical organizers on how to approach voting this Tuesday.
Please watch/share:
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The NYPD spent $150 Million *extra* last year to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They owed just $104,000.
$150 million could buy free fares (at going rate) for 95,000 poor New Yorkers per year.
Instead four people shot, including an officer.
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How copaganda works. An entire article pushed by "law enforcement sources" on a "brazen gangster" repeatedly free to cause havoc. All bc of bail reform. What they fail to mention?
Ahem:
Bail was set. At $20,000. He's currently on Rikers. Nothing at all to do w/ bail reform.
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Caribbeanists? Advice?
If you were going to teach Puerto Rico, D.R., and Haiti to undergraduates with six books, which six books would you choose?
(The course will include Cuba, too, but I don’t so much need recs for that part.)
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Happy International Women’s Day. Be as obstinate and ruthless in your commitment to women’s dignity as misogynists are in their commitment to women’s subordination.
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He caught Sen. Britt in an out and out lie. amazing work. and just sitting there in plain site. really worth your taking a few minutes to watch this video
Sen. Britt, not only an emotionally disregulated freak, also a big fat liar.
tiktok.com/@katzonearth/vide…
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Milton Friedman giving the game away by noting that the ideal immigration system is one that creates a large pool of second-class workers with no rights.
He left out the "bonus" that "illegal immigration" can also be used to pit folks at the bottom of society against each other.
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Since I started following Portland's settlement w/ the DOJ, I've heard claims in court that the same officers use force at a higher rate than their peers, year after year.
I waded through PPB's data to confirm that trend - and started asking questions:
opb.org/article/2024/02/02/p…
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In the United States, police killed more people in 2023 than any year in more than a decade. Why do continue to treat this as reformable? (data from mappingpoliceviolence.us/)
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I want to tell you a story about body cameras and *Derek Chauvin*
What Chauvin did to George Floyd, kneeling on his neck, was his move.
He had done to others.
It was all recorded by body cams.
But the footage was kept secret.
And Chauvin was left unpunished
[short THREAD]
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“Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They're wrong.
Almost 80 percent of Americans, and 92 percent of Republicans, think crime has gone up. It actually fell in 2023.”
Health & safety is important to us all. Why we need to follow facts. Read: nbcnews.com/news/us-news/peo… – at El Segundo, CA
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It’s impossible to overstate how much good work is being produced within critical prison studies/history of the carceral state. All these arrived in the last few weeks. Congrats @lydiajean8 @orisanmi @mguariglia @EmilyMBrooksPhD
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Fascism doesn't mean "things I don't like." It also doesn't mean "anything authoritarian" or "any attempt to limit free speech." It is a particular far-right, mass-based political phenomenon born in reaction to crises of liberal democracy and capitalism. 1/
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"Let the Convicts Speak: A Critical Conversation of the Ongoing Language Debate in Convict Criminology" by - Ortiz, Cox, Kavish, & Tietjen in Criminal Justice Studies
#Criminology #Stigma #Identity
#OpenAccess Version:
concrim.org/wp-content/uploa…
We are proud to announce the recipients of 2023 Outstanding Article Award (Let the Convicts Speak: A Critical Conversation... language debate in CC), @Ortiz_PhD, @TCNJ. This award recognizes outstanding scholarship in the form of an article in CC. Congrats Dr. Ortiz!
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1. There are still a lot of people with very large microphones talking about the violent "crime wave" sweeping the United States
But yesterday, the FBI released nationwide crime data for 2022 that tells a very different story
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What is the function of our criminal justice system?
NEW:
Racial disparities are a defining feature of our prison and jail systems, but getting data on these disparities for specific states can be a challenge. We’ve just published the most recent 50-state data on our website, along with 100 new graphics:
prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/0…
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FIRE wrote today to New College of Florida after trustee Christopher Rufo bragged on Twitter this week that a visiting history professor’s contract wouldn’t be renewed due to his “left-wing” teaching, views, and criticism of university leadership.
That’s unconstitutional.
The problem with economics is the problem with capitalisms!
@equalityAlec exposes how one’s core ideological predispositions impact your approach to understanding the nature of a problem, which in turn shapes your solutions. We can see how this plays out in academic disciplines: economists often start w assumption capitalism is necessary
