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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · Jul 16

Police in the U.S. have killed more than 670 people so far in 2025. mappingpoliceviolence.us

Official home of America's most comprehensive database of police violence. Get the facts about police brutality and how to address it.

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · Jul 11

New WSJ article today uses data from the Mapping Police Violence organization to investigate the rapid rise in police violence in rural America. www.wsj.com/us-news/poli...

The Rapid Rise of Killings by Police in Rural America

A 17-year-old shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy on a New Mexico highway last summer was one in a growing number of cases.

www.wsj.com

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · Jul 3

Republicans are about to pass the largest increase in police funding *ever* in the United States, with almost all of that funding going to ICE and agencies that partner with ICE. That’s not even including the additional funding for more incarceration/surveillance.

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · Jun 30

🚨The United States Senate is on the verge of passing a bill that spends TWICE as much $$$ on policing and incarceration as the 1994 Crime Bill. Building detention centers, enhancing surveillance, hiring more ICE agents, funding local police cooperation with mass deportations. 🚨

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · Jun 28

Police have killed more than 600 people so far in 2025. mappingpoliceviolence.us

Mapping Police Violence

Official home of America's most comprehensive database of police violence. Get the facts about police brutality and how to address it.

mappingpoliceviolence.us

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · Jun 26

Murder rates could hit record lows this year, but killings by police are rising. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Murder rates could hit record lows this year, but killings by police are rising

Especially in red states.

www.motherjones.com

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · Jun 26

Murder rates could hit record lows this year, but killings by police are rising. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Murder rates could hit record lows this year, but killings by police are rising

Especially in red states.

www.motherjones.com

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · Jun 19

Police in America have killed more than 560 people so far in 2025. mappingpoliceviolence.us

Mapping Police Violence

Official home of America's most comprehensive database of police violence. Get the facts about police brutality and how to address it.

mappingpoliceviolence.us

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · Jun 18

George W made Colin Powell lie to the UN about centrifuges and weapons of mass destruction in order to invade Iraq. Trump just casually remarks that he “thinks they’re close” to a weapon and apparently that’s enough to go to war with Iran. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more stupid…

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · May 25

Despite these changes, police did not report using less force *overall* and the number of people killed by police actually increased. And that’s just what the police document and disclose. The true number of cases is likely much higher than what’s reported.

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · May 25

Noticeable shifts in police use of force:

1) chemical spray and batons were used much more frequently in 2020, largely against protesters.

2) reported neck restraints declined rapidly in 2020 after many states banned them.

3) K-9 incidents reduced slightly over time.

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · May 25

Total police use of force cases reported annually by 634 police departments across 35% of the U.S. population. By type of police weapon used.
policedata.org

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · May 24

A report my organization Mapping Police Violence recently published at policedata.org finds most agencies with DOJ reform agreements reported reducing police use of force overall.

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · May 24

The Trump administration is abandoning DOJ police reform efforts in 8 locations, including Minneapolis and Louisville. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/05/24/t...

As Trump Abandons Police Reforms, These Local Officials Vow to Press On

The Department of Justice said it’s pulling back from policing changes. Will cities and states have the tools to enforce them?

www.themarshallproject.org

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Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · May 24

you are nearly two times more likely to be killed by a cop in states that voted republican in the last three presidential elections, compared to states that voted democrat

Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · May 24

New article based on data from my organization Mapping Police Violence shows police killings have surged in Red states. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · May 24

As a result of these trends, police killings rates in Red states are now nearly twice as high as the rates in Blue states.

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · May 24

This suggests increasing political polarization of police violence. Police killings were already increasing in more conservative states before George Floyd. But the backlash may have accelerated this trend - while reforms weren’t impactful/transformative enough to offset these increases overall.

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · May 24

Among Red states, police killings rates increased the most in states did not enact police reform/accountability laws. The 30 states that passed post-Floyd police reform laws reduced killings by 6%, the remaining 20 states increased killings by 21%. 18 of these 20 states voted Trump in 2024.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · May 23

Since Florida passed a law cracking down on ballot initiatives last month, organizers say the number of petitions they've been able to collect a week has dropped by 80%: www.wusf.org/courts-law/2...

Bolts reported on how extreme the law is here: boltsmag.org/florida-new-...

A New Crackdown on Ballot Initiatives Unnerves Florida Organizers - Bolts

The new Republican law threatens volunteers with more investigations and criminal punishment, even as Ron DeSantis faces allegations of illegally meddling in ballot measures.

boltsmag.org

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · May 24

New article based on data from my organization Mapping Police Violence shows police killings have surged in Red states. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · May 15

Another private surveillance vendor accessing data from commercial sources and data breaches and packaging it for law enforcement. In this case, the distributed nature of the license plater reader cameras is especially concerning

www.404media.co/license-plat...

License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows

Flock, which has license plate readers (LPRs) all around the country, wants police to be able to “jump from LPR to person,” according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media.

www.404media.co

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · May 16

Police in the U.S. have killed more than 400 people so far this year. mappingpoliceviolence.us

Mapping Police Violence

Official home of America's most comprehensive database of police violence. Get the facts about police brutality and how to address it.

mappingpoliceviolence.us

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · Apr 27

Researchers estimate 219,000 people will die because of DOGE cuts, including 148,000 children. All to save the average American taxpayer $150. www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

The Icarian @the-icarian.federated.press.ap.brid.gy · Apr 27

DOGE says it has saved $160 billion. Those cuts have cost taxpayers $135 billion, one analysis says.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-cuts-cost-135-billion-analysis-elon-musk-department-of-government-efficiency/

DOGE's $160 billion in savings have cost $135 billion, analysis finds

The push by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to slash federal funding will cost taxpayers money, nonpartisan group finds. Here's why.

www.cbsnews.com

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · Feb 2

The Trump administration put an apartheid billionaire in control of US government spending and he is now *literally* going line-by-line cancelling billions of *our own tax dollars* from being given to Black and Brown businesses and communities across the US. This is a white supremacist dictatorship.

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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · Feb 1

Your tax dollars will pass through a South African billionaire who has already accumulated more money *for himself* than any other human being alive. And you’re not really going to know what he does with your money, until it’s too late.

Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · Jan 31

SCOOP: The highest-ranking Treasury official is expected to depart soon after a clash w/ Elon Musk allies over their demands for access to a sensitive internal government payment system, sources say

System controls disbursement of trillions of dollars per yr

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system

A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.

www.washingtonpost.com

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