Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNO.
Forever a Gamecock though.
Research interests: police, procedural justice, use of force
Forever a Gamecock though.
Research interests: police, procedural justice, use of force
Police shootings per year, by outcome, included in this dataset. Keep in mind that upward trend is most likely a reflection of better record keeping.
June 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Police shootings per year, by outcome, included in this dataset. Keep in mind that upward trend is most likely a reflection of better record keeping.
Where does that upper bound of 12000+ come from? Never seen an estimate that high with any publicly available data. Unless you’re counting people police nonfatally shot?
May 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Where does that upper bound of 12000+ come from? Never seen an estimate that high with any publicly available data. Unless you’re counting people police nonfatally shot?
Unarmed killings are the rarest of these statistically rare outcomes, so it’s harder to pull a signal from the year-to-year noisiness. Plus, more undetermined cases in later years which mucks up the comparisons.
May 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Unarmed killings are the rarest of these statistically rare outcomes, so it’s harder to pull a signal from the year-to-year noisiness. Plus, more undetermined cases in later years which mucks up the comparisons.
Julie, in your work with GVA, what was your sense of reporting disparities in rural v. urban areas, i.e., how likely is it that the upward trend is mostly rural areas being more likely to report on police killings now vs. 10 years ago?
May 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Julie, in your work with GVA, what was your sense of reporting disparities in rural v. urban areas, i.e., how likely is it that the upward trend is mostly rural areas being more likely to report on police killings now vs. 10 years ago?
Sam Walker cleared out his office/library a couple years ago, I bet there were some gems in there 😥
May 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Sam Walker cleared out his office/library a couple years ago, I bet there were some gems in there 😥
Full text: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sources of organizational variability in fatal police shootings in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Neil et al. examine factors associated with variation in fatal police shooting rates across 2,727 US agencies and find that this variation is most strongly associated with differences in social contex...
www.nature.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Full text: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here are those yearly totals broken down by the "threat_type" and "armed_with" fields in WAPO's data.
February 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Here are those yearly totals broken down by the "threat_type" and "armed_with" fields in WAPO's data.