A Gawker article caught my eye this weekend. It is entitled: “What I’ve Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings.” In it, I expected to learn about different state and national agencies and watchdog groups that do just that. Much to my dismay, no one really does. That is, with the exception of … Continue reading Tracking Police-involved Killings in the US
Evidence: Is It Really Overrated? July 4th, 2014 at 11:44 am By Jared Bernstein A few weeks ago, during the evidentiary dustup between Piketty and the FT, I quasi-favorably quoted a Matt Yglesias line re empirical evidence being overrated. A number of readers were understandably unhappy with that assertion, arguing that they come here to … Continue reading Jared Bernstein: Evidence: Is It Really Overrated? | More on Evidence
By Matt Ford After a seven-week freeze following Clayton Lockett’s botched execution in Oklahoma, three states executed three death-row inmates in less than 24 hours last week. Georgia, Missouri, and Florida had tangled with defense lawyers for months over the secrecy surrounding their lethal-injection cocktails and where they were obtained, a key issue in Lockett’s … Continue reading Race and the Execution Chamber |The Atlantic
