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Justin Nix
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Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNO. Forever a Gamecock though. Research interests: police, procedural justice, use of force

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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!

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Justin Nix
Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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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.

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/

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.

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?

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

Sam Walker cleared out his office/library a couple years ago, I bet there were some gems in there 😥

Reposted by Scott L. Althaus

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."

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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...
Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers
Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will they say now?
newrepublic.com

"Funding science is actually a badass thing to do"

www.experimental-history.com/p/funding-sc...

Here are those yearly totals broken down by the "threat_type" and "armed_with" fields in WAPO's data.

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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.

Feels like the Pareto Principle is undefeated
Ten percent or so of the public accounts for over half of book-reading
9/ My goal was to vividly contrast the share of adults (y-axis) with the share of books read (x-axis). Merely scatterplotting this wasn't vivid enough for me. And I wanted to show more data than a normal bar chart will! Each bar here has a categorical meaning on top of its dimensions.

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Ten percent or so of the public accounts for over half of book-reading
9/ My goal was to vividly contrast the share of adults (y-axis) with the share of books read (x-axis). Merely scatterplotting this wasn't vivid enough for me. And I wanted to show more data than a normal bar chart will! Each bar here has a categorical meaning on top of its dimensions.

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_...
Police In-Service Training Podcast - Episode 5 | Justin Nix
We discuss procedural justice theory and some of my own research on the topic.
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