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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Aug 19

Looking back on my peer reviews, part III

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Looking Back on My Peer Reviews III | Justin Nix

I recently surpassed 200 manuscripts reviewed, and you know what that means: time to look back on how many manuscripts I’ve been asked to review, the recommendations I’ve made, and how long it general...

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Jun 5

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.

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Jun 5

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.
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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Jun 4

Just accepted for publication!

The Minnesota Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI): Lessons learned from a decade of SAKI evaluations

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The Minnesota Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI): Lessons learned from a decade of SAKI evaluations | Justin Nix

Here we describe the processes and quantify the outcomes of the SAKI project in Anoka County, MN – a mid-sized suburban/rural jurisdiction – and make comparisons to the three seminal SAKI evaluation p...

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · May 30

www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-... 🫠

Chesapeake police lowers age requirement to address staffing shortages

The Chesapeake Police Department says the ideal candidate is someone who is 19 and a half or close to turning 21 by the time they complete the police academy.

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · May 26

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?

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · May 24

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.

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · May 22

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?

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · May 21

George Floyd was killed 5 years ago. Expect news stories in the coming days that wrestle with why police killings continue unabated, despite all the reforms that have been introduced over the last 5-10yrs.

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Police Killings Still Trending Upward post-Floyd | Justin Nix

This weekend marks 5 years since George Floyd was killed by Officer Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police Department. Expect to see some news stories in the coming weeks wrestling with the question ...

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · May 16

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

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · May 9

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

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · May 9

FWIW I responded to Jacob’s new concerns here:

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Responding to Kang-Brown (again) | Justin Nix

Background In his latest commentary on our research note, Jacob Kang-Brown (JKB) raises six concerns (some old, some new). For what it’s worth he also makes clear his point of view regarding the “ques...

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Apr 25

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Reflecting on My Promotion! | Justin Nix

A few weeks ago I got my letter from the Senior Vice Chancellor approving my promotion to Professor (beginning next term). It’s a pretty surreal feeling. I’ve worked hard, but I’ve also benefited from...

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Apr 21

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...

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Apr 21

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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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Apr 9

Check out our latest working piece on police shootings - jnix.netlify.app/publication/...

99 Problems but a Clean IV Ain’t One: Measuring and Studying Officer-Involved Shootings | Justin Nix

Historically, a lack of comprehensive data on police shootings has hindered a nuanced understanding of this critical issue. However, in the past decade, the research landscape rapidly evolved with the...

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Mar 31

High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....

High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding

Prior research on racial profiling has found that in encounters with law enforcement, minorities are punished more severely than white civilians. Less is known about the causes of these encounters and...

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Mar 14

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Corrigendum to “When police pull back: Neighborhood‐level effects of de‐policing on violent and property crime, a research note”

Click on the article title to read more.

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Mar 7

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DM-FS: A Comprehensive Database on Death-Modulated Fatal Shootings - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - DM-FS: A Comprehensive Database on Death-Modulated Fatal Shootings

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John Shjarback @shjarback-ccj.bsky.social · Mar 6

🚨New article alert: "Moving targets: an examination of departmental deadly force policies and police shootings at vehicles" with @julie-a-ward.bsky.social . Open-access.
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Moving targets: an examination of departmental deadly force policies and police shootings at vehicles

Abstract. The current study applies variation in departmental deadly force policies by examining constraining and obligating language for a sub-set of poli

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Feb 19

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:
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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?

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Feb 18

"Funding science is actually a badass thing to do"

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Feb 11

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

Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Feb 11

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.

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Feb 4

New preprint!

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The Minnesota Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI): Lessons learned from a decade of SAKI evaluations | Justin Nix

Here we describe the processes and quantify the outcomes of the SAKI project in Anoka County, MN – a mid-sized suburban/rural jurisdiction – and make comparisons to the three seminal SAKI evaluation p...

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Jan 31

Gary LaFree’s Stockholm Address is a great read: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Understanding what violent street crime, globalization, and ice cream have in common

Research Summary In recent years, nutrition researchers have found that ice cream may have as many health benefits as low-fat milk or yoghurt for those with diabetes or at risk of diabetes. Nonethel...

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Jan 22

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'Split-second decision': Supreme Court returns to the question of police killings

The court will hear arguments this week over the “moment of the threat doctrine,” which addresses how much time can be taken into consideration when police kill people.

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Jan 21

Feels like the Pareto Principle is undefeated

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · Jan 21

Ten percent or so of the public accounts for over half of book-reading

David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · Jan 21

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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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · Jan 21

Ten percent or so of the public accounts for over half of book-reading

David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · Jan 21

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.

A bar/area plot with the title "20% of American adults do 75% of the country's reading"

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Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social · Jan 16

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.

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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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