Great explainer, per usual. Using Jeff's data (from sample of states), one can see that 6.8% of cleared murders (and 4% of all murders) are cleared by the death of the offender (under exceptional clearance). This is one way of gauging just how at-risk these individuals are.
From US Attorney Sassoon’s letter to AG Bondi. Sassoon clerked for Scalia.
I believe the phrase you’re looking for is The Art of the Deal
2024 likely to go down as having one of the lowest number of crimes per capita in half a century.
U.S. deaths attributable to alcohol (either fully or partially) up 29% to 178,000/year. 117k from chronic causes (incl cirrhosis, heart disease, cancer, etc.) and 61k from acute causes (incl poisoning, accidents, etc.). www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Struck by this contextual paragraph in WaPo's coverage of the Abundant Life shooting wapo.st/49ERsah
As @johngramlich.bsky.social highlights, this percent reduction is very large by historic/international standards: bsky.app/profile/john...
Three charts shows the correlation between survey respondents' confidence in the job performance of the leadership of the country and their confidence in the courts, during the Obama, Trump, and Biden presidencies. Confidence in courts falls dramatically for both those who do and don't express confidence in nation's leadership during Biden presidency.
New Gallup data shows collapsing confidence in US courts, presumably reflecting increasing R/D agreement that rule of law is under assault news.gallup.com/poll/653897/...
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