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Fair Warning - Lockdowns, police violence, and language trees

Happy Sunday to you. I don't know about you but this week I have been mostly tired all the time, and
Fair Warning
Fair Warning - Lockdowns, police violence, and language trees
By Sophie Warnes • Issue #116 • View online
Happy Sunday to you. I don’t know about you but this week I have been mostly tired all the time, and I seem to be in a convoluted friend/relationship with the man who lives in the flat opposite me. Pandemic really changes everything huh…
Some cool non-data things:

On the home front
Is England ending its lockdown too soon?
This whole thing has been a bit mad to be honest, and it is also worth noting that this is England - I live in Wales where the lockdown restrictions have been tighter and we are still not allowed to as much as you can do in England. That said, I think to all intents and purposes, the lockdown ceased about a fortnight ago when ministers insisted we all use our judgment to protect our families.
www.economist.com  •  Share
I definitely haven’t seen this before. It’s old but interesting and creatively done. There’s a really nice map, and one of those triangle diagrams which look cool (though I have to say I don’t understand it, actually).
www.theguardian.com  •  Share
Over the pond
Mapping Police Violence
This is billed as America’s most comprehensive database of killings by police. Staggering.
mappingpoliceviolence.org  •  Share
ProPublica has published a database of the billions of dollars the federal government is spending on tackling coronavirus. You can look at the companies being bought from, what the government is buying, and how much it’s paying.
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The Economic Pain That the Unemployment Rate Leaves Out
The Economic Pain That the Unemployment Rate Leaves Out
This is a really useful explanation of the difference between statistical unemployment, and what’s really actually happening in the labour market in the US.
www.nytimes.com  •  Share
“Since 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. ”
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Police are consistently whiter than the communities they work in, particularly in urban areas
Police are consistently whiter than the communities they work in, particularly in urban areas
The quite interesting analysis shows that most police forces aren’t representative of the communities they serve.
www.washingtonpost.com  •  Share
Odds and ends
Putting this here mostly because it covers a lot of the world and I also don’t want to front up Fair Warning with really depressing stats. The FT, particularly JBM, has done a really food job of trying to explain what’s going on with the numbers and this (free to read) article is no exception.
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Out in the open - Democracies contain epidemics most effectively
Out in the open - Democracies contain epidemics most effectively
A fascinating angle of the pandemic that I had never really thought about - The Economist has crunched the numbers and says “most data suggest that political freedom can be a tonic against disease”.
www.economist.com  •  Share
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