“How much confetti do you want to order?” Celtics Ownership: “Yes”

per 1m current residents: 27.65 Boston Celtics 11.76 Minneapolis Lakers 6.66* Miami Heat 4.83 Detroit Pistons 3.39 San Antonio Spurs 3.13 Los Angeles Lakers 2.25 Chicago Bulls 0.12 Golden State Warriors** *I did not make this up **you chose the team name

$150k grants to improve community supervision. APPA REFORM Alliance Brian Lovins Right On Crime Arnold Ventures Niskanen Center Correctional Leaders Assn American Correctional Association

Boston gonna Boston

Sacramento Superior Court reduced nonappearance by 8.2 percentage points (16% decrease on baseline) by mailing reminders. Cost for 15k reminders: $10,973. Benefit: $3,200,000. Benefit-cost ratio 290:1

Senator Cotton’s home state of Arkansas has a law against corporate price gouging. I’m curious if he thinks his state has turned into Venezuela as a result?

A remarkable piece of investigative reporting. Kudos to NH Public Radio. Also a very powerful site: ydcpodcast.org. Content is graphic and disturbing, but critical to expose.

the european mind cannot comprehend lil jon doing georgia's roll call

States that are actually ~commonwealths~ when introducing themselves during the state roll call.

It's a good rhetorical point, and similarly was (and should have been) made when Congress rolled back DC's RCCA. But it also buys into idea that stiffer penalties lead to less crime, for which there's no evidence in this case. x.com/thejakehorowit…

Crime is the second most-common topic that Americans see in their local news, according to a new Pew Research Journalism study. And Americans who consume more crime news are more concerned about crime affecting them personally. pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

🔽 A sneak peek facility profile from the Public Safety Lab Jail Data Initiative's beta site, highlighting some changes we hope to make to our web scraping and data architecture beta.jaildatainitiative.org/profiles/10000…