Busting police brutality myths: Race, junk science, and big data | DeRay Mckesson

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: http://bit.ly/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink DeRay Mckesson: A lot of people don’t know is that any number you’ve ever heard about police violence comes through the aggregate of media reports. If you get killed in this country and a newspaper doesn’t write about it, it’s not covered on like a blog or like a TV or something, you literally don’t exist in the data set. The federal government doesn’t collect information about police killings in any systemic way. We can tell you the rainfall in Missouri in 1830, and we can’t actually tell you how many people got killed, like, as a hard fact last year. We don’t know it. What we know is like the aggregate of media reports, these incredible activists years ago set up these two big databases that essentially called like an advanced Google alerts of like police killings, and that is the source data for everything that you’ve ever seen on police killings. Some of the biggest databases that you might have heard of are like the Washington Post Database, fatal encounters killed by police. We created Mapping Police Violence to create the single stop database that had the most comprehensive data about police killings. If you think about the Washington Post Database, for instance, they only have killings by officers on duty that use a gun. So say for example an officer goes home and runs somebody over with their car, like that’s not counted. Say somebody is on duty and the officer runs you over with their car, not accounted. Eric Garner’s death is not in the Washington Post Database. Why? Because he wasn’t killed with a gun. So we wanted to say that like whether you got killed by a taser, a chokehold, whether the officer was at home and like killed his wife off-duty, we consider all of those to be symptoms of the same sort of root problem. So that’s why we created the database. And what we know is that, left to their own devices, that police will just never report this data. There are times where the state of Florida has reported zero police killings in entire spans of years, and you’re like “We know that’s not true, like we could just look at the news and see it wasn’t zero!” So the data actually is really important for us to help locate what the problem is and what the solution should be. And the last thing I’ll say is that we have to figure out how to start talking about police violence beyond death. So we know that the police inflict damage in communities in ways like sexual assault, verbal abuse, those sort of things, and the data we have most readily available is about death, but because we only focus on death with the data, we’re losing how the police impact women, how the police impact LGBT communities, like any other ways that don’t result in death but are still really bad—and we have to figure out how to do that. One of the limitations is that most police departments definitely don’t make that data publicly available or don’t collect it in any systemic way. So you think about police departments like Baltimore where so much of the data is on paper, you’re like “Well, who is sitting down analyzing ten million records on paper? Nobody right now,” and that becomes like a challenge. So what we found were a couple myth busters. We found things like there’s this idea that community violence and police violence are related, so in communities where there’s just a lot of violence people say that “the police just have to be there, because the communities are violent and so the police must be there. And because the police must be there it’s just more likely that they’ll probably engage in violence against communities.” And we found that that’s just not true. There are places where there’s a lot of community violence and almost no police violence, and the inverse is also true that there’s no real relationship between community violence and police violence. We also found is that black people are actually more likely to be unarmed than any other race of people who are killed by police.

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Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: http://bit.ly/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Martin Amis: Salman Rushdie has argued that you can’t be—you know, it’s idiotic to say you’re above politics, because politics is all around you and above you and beneath you. I was resistant to that idea, but it’s clearly true, isn’t it, that it’s very hard to imagine a piece of writing or a longish speech that doesn’t have political bearing on us all. So I think neutrality is a chimera. It’s not there. It’s a mythical creature. And evenhandedness is its own trap as well. I mean if the press had not been so “evenhanded” we would have President Clinton and not President Trump. Some things are so clearly wrong, so unshirkably ill-advised that I think being evenhanded about it is ridiculous. What do you do with Alex Jones and those people who harass the bereaved parents of Sandy Hook or Parkland, Florida, and say – and threaten them with death and say they’re worthless—what is the phrase – emergency actors, crisis actors. Now I’m not going to sit down and say well let’s go through your points one after the other. And we hear a great deal about being respectful to white supremacists. I’m not going to be respectful. I haven’t got it in me to be respectful of that. Some things are malum per se, evil in themselves, and the "crisis actor" business is one of them.

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Why toxic relationships are so draining. And when to break them off. | Shaka Sengor

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: http://bit.ly/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Shaka Senghor: I think the thing that causes relationships to become toxic are many-fold. I will start by saying: pessimism. Being around people who are pessimistic about life is to me one of the greatest obstacles that stands in the way of greatness, success—whether it’s in the workspace, whether it’s in your personal life. Self-pity, people who tend to wallow in self-pity are to me some of the most toxic, especially if you have close proximity to them—intimate relations or work spaces—because that energy begins to translate, and it dims the room and it’s just really unsettling. To me I think it’s one of the things that we don’t evaluate enough in our lives, are the people that we allow to share our mental space. And when you’re allowing somebody to share your mental space you have to think of it like a pristine house. So you have this beautiful home, and when you welcome people to your beautiful home you will want them to treat it the way that you treat it and care for it. So you wouldn’t want them to walk in with some muddy boots and just come in trashing the place, but we don’t think about that when it comes to welcoming people into the interior of our minds and our hearts. And so a lot of times we’ll have people in our lives who wear those mental muddy boots and they’ll just come in and trample all around our mental space and we don’t even think nothing of it because we want to be a “nice person,” and we don’t want to say things that may come across as mean. But I think it’s important to recognize the people that you welcome into your life, recognize the quality, the shared value systems and realize when they’re being hurtful or damaging to your own sense of peace and confidence and mental well being. I think toxic relationships are some of the most time-consuming relationships. You’re constantly trying to correct behavior, you’re constantly assessing yourself based on those relationships. I grew up in an abusive household and the abuse that probably had the biggest impact was the things that was said to me and how I replay those things over and over in my mind. So you spend so much time in your own head second-guessing yourself, doubting yourself, and you can't be as productive and as successful as you're capable of as long as you're allowing that energy to take residence in your mind. And it impacts every aspect of your life; you’re not showing up as your full self; you can’t be happy. And even with the idea of happiness I think that we are delusional about what happiness is. It’s not this sustained thing, but it’s access to a part of ourselves that allows us to have joy. And so when you think about what do you need in order to have that it has to be fulfillment. And you can’t have a fulfillment in your life and in your workspace as long as you have toxic people occupying those spaces. So I think the way that you prevent a relationship from becoming toxic is you have to set real boundaries. Those boundaries start with: what are the expectations? What are the rules of engagement? What is acceptable behavior? What is acceptable treatment? And that starts with you setting the standards for yourself. How do you show up in your own life? How do you treat yourself? What do you expect from yourself? And that extends outwardly. And what I found is that when you’re dealing with people who are toxic, sometimes they don’t even realize they’re toxic because they’re just repeating the cycle of hurt people hurting people. And even though all toxic relationships don’t show up as necessarily intentional hurt, it can be intentional hindrance or unintentional hindrance. And so to me you have to set those boundaries very early. And once a relationship has already become toxic you have to make a choice in terms of what do you value more: do you value your peace of mind and sense of purpose more than you value the relationship?

Who is getting rich off you? The insidious big data economy. | Rita Gunther McGrath

Where is your data now? Follow the money. - Your day to day actions on the Internet give businesses personal data that turns you into an ad target – or the opposite. - Facebook, for example, allowed landlords to block demographic groups such as African Americans, LGBTQ, or disabled people from seeing housing ads – a violation of the 1968 Fair Housing Act. - Data brokers have crossed a line, but the laws that should regulate them are outdated; just look at the billion-dollar data deal between 23andMe and Big Pharma. Is it ethical? Rita Gunther McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, is one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth. She is the author of the best-selling book The End of Competitive Advantage (https://goo.gl/77RdHE) (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013) and the upcoming book Seeing Around Corners (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Sept. 2019). Read more at BigThink.com: http://bit.ly/2BhUX7z Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: http://bit.ly/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink A conservative estimate of how much your personal information is worth to these data brokers is on the order of $240 a year for each of us, for millions and millions of people. And that adds up to a really, really big number. And a lot of that data, right, and the advertising against that data is just getting sucked out of conventional sources and going right into the pockets of the big data brokers like Facebook and Google and even Amazon, also a whole bevy of smaller data brokers-- you know, people who run little websites like, you know, Housekeepers Like Me and, you know, do you have insurance, and are you in the market for a new car? And people willingly hand over this information, which then gets aggregated and copied across databases and then put into this package which advertisers can then use to target you. I think we're just at that very early stages where a few people are sounding the alarm. But that has not spread out to the masses yet. I mean, all those people posting about their grandkids on Facebook don't understand...

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