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Six: Jennifer Doleac on criminal justice reform

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Is There Evidence That These Eight Changes Will Reduce Police Killings?

There's a police reform organization that many people might have heard of called a eight can't wait. They've been promoting a kind of eight point platform of stuff that sounds pretty sensible to me. The problem is they sold it as an evidence based, data driven approach. And so i just, you know, as a researcher, i recognized the appeal of being able say that your solution is evidence base and data driven. Unfortunately, we see that those words used so often in context where i think the evidence is quite weak.

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