Updated: April 28, 2021 On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol building was breached by demonstrators as part of an attempt by supporters of President Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Over one hundred law enforcement officers and an unknown number of demonstrators were injured, and four demonstrators and one police officer were killed. […]
Latest update: April 23, 2021 Original post: July 1, 2020 Since the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 by Minneapolis police and the resulting waves of protests nationwide, tPP has fielded many requests to help provide a count of resulting felony cases. The early summer protests, riots, and sporadic uprisings resulted in over […]
Hello world! Welcome to our brand new site! As we transition away from our prior institutional host, we felt it was important to host and manage our own website, and here it is! There are still some broken links and other cosmetic fixes, but bear with us as we complete this change and get ready […]
As the Prosecution Project has grown and changed, it has benefitted from utilizing the classroom. We have used the shared space as a laboratory, workshop, assembly line, and debate stage for developing our processes and concepts. Nearly each semester we have been able to host a twice a week class to get students in the […]
Today, Miami University’s ‘Top Stories’ featured an article about our team entitled “Prosecution Project examines how sociopolitical crimes are prosecuted.”
In December 2019, tPP was contacted by an individual with the United States Army War College seeking assistance with data. This individual asked if we could provide a number of measures of criminal defendants in order to compare defendants with and without military histories. After a few emails and a phone call to ensure we […]
We’re very pleased to see our past analysis mentioned in this recent article by the Philadelphia Inquirer, “Republican death threats are undermining our democracy.” We’re always happy to work with journalists, academics, investigators, policy makers and practitioners who can make use of our data. Our goal remains the creation of a free, open source platform for […]
Reflecting back on the quick scraping exercise employing the Violence Project’s Mass Shooter Database (detailed in a previous blog post), I was puzzled by one thing. In thinking through my own mental list of mass shootings which meet the criteria for inclusion with tPP, I was not able to determine why the 2009 shooting at […]
The thoughtful Greg Reese from Miami’s Research Computing Support sent our team a link to a news story today. The email was titled, “Might have relevance to your work” and linked to a story by Vice News, “Nearly All Mass Shooters Since 1966 Have Had 4 Things in Common.” This article presents a recent data […]
Today, the Prosecution Project was profiled in a piece by the Miami University Office for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship. To read the story click here!