TJI Blog

Where the TJI team posts blogs about our data, publications, analyses, and code.

  • Texas Attorney General’s Sites for Death and Shooting Reports Go Dark

    June 15, 2021
    Eva Ruth Moravec
    For six weeks this spring, the Texas Office of the Attorney General’s websites that house reports on
    officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody were malfunctioning, cutting off access to records that detail
    important (and often lethal) interactions between civilians and law enforcement. Every week, law e
    data oversight

  • Using Markdown and GitHub for Blogging - Part 1

    May 16, 2021
    Hongsup Shin
    Our TJI volunteer team has grown over the last year. We have new volunteers who are working on various
    projects. With this growth, I've started thinking about a blog where volunteers like myself can document and
    publish our work easily and efficiently. Blogging is useful in many ways. First, it highlights a volunte
    team

  • At the Crossroads of Risk Factors

    April 1, 2021
    Margarita Bronshteyn and Eva Ruth Moravec
    In June of 2020, the executive director of the Texas Justice Initiative, Eva Ruth
    Moravec, started noticing a disturbing trend in the custodial death data - an alarming
    number of Texas Department of Criminal Justice's announcements ab
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    At the Crossroads of Risk Factors

  • This is How We Watchdog

    December 21, 2020
    Eva Ruth Moravec
    We frequently mention that we “watchdog” the data that we work with as much as possible, but I thought I’d peel
    that back a bit. What do TJI’s oversight efforts look like? Each month, I get new data from the Texas Office of the
    Attorney General reflecting the previous month's reported deaths in custody and shootings of and
    data oversightteam
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