Operation Safer Streets (or OSS for short) has become the epicenter of Nashville’s debates over policing and racial justice. Every weekend, the MNPD funnels police officers to hotspots for gangs or crime, arguing that a visible police-presence deters crime. Since 2011, OSS has resulted in more than 5,000 arrests and 50,000 vehicle stops, according toContinue reading “Nashville’s Policing Data Show Uneven Racial Burden from Operation Safer Streets”
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Is there systematic gender discrimination in Metro Nashville Employment? Part 1
Using the same municipal employee data from data.nashville.gov as the previous post, here I am looking at whether there is evidence of gender discrimination in the salaries of Metro Nashville government employees. Obviously this is a pretty complicated issue, and I am only really going to scratch the surface of it. Mostly this is just a funContinue reading “Is there systematic gender discrimination in Metro Nashville Employment? Part 1”
