Using Data to Stop Police Violence

Description

Samuel Sinyangwe, a policy analyst and data scientist at Human Rights Data Analysis Group, will give a talk titled "Using Data to Stop Police Violence" for the Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab and the IDARE Committee in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This event is part of the speaker series on "The Impact of Policing on Public Health."

Sinyangwe built Mapping Police Violence and the Police Scorecard and co-founded Campaign Zero to advance data-driven solutions to end police violence in America. Previously, Sinyangwe worked at PolicyLink, where he worked to connect 61 federally-funded communities to research-based strategies to build cradle-to-career systems of support for low-income families. He has also helped city leaders, youth activists and community organizations develop citywide agendas to achieve quality education, health, and justice for young black men. He graduated from Stanford University in 2012, where he studied how race and racism impact the U.S. political system.