Khoi Ngo

Khoi’s ASA 2025 presentations

I’m incredibly excited for my first-ever ASA this August! The excitement is also two-fold: I have 2 presentations lined up. One is solo-authored (neighborhood perceptions using 2 survey experiments). The other is co-authored w/ @ktandrews.bsky.social (U.S. college protests).

27.04.2025 15:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Trace Expands Gun Violence Data Hub With New Data Library The Gun Violence Data Hub, a project of The Trace, has launched a data library to further its mission of making information about gun violence accessible to local newsrooms and researchers. The librar...

The Gun Violence Data Hub's library of data has launched! 🚀📈 This is the project I've been working on since September.

It's looking great, and we hope it will enable journos and researchers around the country to do deeper work on guns and gun violence @thetrace.org
www.thetrace.org/2025/03/trac...

12.03.2025 16:47 — 👍 27    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0

End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

01.02.2025 00:58 — 👍 33088    🔁 12228    💬 486    📌 582

Police Use of Face Recognition Continues to Wrack Up Real-World Harms Police have shown, time and time again, that they cannot be trusted with face recognition technology (FRT). It is too dangerous, invasive, and in the hands of law enforcement, a perpetual liability. E...

Despite policies that face recognition will just be a "jumping off point" and not evidence leading directly to arrest--people very easily proven innocent continue to be arrested and jailed after being misidentified by computers.

This has got to stop and more cities should be considering bans.

15.01.2025 18:38 — 👍 20    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

The Dangerous Yet Desirable Work of Being an Incarcerated Firefighter in California More than 900 prison firefighters were responding to the crisis in Los Angeles — but their pay is low and the ethics of their choice are complicated.

More than 900 prison firefighters were responding to the crisis in Los Angeles — but their pay is low and the ethics of their choice are complicated.

11.01.2025 21:53 — 👍 39    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 3

LA Budgeted Money For Cop Jobs While Cutting Fire Department Positions. Now the City Is Burning. “Defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” according to a local activist.

Because if not, you will one day find yourself answering why you increased the police budget by $126M while cutting the Fire budget by$17.6M. It’s all about trade offs and weighing risks… and the economist (and backers) will be long gone when the fire storm hits. theintercept.com/2025/01/08/l...

11.01.2025 22:06 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

I’d love to be added please! Thank you for doing this!

10.12.2024 21:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Massachusetts Is Making Communications Free for Incarcerated People The reform would eliminate the exorbitant charges people face to keep in touch with loved ones in jail and prison, removing a heavy financial burden for thousands.

Massachusetts last year made phone calls from prison and jails free.

It also wiped charges for other forms of communication between incarcerated folks & their loved ones.

You can see how hugely important it is for people in this piece. 1/2
boltsmag.org/massachusett...

06.12.2024 05:20 — 👍 1185    🔁 262    💬 34    📌 14