Lisa Pickoff-White

California Reporting Project Director of Research. Former KQED, geek, b-movie lover, she/her. Signal user.

[Lisa Pickoff-White @pickoffwhite]

This fall the California Reporting Project, and I, started working more closely with a national collaboration of engineers, attorneys, journalists and academics to build systems around police use of force and misconduct data.

Why collaborate? There’s simply too much to do. 1/

[Emily Zentner @emilymzentner]

1/ Since the 1990s, medical & law enforcement experts have warned that restraining people facedown — called prone restraint — can be deadly. But our new investigation from the CA Newsroom & CA Reporting Project found that people are still dying this way.

https://t.co/WTMQn2lzPe

[Lisa Pickoff-White @pickoffwhite]

@ArijitDSen @CBSNews Congrats! They’re lucky to have you. And it’s a great team.

[Lisa Pickoff-White @pickoffwhite]

✨Some personal news ✨

Today is my first day as the California Reporting Project’s Director of Research.

Our collaboration has FOIAed reports on police violence and misconduct in the Golden State since 2019. https://t.co/ZpdPB0WGNc

[Lisa Pickoff-White @pickoffwhite]

@stevesaldivar I’m so sorry to hear this. And they’re losing someone whose heart is truly dedicated to Los Angeles.

[Omar S. Rashad عمر @omarsrashad]

Three months after our @fresnoland investigation into whether Fresno's budget process may have been violating California's Brown Act since 2019:

@ACLU_NorCal and @FACoalition have sued Fresno City Council over its "secret budget committee."

Our latest:
https://t.co/hm9JA66cu8

[Nazmul Ahasan @the_nazmul]

Two years of blood, sweat, and JavaScript since my @UCBSoJ days, building an entire interactive webpage from scratch and slogging through some painstakingly tedious, mind-numbing data cleaning

Thanks, @paldhous, @soo_oh & @yoli_martinez, for all the help!
https://t.co/l999gAa59c

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

For the past few months, the @latimes has been fighting for the release of videos showing deputies beating inmates in the LA jails.

This week, we got them.

Here are the videos they didn’t want you to see:

https://t.co/BZLBI3DrM7

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

You simply can't discuss water policy in the US without discussing agriculture and history. @janetwilson66 and @Nat_Lash explain: The Historic Claims That Put a Few California Farming Families First in Line for Colorado River Water https://t.co/0RJVYqD7kX

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

39 journalists have been killed in the first month of the Israel-Gaza War, the deadliest month since CPJ started keeping statistics in 1992.

34 were Palestinians; nearly all died from Israeli airstrikes, many in their homes with their families: https://t.co/UtbLDZjyBr

[Mercury News @mercnews]

Antioch police union president, acting chief found officers’ violence was justified before FBI deemed it criminal, new records show https://t.co/o6uMIymK4a

[Ben Welsh @palewire]

Data journalism pioneer Phil Meyer is dead.

He is remembered for teaching reporters how to do "social science in a hurry."

Here's why he thought it was important, spelled it out in 1973's "Precision Journalism," a direct critique of objectivity arguments that endure today.

[Jon Schleuss @gaufre]

Journalist Mohammed Abu Hatab was killed by an Israeli airstrike yesterday, according to news reports. That's 36 journalists and media workers killed so far in this war. According to @pressfreedom:
- 31 Palestinian media workers
- 4 Israeli
- 1 Lebanese

https://t.co/zNrWMFQkwt

[Beth LaBerge @bethlaberge]

✨📷 Spring ‘24 KQED Visual Internship 📸✨

This is a paid, 16-hour-a-week internship with @KQEDnews, working with our visual journalism team to produce photo and video in the SF Bay Area for our website + engagement.

Apply by Nov 17. More info here:
https://t.co/md3Iog3P9r

[Lisa Pickoff-White @pickoffwhite]

@YingZhao0521 You’re a great reporter.

I’m sorry this happens. And hope others also remember how that person told on themselves.

[Jelena Cosic @jecosic]

This one goes to all @ICIJorg partners around the world "Keep calm and collaborate" :)
Thanks @ejcnet @globalfreemedia and see you next time!

[Meghan Hoyer @MeghanHoyer]

Data journalism is 1/2 finding the data govt. collects and does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITH, even when it could reunite owners with their stolen cars. This is a great idea from @susieneilson to fix that: https://t.co/t6zLeVypc6

[Harriet Blair Rowan @HattieRowan]

We analyzed San Jose police records from 2014-2021, and found the majority of the 108 people seriously injured or killed were mentally impaired. True before AND after department-wide training in 2017:

w/ @pickoffwhite & @robertsalonga
https://t.co/aOS1OsmaLu

[Guy Marzorati 💯 @GuyMarzorati]

This troubling trend of police force in San Jose is despite extensive training and a steady decline in @SanJosePD overall use of lethal force.

@robertsalonga talked more about the investigation with @RachVasquez on @KQEDnews

https://t.co/1QlRiy0BGX

[Guy Marzorati 💯 @GuyMarzorati]

In recent years, the vast majority of people killed or seriously injured by @SanJosePD are mentally impaired.

an eye-opening investigation from @robertsalonga @HattieRowan @pickoffwhite w/ the California Reporting Project.

https://t.co/pjRjtQR7Ia