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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

But your dog can now practice law now?

William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I feel that. I quit riding when I moved to Texas (bc Texas drivers are the worst and the roads around Houston were too). I did not restart riding when i moved to ID for family reasons. I just sold my Honda Blackbird in the fall. Was tough to see it go.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I am here to report that the Race to Robie Creek is, indeed, no friggin joke. Also happy to say it was fun. Five stars.

Middle aged white guy in shorts, baseball hat, neck scarf, long sleeve t- shirt, and HOT pink compression socks runs slowly on a sandy road. Other runners who look healthier and happier have been cropped from the photo. Just the sole Runner remains as a warning to others. Oh. His shirt reads "Rocky 50". It's a race in Texas. He only wears his Rocky 50 shirt for special occasions.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 23/02/2026

In the video of Trump talking to the US men's hockey team, when he says "I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that" as a joke about how annoying it is to have women around, the most painful part for me, are all the hockey players laughing. Actually laughing.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

4. This AI slop-factory-output is easy to detect this year. In a few years we are going to be overwhelmed with AI slop bullshit, but it will be difficult to detect. It will be a tsunami of fabricated crap, increasingly more difficult to distinguish from the good, honest research. SMH.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

3. But none of the references hit in google.scholar. I checked 10 of them; all were fabricated. Mash-ups of authors, with word salads drawn from real publications, stapled to a real journal. But all fictitious. The best one? "T.O. Decker" who I presume is Scott Decker's little known brother?

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

2. That IRB statement? "This study was approved under IRB 2023-11225." So my spidey sense was already on full-tingle. And then I got to the reference section. Of the 50+ references, ALL of them were published in 2023 or 2024. ALL. OF. THEM. The authors you'd expect were cited. The title looked legit

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

1. Just reviewed a manuscript for a CJ journal that was, I am 99% certain, AI generated. The writing was grammatically correct yet clunky and awk. IRB state assurance was wedged into the data analysis section. Bold statements "no study has ever done the thing..." yet vague on details.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I saw somewhere that DC has now gone a week without a homicide which, for context, is the 7th time DC has gone 7+ days without a homicide so far this year (longest stretch was 17 days).

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Some days are wonderful. Other days make me wonder. Sighted on campus.

Photo of a small window of an interior door of building. Visible through window is a mannequin, lying face down on a table, unclothed.

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ADPCCJ @adpccj.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Welcome to ADCCJ's Official Bluesky Account! Please follow us to stay in the loop!

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I will share this with my incoming cohort of grad students in August, as part of our discussion of stress and wellbeing.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Here to amplify the Addies and Goldies recs.

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John Roman @johnkroman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Crime in America spiked with the COVID-19 pandemic, then plummeted. Here are four reasons why. open.substack.com/pub/johnkrom...

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Explaining the COVID Violence Spike and the Roaring Crime Decline

Four Reasons for the Historic Beginning to the 2020s

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I recall that a Boston patrol cop's work diary from the 1800s was found (hidden is a wall, methinks) and later published. I saw a citation to it somewhere, but the details escape me. Not sure this counts as a memoir. I will dig around my office today.

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Daniel Lytle, Ph.D. @dlytle21.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The African American History museum is incredible. I highly recommend anyone go see it. It’s a powerful look at the history of a group of people that have a large and often overlooked, and hidden impact on American history.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Treefort Musicfest was outstanding this year! Excellent bands, good food, a frickin' giant lit mammoth, chill crowds, and great people watching. Two high points were seeing Fleeting Confidence (a hot trio), and one of my favs, Lunar Vacation.

Five piece rock band, Lunar Vacation, bathed in purple and blue stage lights, playing at the Shrine Ballroom in Boise, March 30, 2025.

Selfie of two people, bathed in red light, smiling at the camera. Shrine Hall 1st floor bar, March 30, 2025. Lblogic.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Illuminating thread on women's involvement in early prevocational English policing. Yes, a woman served as a Shire Reeve (sheriff).

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Everyday is Like Sunday, by the Pretenders .

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

It's good to see NIBIN and Pete Gagliardi's influence in action. The last 12 years have seen ATF invest heavily in making NIBIN a key investigative tool for local agencies. Crucial work that has remained invisible to the public.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A mix of both please. Skeets about music, pets, hobbies, daily wins, kids, travel, etc. AND skeets about the dark shadow of authoritarianism.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Attended the rally at the Idaho State House this morning. Great energy, great speakers, and the best signs. Hafta admit, this sign had me feeling a little triggered until @lblogic.bsky.social explained it wasn't referring to me. Phew.

Picture of a handsome middle aged man looks at camera. Behind him, someone in a crowd holds a sign that reads "No King." In the background, the dome of the Idaho State House. The humor is implied bc the man facing the camera is named (wait for it). King.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I am back. Running. Finally recovered to the point of regular, semi-long runs.

Selfie of a middle aged stud. Outside, with the foothills of Boise in the background. Sunlight shines on his smiling face and his ball cap is slightly crooked. This is someone who cares not for fashion. Slight oakey overtone of danger...maybe.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

For a little additional context, there are almost 18,000 separate police agencies in the US. About 3,300 County sheriffs offices. And city/town police agencies, and transit/airport/housing/parks (etc). Fragmented and locally controlled

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Boise Kitchen Collective @bkitchencollective.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

👋 Hi! We are Boise Kitchen Collective — a mutual aid group that gets warm food, treats and supplies into the hands of anyone who needs it.

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Boise Kitchen Collective provides free hot meals

Every Wednesday, The Boise Kitchen Collective serves free hot meals at Rhodes Skate Park.

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Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Federal District Judge Loren L. AliKhan issues a temporary administrative stay on the "pause on disbursement of federal funds on all open awards" until Monday, Feb. 3 at 5 pm She says this administrative stay applies "just those grants that are open and affected by OMB’s order."

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Whoops. Ends up it was Mankato State.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

For today, Exene Cervenka and the band X's "Country at War" seems appropriate.

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reclaimidaho.bsky.social @reclaimidaho.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This morning, legislators introduced a bill that would eliminate Idaho’s entire Medicaid Expansion program, stripping healthcare coverage from nearly 100K Idahoans. Soon we’ll need you to show up to a public hearing (date/time TBA). In the meantime, here are 4 reasons to protect Medicaid Expansion.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I upgraded from my Singer Fashionmate (circa 1980?) to a Singer HD. Very happy w the new Singer. FWIW.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Cheryl Waters spinning the midday show on KEXP is just perfect. Perfect. #KEXP

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I will have to look at my notes. In the data I have gathered from SOs, mergers of any LE agency (e.g., PD1 + PD2 merge) are very rare. Usually a PD disbanded and 1) the SO takes over w a $ contract, or 2) no contract for SO. So, the PD+ SO mergers are darn rare.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

City-county consolidation also occurred in Indy-Marion Cty (IN), Butte-Silver Bow (MT), + Louisville (KY). I have a file w the years of consolidation bc it scratches my itchiness about organizational population ecology.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Yes. Some of the art work was Rose's.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

4...always available for a conversation in his office. He will be dearly missed by those who knew him.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

3...NIJ, in the mid-1990s, and then to the U of Alaska at Anchorage, and then the Univ of Central Florida, where he retired. I think Bob's most profound impact was upon his students. He was demanding yet funny and warm, and generous with his time and wisdom. I learned so much from him, and he was...

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

2. ...geography (from Bemidji State), to his doctorate at SUNY Albany. His dissertation tested a comparative model of police org structure + police behavior; later published in 1986. Bob landed at the University of Cincinnati, where he was a founding member of CJ Ph.D program. He later worked at...

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

1. Robert H. Langworthy passed away on Nov. 25, 2024. Bob was best known for his pioneering work on quantifying police organizational structure (1986), and his work (with John Crank) applying institutional org theory to police agencies (1992). Bob's career took him from the USAF, to a degree in...

Two men sit, facing obliquely, discussing something. Each holds a bottle of beer, wrapped in a napkin. William King (L), and Robert H. Langworthy (R). Picture take at the University of Cincinnati, in 2011.

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Jeffrey Butts @jeffreybutts.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Since many researchers are here now, I want to draw attention to a publishing opportunity. Special issue of the Sage journal, Inquiry, focused on violence prevention strategies that leverage community-level mechanisms. Deadline is Jan 11 & I can answer questions. journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

TLDR summary? "I didn't read your book, but you triggered me. I use yahoo email, so I am very old, and CAPS LOCK too." No mention of the ivory tower...disappointed.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I recall this idea (defund NPR) from a while ago, but something like 10% of their funding is from the feds.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Same for Idaho. A lot of out of state money gets pumped into our state elections and legislative sessions, so extremists can trial run their wacko bills. If it works in ID, it may come to a state near you.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents. Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.

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William King, Ph.D. @william-king.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Stormie says stop scrolling and go to bed. Goodnight everyone.

Photo of a black cat resting on a bed. Cat's tongue is sticking out, at the tip. Photo is from early 2018.

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