Chad Gesser

I've been on something of a rollercoaster of experiences the past several months and it's given me pause to think about the social psychological impact of 2020. Given the breadth of impact I think just about anyone can find something to relate to in these ideas. ---------------- Earlier this summer, after spending several months already in a form of lockdown, it struck me that I was feeling a sense of illusion. I recall discussing this with my immediate family. They too echoed similar sentiments. “Things just seem weird.”  For all intents and purposes I’ve been a professional Sociologist for almost 25 years. I’ve spent that time doing research and in academia. I have a good eye for understanding social experiences and how they impact the sense of self. This sense of “feeling weird” was a sensation, if you will, I found unique. I found it to be beyond a similar term in the field, “ anomie .” Particularly since March 2020, there has been so much for mindful people to absorb. I sa

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Here's a snippet from a Halloween live stream music event from a few weeks back. Allow me to apologize for having so much fun exploring strange sonic edges https://t.co/79hJKjohr7 — Chad Gesser (@profgesser) November 14, 2020

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  U.S. immigrant population projected to rise, even as share falls among Hispanics, Asians | Pew Research Center Do immigrants lead to crime? A recent study says no. | The Marshall Project

  An Animated Visualization of the U.S. Mass Incarceration Crisis - CityLab All About the Ferguson Syllabus National Criminal Justice Reference Service | NCJRS https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf U.S. Department of Justice Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics States with the most (and least) gun violence Crime | Gallup Historical Trends https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/publications/Crime%20Trends%201990-2016.pdf Brennan Center for Justice | Programs and Practices - What Works in Criminal Justice - CrimeSolutions.gov https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/232215.pdf Popular Projects | National Institute of Corrections The International Association of Chiefs of Police > IACP Homepage

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It's required by law for candidates for office to report financial data. Here's a look at campaign finances for pertinent upcoming elections.  Here are some key points and observations:  * most campaign dollars for local elections come from the candidate and the candidate's family funds.  * you need at least $5,000 to run a respectable city commission campaign. That doesn't mean you can't win on less.  * only 8 of the 16 city commission candidates have reported finance data. This could mean they have raised and/or spent less than $3,000. Local candidates only have to provide financial data if they raise or spend more than $3,000.  * the likely winning mayoral candidate will have raised and spent nearly $10,000. Per this report Conder has spent over $30,000 and Watson over $43,000. They both have more to spend.  * be mindful that a lot of campaign money usually is spent between the 15 day report and the post election report. The post election financial data usually

Who Rules America: Explore the Power Elite Mapping Poverty in America - The New York Times Where Americans—Rich and Poor—Spent Every Dollar in 2012 - The Atlantic In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters - NYTimes.com Inequality is real, personal, expensive, and it was created Institute for Research on Poverty | University of Wisconsin–Madison Poverty Where the 1 Percent Fit in the Hierarchy of Income - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart - The New York Times Are you in the US middle class? Try our income calculator | Pew Research Center Childhood poverty linked to brain changes related to depression 5 facts about the minimum wage | Pew Research Center Which States Are Givers and Which Are Takers? - The Atlantic Americans Think Upward Mobility Is Far More Common Than It Really Is - CityLab Plutocracy Rising | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com Talk Poverty - Real People. Real Stories. Real Solution