José Pina-Sánchez

University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 4d

📻Our @annabarker.bsky.social appears on BBC Radio 4's Living and Light, explaining how urban lighting affects safety and accessibility for women and girls, and the role lighting has been found to play in making these areas more accessible.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 7d

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 7d

the difference in deaths by dangerous driving and its cyclist equivalent suggests it is not just a reporting issue

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 7d

I was going to say that, also, 20mph limits in urban areas outside London (at least in West Yorkshire) are basically advisory.

Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New preprint 🚨

We present the decisions-from-experience database (DfE-DB), including data from 168 studies.

The data are currently shared with the original authors and made public upon publication.

🔗 Database: github.com/dwulff/dfe-db
🔗 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 7d

because of their systematic undermining of active travel initiatives, the inexplicable neglect of motoring offences, and the implications that the type suburban sprawl they favour have on the loneliness crisis and the climate crisis. This issue of blaming cyclists is just another example.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 7d

Time to remove the police from planning decisions / consultations.

road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 8d

“I do not believe that cyclists are a group of people who are more criminal than the rest of society or than any other road users. However, they are less accountable than people who drive buses and cars, and general deterrence theory does not work for them,” said former Met head Lord Hogan-Howe

“Arrogant” cyclists riding at 70mph are ignoring police and making pavements “as dangerous as the road”, House of Lords told

During a debate on the Crime and Policing Bill, former Met Police head Lord Hogan-Howe reiterated his calls for bike number plates, while other peers claimed that the “threat” had shifted from “Lycra ...

road.cc

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 8d

Set the email address as junk.

road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 8d

“I do not believe that cyclists are a group of people who are more criminal than the rest of society or than any other road users. However, they are less accountable than people who drive buses and cars, and general deterrence theory does not work for them,” said former Met head Lord Hogan-Howe

“Arrogant” cyclists riding at 70mph are ignoring police and making pavements “as dangerous as the road”, House of Lords told

During a debate on the Crime and Policing Bill, former Met Police head Lord Hogan-Howe reiterated his calls for bike number plates, while other peers claimed that the “threat” had shifted from “Lycra ...

road.cc

Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 I’ve been keeping this under wraps until published and it’s out today.

Do judges with background in law enforcement act differently at bail time? Our groundbreaking NYC study estimates that when they set bail, it is a full 32% higher on average compared to other judges. Check it out and share.

Judicial Professional Background and Pretrial Detention Outcomes | Journal of Law and Courts | Cambridge Core

Judicial Professional Background and Pretrial Detention Outcomes

www.cambridge.org

David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 8d

2001 Leeds supertram approved
2005 Leeds supertram cancelled
2012 Leeds trolleybus approved
2016 Leeds trolleybus cancelled
2024 Plans for 2 tram routes by early 2030s
2025 Plans delayed until late 2030s

Meanwhile, we all struggle with a congested, polluted city.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Leeds-Bradford £2.5bn tram plan delayed after government review

West Yorkshire's mayor says she is confident the trams will be running

www.bbc.co.uk

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 9d

Not really, i think sentence outcomes are aggregated quarterly before reported in the moj stats bulletin. It is really frustrating all these obstacles, I still dont see what they achieve when you have tabloids reporting about individual sentences nonstop.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 9d

But to get the sentence outcome we need more than sentence proceedings, ideally the sentence transcripts, but these are only recorded in audio, I think.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 9d

We did something lile that back in the day, jmpinasanchez.github.io/static/Pina....

jmpinasanchez.github.io

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 9d

I think this website focuses more on serious crimes, so mainly Crown Court.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, this website compiles them, www.thelawpages.com/court-hearin...
@profkyd.bsky.social might now better as she has done tons of court observations

Crown Court Cases Lists, Daily Listings, Hearings, Records UK

Crown Court Listings, Cases, Results, UK

www.thelawpages.com

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 9d

Knowing the specific courts where ethnic disparities are more pronounced would be really useful to determine whether those disparities are truly unwarranted, and if so, design better strategies to minimise them. That would be far more effective & less controversial than what has been tried so far.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 9d

This limitation is quite frustrating. Either the Judicial Office, the MoJ, or HMCTS stipulated that reporting specific court effects are off-limits invoking reasons of confidentiality, but trials in England are public proceedings, and members of the public are generally free to attend.

Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 10d

Here's really hoping that this is true and done well. It is a joy having European students join us for their studies abroad, and likewise, our students enjoy their time studying abroad.
#Erasmus #StillEuropean
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme

Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

www.theguardian.com

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 10d

iii) ethnic disparities are not uniform across court locations, in some parts of the country ethnic minority offenders are treated much more harshly, but in a few others the opposite is true. Unfortunately we cannot identify the more problematic courts because of reasons.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 10d

This last point really matters: the magistrates’ courts impose about 93% of all sentences, yet practically all empirical research in England and Wales focuses on the Crown Court. We may therefore have a potentially massive selection bias on our hands.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 10d

and find:
i) slightly higher between court disparities (inconsistency) and ethnic disparities in the magistrates than in the Crown Court.
ii) previous evidence based on the Crown Court does not always generalise, e.g. we do not see ethnic disparities amongst drug offenders in the magistrates,

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 10d

New preprint: "Widening the Lens: Exploring Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing in the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts"
www.crimrxiv.com/pub/9a70adbm...
Led by @eoinguilfoyle.bsky.social, with Ana Morales & Sara Geneletti.
We compare the Crown Court and the magistrates' courts for the first time...

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 10d

Creative parking at the University of Leeds, where we keep subsidising car dependency.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 11d

"There clearly is a market for New Urbanist style communities, mainly among young singles, double-income-no-children couples, and people who appreciate bohemian lifestyles. Families with children, empty nesters, and people who prefer a quieter neighbourhood are not so interested"

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 11d

Most researchers find their motivation in their love for their subject, the pursuit of knowledge, or the desire to change the world. In my case, most of it is just pure undistilled spite from reading things like this in peer-reviewed journals (from a paper on crime prevention):

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 12d

Could be hypothyroidism?

20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 13d

For children walking or cycling to school, "outside the school" is the least dangerous part of their journey. Children need 20mph limit protection on the whole of their home to school route. 20mph "just outside schools" contemptuously disregards duty of care on child mobility

School gate risk

We support those communities that want 20mph where peopleare

www.20splenty.org

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 14d

“Why did arrest counts arrive clean and whole, while use-of-force data arrived fragmented and disordered, unfit for analysis? … police differentiate potentially embarrassing data on police actions from crime data …to support dominant narratives about policing” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Police use of force data collection issues in Florida: A minor critique

Public scrutiny of policing depends on access to data about police activity. Yet, despite widespread calls for transparency, data on police actions re…

www.sciencedirect.com

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 14d

Today I had just one meeting and received only 15 emails - none of them urgent. The rest was 'me time' to write about cars and crime. I'll miss this job when it is gone.

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