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Susie Neilson

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Susie Neilson

@susieneilson

🕵🏻 and 📊 and 📝. Investigative reporter @sfchronicle & member of @sfcguild. Wanna talk? msg me at [email protected].

San Jose, CA

Joined July 2009

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Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
May 4
So over the moon and grateful for the recognition from the @PulitzerPrizes for our investigation into how insurance companies use faulty algorithms and flawed processes in ways that harm wildfire survivors. So grateful to our sources and collaborators at @sfchronicle
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Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
Sep 29, 2022
Damn, that's bold
Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
Apr 8, 2022
Crime in San Francisco attracts many hot takes 🌶️ so here's what the data shows: 1. The pandemic significantly affected crime 2. As SF is getting back to "normal," so are its crime rates 3. Chesa Boudin likely hasn't had an impact one way or another 1/
San Francisco crime rates drastically shifted in the pandemic. These charts show what’s happening...
From sfchronicle.com
Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
Feb 28, 2024
Yesterday, we published a yearlong investigation into fatal police chases around the country. We also made our data public. If you're a local reporter hoping to dig into fatal chases in your community, please - use our data!
GitHub - sfchronicle/police_pursuits: A repository for data assembled by the San Francisco Chroni...
From github.com
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Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
Apr 11, 2024
NEW: More people are dying in police chases than any period in the last 40+ years, according to new data released by the federal government. W/ @jennifergollan sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
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Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
Mar 11, 2024
Some professional news - I am now on the @sfchronicle investigative team! Really excited. Pls send me tips 🕵️‍♀️
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Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
Apr 13, 2023
Today, @SFPD arrested a fellow tech executive in connection with Bob Lee's horrific stabbing — after many prominent members of the tech community assumed his killer was poor, mentally ill and/or addicted to drugs. From our recent conversation with media researcher Pamela Mejia:
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Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
Nov 2, 2022
NEW: SFPD leaders have repeatedly said they didn’t intentionally reduce enforcement while Chesa Boudin was DA. But after his replacement Brooke Jenkins took over, the department immediately ramped up activity. @sfchronicle
Are S.F. police behaving differently under Brooke Jenkins than under Chesa Boudin? Study finds...
From sfchronicle.com
Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
Mar 6, 2024
Last night, San Franciscans voted to loosen restrictions on police chases. Experts @jennifergollan and I talked to said this rollback will a) not meaningfully reduce crime, and b) needlessly endanger innocent civilians.
San Francisco voted to loosen police chase rules. Experts say this could endanger the public
From sfchronicle.com
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Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
Feb 27, 2024
Deadly police chases are killing record numbers of Americans. The vast majority of people killed are suspected of only a minor crime, or no crime at all. Read our investigation:
‘Like firing a 4,000-pound bullet’: Police chases are killing more and more Americans
From sfchronicle.com
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Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
Jan 23, 2023
A few months ago, @meganrcassidy and I received a dataset of San Francisco police officers' reasons for stopping and searching ~39,000 people. I mined the text to see whether those reasons differed by race. This is what @JustMrPhillips and I found out:
S.F. police often use these marijuana-related words to justify fruitless searches of Black people
From sfchronicle.com
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Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
Apr 8, 2022
Replying to @susieneilson
4. Violent crime is at its lowest point since at least 1985 5. Murders have increased — but San Francisco still has one of the lowest murder rates of cities its size in the US 2/
Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
Feb 10, 2023
A robot at a mall in downtown San Francisco just tried to charge me over $12 for a small ice cream
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Susie Neilson
@susieneilson
Sep 20, 2022
Today we published possibly the biggest data project the @sfchronicle has ever done. First up: our deep-dive into rental property ownership in the Bay Area, revealing the region’s powerful corporate "landlords" and the neighborhoods they control.
These 12 secret power players are shaping the Bay Area housing market
From sfchronicle.com