One of the common responses to my piece from last week on the widespread — albeit preliminary — reported decline in murder and crime could be summarized in the below comment from Twitter: “How accurate can recent burglary/larceny crime stats be when we know they’re not being recorded in many locations where such theft won’t be prosecuted? I imagine the same goes for some other stats here.”
— Read on jasher.substack.com/p/is-crime-underreporting-getting-worse
Month: February 2024
Super Speeders: Mining Speed-Camera Data to Analyze Extreme Recidivism in New York City | Published in Findings
By Marcel Moran. Mining a decade of speed-camera data in New York City finds some individual automobiles are accruing upwards of 100 or more violations per year, even as overall violations are decreasing.
— Read on findingspress.org/
High-profile incidents of police brutality sway public opinion more than performance of local law enforcement: Study
National media coverage of police brutality influences public perceptions of law enforcement more than the performance of people’s local police departments, according to data analysis from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, …
— Read on phys.org/news/2024-02-high-profile-incidents-police-brutality.html
Does New York’s Bail Reform Law Impact Recidivism? A Quasi-Experimental Test in the State’s Suburban and Upstate Regions – Data Collaborative for Justice
Does New York’s Bail Reform Law Impact Recidivism? A Quasi-Experimental Test in the State’s Suburban and Upstate Regions – Data Collaborative for Justice
— Read on datacollaborativeforjustice.org/work/bail-reform/does-new-yorks-bail-reform-law-impact-recidivism-a-quasi-experimental-test-in-the-states-suburban-and-upstate-regions/
Addictive Hypervigilance and Uncontrolled Police Use of Force by Jesse Cheng :: SSRN
Abstract
This theoretical chapter draws from Gilmartin’s (1986) conceptualization of police hypervigilance to present an “addictive hypervigilance” hypothesis of uncontrolled police use of force. The hypothesis proposes that officers can develop a behavioral addiction to a reactive, fight-or-flight physiological state that promotes the misperception of threats, impairing affected officers’ ability over time to exercise appropriate restraint in the use of force. Should the hypothesis prove valid, this chapter suggests that Gilmartin’s own clinical observations would require that hypervigilance’s fear-based, on-guard mentality be modulated through the deliberate cultivation of other professional roles.
— Read on papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm
Race & Policing | NAACP Bucks County
New Report Reveals Significant Racial Disparities in Bucks County Policing. The NAACP Bucks County 2023 Report on Reimagining Public Safety reveals racial disparities in enforcement as well as significant shortcomings in existing departmental policies. The report includes key findings and recommendations for improving the transparency and accountability of municipal policing in Bucks County.
— Read on www.naacpbucks.org/policing
Recommendations to Reform New York’s Bail Reform | Manhattan Institute
The recent crime uptick and drop in public support for New York’s recent bail reform suggest that the law needs fixing. Manhattan Institute fellow, Rafael Mangual, suggests his recommendations to “reform the reform” and enhance public safety while still keeping the original reform efforts in tact.
— Read on manhattan.institute/article/reforming-new-yorks-bail-reform-a-public-safety-minded-proposal
Cleaning up the built environment to reduce crime – Niskanen Center
In every city, a small group of blocks generate most of the serious crime. Place-based crime reduction strategies are grounded in some of the most critical insights made by crime scholars in the past forty years.
— Read on www.niskanencenter.org/cleaning-up-the-built-environment-to-reduce-crime/
Buffalo’s bad cops: Police leader says he lacks power to discipline : Investigative Post
This is an interesting read. I don’t know how the City and Police Union can enter into a contractual agreement that is contrary to State Law and expect the law not to be enforced.
Buffalo & WNY Investigative Reporting Center
— Read on www.investigativepost.org/2024/01/29/policing-buffalos-police/
The NYPD issued more than 100K fare evasion tickets last year. See how many were at your stop. – Gothamist
— Read on gothamist.com/news/the-nypd-issued-over-100k-tickets-for-fare-evasion-last-year-see-how-many-were-at-your-stop
Future of Policing 