Years after serving time as a youth offender, the photographer Brian Frank has devoted himself to documenting young men’s experiences with the criminal justice system.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/lens/juvenile-incarceration-california-brian-l-frank.html
Author: scott prell
There are more mass shootings where gun laws are weaker, according to a study – Vox
Mass shootings are more common in states with weaker gun laws and higher levels of gun ownership, the study found.
— Read on www.vox.com/2019/3/8/18254626/mass-shootings-gun-violence-laws-study
Here is a link to the article.
John Jay College on Vimeo
Video from 2 symposiums:
Crime in America and The Hidden Costs of the Criminal Justice System.
Day 1 of the Guggenheim Symposium
0:57 minute mark criminogenic effect of prison
0:59 min Research on mass incarceration
1:09 h:m prison doesn’t work
1:26 h:m restorative justice – can it restore and fix fear?
3:08 h:m violence in America
5:40 h:m mass shooting** excellent for CRJ-302
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— Read on vimeo.com/johnjaycollege/videos
Shootings by NYPD continue downward trend | Modern Policing
Police-involved shootings by NYPD officers have decreased 96% since 1972, dropping from 994 in that year to 35 in 2018, as reported here. More restrictive deadly force policies adopted in the 1970s had an early impact, while the sharp decline in violent crime since the 1990s has contributed. More recently, officials say enhanced training deserves credit…
— Read on gcordner.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/shootings-by-nypd-continue-downward-trend/
Beyond Broken Windows: What Really Drives Urban Crime – CityLab
The premise of this article illustrates hot people and crime. It talks about hot people but I’m sure that these serious crimes occur in only a small percentage of city PLACES which generates the majority of crime.
KEEP in mind that .6% of a City of 258,612 people is 1552 SERIOUS offenders. That is not an insignificant number.
Maybe the perception of a dangerous neighborhood is because a part of the city has a concentration of the 1552 people.
OR maybe the 1552 people are distributed throughout the city creating 5 really bad people in each neighborhood.
Most serious urban violence is concentrated among less than 1 percent of a city’s population. So why are we still criminalizing whole areas?
— Read on www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/02/broken-windows-theory-policing-urban-violence-crime-data/583030/
Faster Care in Mass Shootings | EMS World
An Ohio service designs a new approach to get to casualties quickly and safely.
— Read on www.emsworld.com/article/1222346/faster-care-mass-shootings
Educators, officers focus on disrupting school-to-prison pipeline in Tulsa Public Schools forum on community policing | Crime & Courts | tulsaworld.com
See also https://futureofpolicing.blog/2019/03/03/civil-rights-and-the-school-to-prison-pipeline-in-oklahoma/
A panel discussed moderator queries and responded to written questions submitted by audience members for two hours during the “Community Conversation” event Thursday night at the TPS Education Service Center.
— Read on http://www.tulsaworld.com/content/tncms/live/
Civil Rights and the School- to-Prison Pipeline in Oklahoma
Where is the chapter for bad behavior and punishment?
www.usccr.gov/pubs/docs/Oklahoma_SchooltoPrisonPipeline_May2016.pdf
Utah moves to decertify Brigham Young University’s police department; school plans to appeal – The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah moves to decertify Brigham Young University’s police department; school plans to appeal – The Salt Lake Tribune
— Read on www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/02/26/utah-moves-decertify-byu/
Surrounded: Killings near school, and the students left behind – Los Angeles Times
A multiple part series on violence near school.
Even as crime has dropped in L.A., thousands of children grow up with a constant drumbeat of death.
— Read on www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-edu-school-safety/