Author: scott prell

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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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/

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/

Case Study of NYC Program Proves ‘No Need to Lock Up Kids for Public Safety’   | The Crime Report

Juvenile arrests in New York City were slashed in half since the city stopped sending young people to youth detention facilities far from their homes under the 2012 ‘Close to Home’ law, according to a case study released Wednesday.
— Read on thecrimereport.org/2019/02/27/case-study-of-nyc-program-proves-no-need-to-lock-up-kids-for-public-safety/

Here are more resources on Youth Detention including a link to the report discussed in the above article.

Office of Children and Family Services

Close to Home

https://ocfs.ny.gov/main/rehab/close_to_home/

https://justicelab.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Moving%20Beyond%20Youth%20Prisons%20-%20C2H.pdf

http://www.cclp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Close-to-Home-Implementation-Report-Final.pdf

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/250142.pdf

Youth Detention

http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/06-11_rep_dangersofdetention_jj.pdf