Category: CRJ101 Intro CJ

NJ college athlete shot dead by cops after mistakenly trying to enter stranger’s home during night of drinking: family

Unarmed NJ college student Glen Pysher, 22, was shot and killed by police after mistakenly trying to enter a stranger’s Pennsylvania home.
— Read on nypost.com/2026/08/24/us-news/nj-college-athlete-shot-dead-by-cops-after-mistakenly-trying-to-enter-strangers-home-during-night-of-drinking-family/

Summarizing a Historic 2025 Crime Report with Charts & Tables

The FBI released its 2025 Crime in the United States report on a Friday afternoon which wasn’t there fault but also was super great for getting a ton of attention on the fact that murder fell at the fastest pace ever recorded to the lowest rate recorded since the FBI started its modern estimates.
— Read on jasher.substack.com/p/summarizing-a-historic-2025-crime

Broken Windows Works: Don’t Be Fooled By Latest Efforts To Discredit It.

Broken Windows policing receives credit—rightly—for being part of the crime turnaround that saved New York and other cities. The theory, originating with George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson, argued that tolerating too much local disorder created a climate in which criminal behavior, including serious crimes, would become more likely, since criminals would sense that […]
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/broken-windows-works

Embedded: “We Keep Us Safe” from NPR, KUOW and The Seattle Times : NPR

In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as CHOP. Less than a week later, he was shot and killed there. The case remains unsolved.
— Read on www.npr.org/2026/06/04/g-s1-120825/seattle-chop-zone-antonio-mays

TACKLING NEAR REPEAT CRIME

This document is designed to assist law enforcement professionals in identifying and responding to near repeat patterns of victimization. Several open source tools are broadly discussed as they are necessary to quantify near repeat patterns and develop interventions; we encourage you to review those program’s user manuals for more details.

This report will help you:

  1. Understand what near repeat patterns are and why they are useful to policing
  2. Evaluate global and local patterns of near repeat
  3. Formulate appropriate responses these patterns
  4. Develop program metrics to understand the effect of the intervention
  5. Evaluate a near repeat crime prevention program

See the complete policy brief HERE

Ferguson at Twelve: The Lie That Divided a Nation

Ferguson is often thought of as an isolated event, something that happened way back when. I recently had to explain what happened in Ferguson to several eighteen year olds who had never heard of the shooting, because they were six years old when it happened. But Ferguson is not an isolated event. In many ways, it is the beginning, or the key escalation, in the long running culture war that is now sixty years old, and its repercussions are felt to this day. Would the stunning response sanitizing the Hamas of October 7 as freedom fighters have been possible without how Ferguson changed the landscape? Likely not. Or it wouldn’t have been as successful. Ferguson was the launch of Black Lives Matter, the elevation of liberation ideology and the red-green axis that rolls stronger today than ever. And it all began on Canfield Drive with the dead body of Michael Brown lying on that scorching pavement that August afternoon and this weekend is the twelfth anniversary.
— Read on manofsteele.substack.com/p/ferguson-at-twelve-the-lie-that-divided