Excellent podcast- discussing Broken Windows Policing.
Rafael A. Mangual joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss barriers to enacting effective crime-fighting policies.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/multimedia/policing-and-the-social-order
Tag: Crime
Police can’t get tough on crime until we help them fix a crisis of their own | Fox News
Policing in the US is bad and isn’t getting better. The left demonizes the officers and departments are heavily understaffed. Don’t look for a return to Broken Windows policing soon.
— Read on www.foxnews.com/opinion/police-cant-get-tough-crime-until-help-them-fix-crisis-own
Vital City | Crime on the New York City Subway: How Rare Is it Really?
This is the first report of a 3 part series.
What the numbers tell us and what to do about it — the first in a series
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/how-rare-is-crime-on-the-subway
Can We Get Back to Tougher Policing
More than 40 years have passed since the publication of one of the most important public-policy essays ever written. Its title, “Broken Windows,” captured the essence of a simple but deeply insightful idea: public order matters. “[I]f a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken,” wrote the late authors, political scientist James Q. Wilson and longtime Manhattan Institute senior fellow George L. Kelling, in the March 1982 issue of The Atlantic. Visible signs of chaos were like warnings: you’re not safe here. If left unaddressed, the chaos made those areas more vulnerable to further disorder, including serious crime. “ ‘[U]ntended’ behavior,” the authors maintained, “leads to the breakdown of community controls” and causes residents to “think that crime, especially violent crime, is on the rise, and . . . modify their behavior accordingly.” The areas where disorder festers become more “vulnerable to criminal invasion” than “places where people are confident they can regulate public behavior by informal controls.”
Read more by Rafael Mangual – HERE
Efficient justice: Thinking at the margins about crime and punishment – Niskanen Center
A justice system, by its very nature, provides benefits and imposes costs.
— Read on www.niskanencenter.org/efficient-crime-control/
On Lessons Not Learned: Blue Cities Like Seattle Confirm the Broken Windows Theory—40 Years After It Was Proposed
See the report here:
The Urban Violent Crime Spike Is Real | City Journal
Crime continues to plague the American urban core at much higher levels than before the pandemic.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/the-urban-violent-crime-spike-is-real
We’re in a Violent Crime Spike –The Glenn Show
We’re in a Violent Crime Spike | Glenn Loury & Charles Fain Lehman| The Glenn Show. Excellent Show! Below is a list of different topis discussed.
This podcast does an excellent job presenting a moderate conservative approach to crime, policing, drugs etc. If you’re liberal Lehman may draw you more to the middle. If you’re a staunch conservative Lehman will get you to loosen your grip and slide to the middle. After listening to this podcast both liberals and conservatives can find an area for intelligent discussion.
On my blog search “Glenn Show” for other podcasts from Glenn Loury that discuss crime, police, and race.
- 0:00 New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s controversial decision to post the National Guard in the subway
- 4:25 Charles defends pretrial detentions …
- 12:45 … but he sees the problem with long pretrial detentions
- 19:05 The ongoing—and occasionally halting—recovery from 2020
- 23:21 Are any major cities doing law enforcement and criminal justice right?
- 29:52 Charles: I’ve seen no evidence that police unions abet misconduct
- 34:38 Charles’s unsexy solutions for decreasing police misconduct
- 38:00 Our present drift toward social toleration of drug use
- 43:40 The perils of legalized sports gambling
- 49:57 Charles: Long-term, medically assisted treatment is the best way to get addiction rates down
- 53:06 Are we under-counting hate crimes?
Glenn Loury (Brown University, Manhattan Institute) and Charles Fain Lehman (Manhattan Institute). Recorded March 22, 2024.
See the video HERE
Homicide: Life in the Stats
Excellent read.
When national trends clash with on-the-ground realities
— Read on https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/homicide-life-in-the-stats
Why Did Gun Violence in Buffalo Decline Dramatically in 2023?
Community leaders say it’s not attributable to a single initiative, but rather a tapestry of collaborative, mostly grassroots efforts — including the Peacemakers program.
— Read on www.thetrace.org/2024/04/buffalo-homicide-rate-data-peacemakers/
Hear is another story about the beginning of Buffalo’s fight against crime and violence see more HERE
Future of Policing 