Tag: Crime

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

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

Police Reform | San Francisco Police Department

The San Francisco Police Department is in the midst of a transformational endeavor that reflects our commitment to the principle of safety with respect and aspires to make SFPD a national model of 21st century policing. Initially launched in 2016 as the Collaborative Reform Initiative (or CRI), SFPD’s quest for continual improvement has grown to include Mayor London Breed’s ambitious Police Reform Roadmap and our department’s Racial Equity and Inclusion Action Plan.
— Read on www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/police-reform

Get a copy of the 432 page report HERE

“It’s Not as Bad as People Think the Place Is” | Manhattan Institute

The Potential for Informal Social Control at Crime Hot Spots

Executive Summary

Criminologists have long known that crime is highly concentrated—in most cities, approximately 50% of crime happens on only 5% of streets. As a result, many cities have effectively reduced crime by concentrating police resources in extremely high-crime “hot-spots.”

— Read on manhattan.institute/article/potential-for-informal-social-control-at-crime-hot-spots

Get the .PDF HERE

Saved by the Camera How New York Can Use Its Red-Light and Speed Cameras to Prevent Deadly Crashes

Introduction

New York City, enabled by state legislation, has long policed its roads with the help of cameras to catch vehicles running red lights and, more recently, breaking the speed limit. Such automated enforcement has helped the city reduce serious crashes by double-digit percentages, leading to a decline in fatal vehicle crashes from a modern high of 701 in 1990 to a modern low of 206 in 2018.

However, the city has not adequately used the data gleaned from red-light and speed camera tickets to help predict and thus prevent serious crashes. Reckless driving has increased since early 2020: by 2022, traffic deaths had risen to 261,2 27% above the low, thus reversing a decade of progress, before rising slightly in 2023, to 262. This increase in traffic deaths was part of a nationwide trend of reduced policing and spikes in antisocial behavior and violent deaths. The city sharply curtailed police traffic stops beginning in 2020, for example. That year, the city conducted only 510,000 stops—barely half the 985,000 stops recorded in 2019. Through November 2023, traffic stops had returned to just 70% of 2019 levels.

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