Scott welcomes Heather Mac Donald, one of the country’s most important voices who exposes the truth and the data behind it. Heather is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor of City Journal. Her latest book is When Race Trumps Merit. In it she explains what she calls the foolish pursuit of undermining meritocracy in favor of equal outcome. They discuss critical social issues including crime, media bias, and cultural shifts, including the feminization of American society and an anti-male narrative that MacDonald sees as harmful to families and societal success.
— Read on www.independent.org/multimedia/2025/09/04/heather-mac-donald-crime-stats-dont-lie-why-are-we-ignoring-them-ep-53/
Tag: Crime
Bail Studies: The Six Most Significant Surety Bail Studies Ever Conducted – AIA Bail Bond Surety
This is a 6 part series. The link below is to the introduction.
Bail Studies: The Six Most Significant Surety Bail Studies Ever Conducted: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth.
— Read on www.aiasurety.com/bail/bail-studies/
Don’t Black Lives Matter? Confronting the Problem of Disproportionate Black Victimization, 53 Fordham Urb. L.J. 449 (2025).
Rutherford v. US: Supreme Court Suggests Any Compassion For Criminal Defendants Is Too Much | Balls and Strikes
Congress gave judges the power to shorten a prison term if “extraordinary and compelling reasons” warrant relief. But the Republican justices on the Supreme Court won’t let judges use it.
— Read on ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supreme-court-hates-compassionate-release/
Washington, D.C.’s crime decline and its lessons for American policing – Niskanen Center
Washington, D.C., offers a rare opportunity to study how police departments throughout the country might, and in fact must, do more with less. Since reaching a dramatic peak in 2023, violent and property crime in the District has fallen sharply — even as the police force shrank to its smallest size in half a century.
— Read on www.niskanencenter.org/washington-dc-crime-decline-and-its-lessons-for-american-policing/
Vital City | Did NYPD’s Zone Strategy Cause the Crime Drop?
The NYPD says its deployment zones are driving sharp crime declines. A closer look at the numbers raises harder questions about what’s actually behind the drop.
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/nypd-zone-strategy-crime-drop-analysis/
New York City’s Other Violent Crime Problem
New York’s leaders have been rightly celebrating the city’s major reductions in murder and gun violence. But the city still struggles with a different violent crime problem: record-high assault rates. The causes are difficult to parse from the data alone, but the trend bodes poorly for long-term safety and stability. Start with the good news. […]
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/new-york-citys-other-violent-crime-problem
A Wisconsin YouTube channel makes big money from police body cam videos. Is it educational? – WPR
NOTE: Some videos are members only and there is a fee to subscribe. There is a public section which is free.
The Wisconsin-based YouTube channel Code Blue Cam has more than 3 million subscribers and 1.15 billion total views.
— Read on www.wpr.org/justice/law-enforcement/wisconsin-youtube-channel-code-blue-cam-police-body-cameras
Vital City | Does When We’re Born Make Us Who We Are?
Robert J. Sampson talks to Adam Gopnik about crime, time and life trajectories
A podcast is also available.
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/robert-sampson-adam-gopnik-interview-transcript/
Traffic Tickets Issued in New York State
Traffic Tickets Issued: Four Year Window
Data extracted from records of tickets on file with NYS DMV. The tickets were issued to motorists for violations of: NYS Vehicle & Traffic Law (VTL), Thruway Rules and Regulations, Tax Law, Transportation Law, Parks and Recreation Regulations, Local New York City Traffic Ordinances, and NYS Penal Law pertaining to the involvement of a motor vehicle in acts of assault, homicide, manslaughter and criminal negligence resulting in injury or death.
Read more HERE
This is the direct link to the data HERE
Future of Policing 