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A conversation with Seneca Scott on the Bay Area city’s interlinked public safety and budget crises
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/oaklands-doom-loop
Juvenile Court Statistics 2021 draws on data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive (Archive) to profile 437,300 delinquency cases and 51,500 petitioned status offense cases handled in 2021 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. The report also tracks trends in delinquency and petitioned status cases between 2005 and 2021. The data used in this report were contributed to the Archive by nearly 2,400 courts with jurisdiction over 83% of the juvenile population in 2021.
— Read on www.ncjj.org/Publication/Juvenile-Court-Statistics-2021.aspx
Crime trends are deeply linked to out-of-state gun purchases.
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/new-yorks-iron-pipeline-problem
A new report finds that, despite record spending on law enforcement, crime-solving is at record lows.
** I bet there is more to this than the report reveals.
— Read on www.cjcj.org/reports-publications/report/california-law-enforcement-agencies-are-spending-more-but-solving-fewer-crimes
Despite high-profile episodes, nothing in the data at this point suggests any broad-based or wide scale increases in crime is being driven by the arrival of tens of thousands of migrants in New York City.
— Read on www.nydailynews.com/2024/02/10/fears-of-a-migrant-crime-wave-are-growing-in-nyc-but-actual-evidence-is-scant/
Wait times for police calls in New York City have never ben longer.
— Read on nypost.com/2024/02/10/opinion/the-311-on-nycs-longer-than-ever-911s/
One of the common responses to my piece from last week on the widespread — albeit preliminary — reported decline in murder and crime could be summarized in the below comment from Twitter: “How accurate can recent burglary/larceny crime stats be when we know they’re not being recorded in many locations where such theft won’t be prosecuted? I imagine the same goes for some other stats here.”
— Read on jasher.substack.com/p/is-crime-underreporting-getting-worse
Does New York’s Bail Reform Law Impact Recidivism? A Quasi-Experimental Test in the State’s Suburban and Upstate Regions – Data Collaborative for Justice
— Read on datacollaborativeforjustice.org/work/bail-reform/does-new-yorks-bail-reform-law-impact-recidivism-a-quasi-experimental-test-in-the-states-suburban-and-upstate-regions/
In every city, a small group of blocks generate most of the serious crime. Place-based crime reduction strategies are grounded in some of the most critical insights made by crime scholars in the past forty years.
— Read on www.niskanencenter.org/cleaning-up-the-built-environment-to-reduce-crime/
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