Tag: Criminal Justice System

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

New York’s ACS is failing children and kids are dying

The horrifying death of Adonis Jarvis raises a simple question: Why does New York’s ACS fail so many vulnerable children? Simple reforms, such as requiring agents to wear bodycams and demanding transparency would save lives. Kathy Hochul is standing in the way.
— Read on nypost.com/2026/08/08/opinion/new-yorks-acs-is-failing-children-and-kids-are-dying/

Predictive Risk Scores in the Public Sector: Experimental Evidence from Child-Protection Investigations | NBER

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
— Read on www.nber.org/papers/w35540

What 1,000 Studies Reveal About the Crime-Fighting Strategy Many Cities Abandoned | Law Enforcement Today | lawenforcementtoday.com

More than 1,000 studies and decades of research point to the same conclusion: proactive policing reduces crime. So why are so many departments pulling back? This analysis explores the evidence, the controversy, and the difficult decisions reshaping modern law enforcement.
— Read on lawenforcementtoday.com/proactive-policing-research-reduces-crime-analysis