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
Tag: Criminal Justice System
Building Carcerality
The U.S. carceral landscape is a loose network of sites of detention that includes jails and prisons, along with detention centers, prison camps, and juvenile detention centers. Despite the fact that these buildings each play distinct roles within legal processes, the interior spaces of carceral environments appear nearly one and the same.
In particular, the buildings share similar spatial organizations, most often a row of cell blocks organized around and oriented onto a central indoor recreation room, or a dayroom flanked by double-loaded corridors (i.e., rooms on both sides) filled with cells. Their material expression, too, is similar: the buildings are overly reliant on cold and acoustically reflective concrete masonry blocks, steel, and plastics, boasting undersaturated and austere aesthetics. Jails and prisons alike are littered with security mechanisms that syncopate passage through their hallways, in which metal doors and gates control passage from one space to the next. In these building typologies, there is a noticeable absence of natural light: the sun filters through narrow windows, and abrasive fluorescent lighting compensates for the resultant darkness.
Read more HERE
ORDER DENYING QUALIFIED IMMUNITY
Interesting read. Get the court document here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24674613/green-v-thomas.pdf
California’s Looming Crime Catastrophe | City Journal
Recent legislation makes it easier for felons to claim racial bias—potentially putting them back on the streets in large numbers.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/californias-looming-crime-catastrophe
Vital City | Does Nothing Stop a Bullet Like a Job?
Research is clear: Violence tends to be a crime of passion,
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/does-nothing-stop-a-bullet-like-a-job
The cruel consequences of America’s aging prison population – Vox
Older people are spending their dying years behind bars. The problem is only getting worse.
— Read on www.vox.com/the-highlight/24119956/prisons-elderly-aging-prisoners-criminal-justice
New Laws Are Turning Police Into ‘Supercitizens’ – The American Prospect
A series of legislative and judicial efforts have removed police oversight from oversight boards and communities.
— Read on prospect.org/justice/2024-05-08-new-laws-turning-police-into-supercitizens/
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
NYC Is Less Safe Than Publicized Data Suggest–Why? | New York Insider | EpochTV
Excellent interview with Raphael Mangual. He is spot on talking about Crime, Criminal Justice, and Policing.
New Yorkers say they feel less safe now, though some widely reported data paint a different picture.
Future of Policing 