The Facts about COPS: A Performance Overview of the Community Oriented Policing Services Program | The Heritage Foundation

The President’s COPS program is expensive, but is it effective?
— Read on www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/the-facts-about-cops-performance-overview-the-community-oriented-policing

The 311 on NYC’s longer-than-ever 911s?

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/

Is Crime Underreporting Getting Worse? – by Jeff Asher

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

Super Speeders: Mining Speed-Camera Data to Analyze Extreme Recidivism in New York City | Published in Findings

By Marcel Moran. Mining a decade of speed-camera data in New York City finds some individual automobiles are accruing upwards of 100 or more violations per year, even as overall violations are decreasing.
— Read on findingspress.org/

High-profile incidents of police brutality sway public opinion more than performance of local law enforcement: Study

National media coverage of police brutality influences public perceptions of law enforcement more than the performance of people’s local police departments, according to data analysis from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, …
— Read on phys.org/news/2024-02-high-profile-incidents-police-brutality.html

Addictive Hypervigilance and Uncontrolled Police Use of Force by Jesse Cheng :: SSRN

Abstract
This theoretical chapter draws from Gilmartin’s (1986) conceptualization of police hypervigilance to present an “addictive hypervigilance” hypothesis of uncontrolled police use of force. The hypothesis proposes that officers can develop a behavioral addiction to a reactive, fight-or-flight physiological state that promotes the misperception of threats, impairing affected officers’ ability over time to exercise appropriate restraint in the use of force. Should the hypothesis prove valid, this chapter suggests that Gilmartin’s own clinical observations would require that hypervigilance’s fear-based, on-guard mentality be modulated through the deliberate cultivation of other professional roles.
— Read on papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm

Race & Policing | NAACP Bucks County

New Report Reveals Significant Racial Disparities in Bucks County Policing. The NAACP Bucks County 2023 Report on Reimagining Public Safety reveals racial disparities in enforcement as well as significant shortcomings in existing departmental policies. The report includes key findings and recommendations for improving the transparency and accountability of municipal policing in Bucks County.
— Read on www.naacpbucks.org/policing

Cleaning up the built environment to reduce crime – Niskanen Center

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/

Buffalo’s bad cops: Police leader says he lacks power to discipline : Investigative Post

This is an interesting read. I don’t know how the City and Police Union can enter into a contractual agreement that is contrary to State Law and expect the law not to be enforced.

Buffalo & WNY Investigative Reporting Center
— Read on www.investigativepost.org/2024/01/29/policing-buffalos-police/

The NYPD issued more than 100K fare evasion tickets last year. See how many were at your stop. – Gothamist

— Read on gothamist.com/news/the-nypd-issued-over-100k-tickets-for-fare-evasion-last-year-see-how-many-were-at-your-stop