My blog has moved, for a current list of academic research and studies that focus on police-centered and police-related crime reductions, please go: https://qualitypolicing.com/a-list-of-police-centered-and-police-related-crime-reduction-studies/ For more ways to reduce violence, see the collection of essays at my Violence Reduction Project.
Category: academics
When you believe in crazy…
So last night I listened to a online discussion with Bill Bratton and Connie Rice. Bratton, you probably know, is the former police commissioner/chief of the NYPD and LAPD. Rice graduated from Harvard and NYU Law and is a civil rights attorney, activist, and a former member of President Barack Obama’s Taskforce on 21st Century Policing. That last part matters.…
Issues with analyzing police use of deadly force
Justin Nix has a good article (academic, but plain English and not behind paywall) about the dangers of using cops-killing-people as a variable. He writes in response to an article by Schwartz and Jahn that maps “police violence” across U.S. metropolitan areas. Schwartz and Jahn find, as have I, that Rates of police-related fatalities varied dramatically, with the deadliest MSAs…