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“Not on my post, you don’t”

Thinking about lobbies and public housing and policing…. Take the Jackie Robinson Homes, “an 8-story building with 189 apartments housing some 440 residents.” Last year there was an issue with kids raising hell. Residents were scared. So lets say there are 600 people living there in the Jackie Robinson Home (since many live off lease). Put a cop there. What…

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Let’s Rethink Patrol

Here’s another piece of mine in CNN, also out today. I hope this gets a bit of attention because I was able to move past the headlines (thanks to my wonderful editor at CNN for her encouragement and mad editing skillz) to question the very concept police patrol. That’s the type of moderately deep-thinking that is hard to get published…

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Bratton tweak Operation Impact…

…By putting rookie officers with more veteran officers. This should have been a no-brainer years ago. Partnering dumb with dumber — both right out of the police academy, both sometimes clueless white boys from Long Island — was never a brilliant idea (though even then it did help reduce crime). Rookie cops faced with quota pressure who could not distinguish…

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High Crime Neighborhood + Cops on Bikes = Less Crime

From the Chicago Tribune: The [Chicago] impact zones, established in February 2013 after a violent 2012, comprise just 3 percent of the city’s geographic area but account for one-fifth of its violent crime, according to the department. From the Sun Times: In March 2013, the department began assigning foot patrol offers to the high-crime areas. McCarthy said feedback from the…

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The NYPD is a-changin’

Bratton Tells Chiefs He’ll Stop Sending Rookies to High-Crime Areas And, as you probably know, DeBlasio is dropping the city’s appeal to the stop and frisk lawsuit. But hoping to limit a federal monitor to 3 years. In response: “Four unions representing NYPD officers have filed appeals and motions opposing dismissal of the city’s appeal, which are pending.” Good times.…

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In Praise of the Beat Cop

In the current issue of New York’s Transportation Alternative’s Reclaimmagazine. [And dig the picture of me, from 12 years ago:] [photo by Amy Eckert]

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Back to the Future

Back in 1829 London, Robert Peel and Company said that every police officer, “should be able to see every part of his beat, at least once in ten minutes or a quarter of an hour.” That’s a pretty good “response time.” Craaazy, I thought. But is it? I think there are 6,000 miles of streets in New York City. I…

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Philadelphia Foot Patrol Experiment!

Rarely to get exciting reading articles in academic journals (whether that says bad thing about me or the journals I leave to you), but this is exciting: “The Philadelphia Foot Patrol Experiment: A Randomized Controlled Trial Of Police Patrol Effectiveness In Violent Crime Hotspots.” It’s in the current issue of Criminology (like most academic journals, unavailable to the general public).…

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