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Murders in concentrated locations
There’s an article by Frank Main in the Chicago Sun-Times about the deadliest police district in Chicago. It’s a small area on the West Side of Chicago. My eyes went to the blue area, below. About 3...
View ArticleThe Violence Reduction Project
It’s up. It’s live. It’s a bunch of smart people and their ideas about what to do about violence, right now. https://qualitypolicing.com/violencereduction/
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2020: A Bad Year
I’m just playing with charts and data presentation. If I graphed the number of people shot in NYC and the percent change on the previous year, it’s a challenge when a number that is between -20 and +7...
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Storming of the Capitol
The these clips are all taken from a 40-minute video by John Sullivan, aka Jayden X. (He was clearly into this, by the way, assisting and cheering along. But document he did.) I’ll taken some clips...
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Shooting in NYC, 2020
Quality of life / Broken Windows policing has basically ended in NYC. There simply is no proactive enforcement. Every category is down, from open container to public pissing to being in a park after...
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New Violence Becomes the New Normal
Baltimore is one of the only cities in America that didn’t see a rise in murder in 2020. (The other being Newark, NJ.) That’s the good news. The bad news is that murder in Baltimore increased by 2/3rd...
View ArticlePolice and Crowd Control
You’d think after the Capitol Storming and a general year of protests, politicians would be talking about the best tactics in terms of safety and effectiveness in terms of crowd control. But best I...
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Quality Policing Podcast
While I haven’t posted here a couple months, I’ve done a bunch of interviews and you can listen and/or watch them at the Quality Policing Podcast.
View ArticleFOP Baltimore Blueprint
This was released 9 years ago. It was ignored. It wasn’t a bad plan. Had it been adopted, a lot might have been better. FOP-Baltimore-blueprint-2012Download It’s interesting to me because I’m not a...
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Baltimore Stops Policing
I thought not clearing drug corners after the 2015 riots was a big deal. It was. Murders nearly doubled. But “little” things like this are big deals. And very few will notice the cause and effect...
View ArticleA list of police-centered and police-related crime reduction studies
It’s strangely common that some people assert — often on twitter — something like, “we KNOW police don’t prevent crime.” It’s like some mantra that they hope people will believe if they repeat it...
View ArticleThe beginning of Compstat
A new podcast episode talks about the origin stories of NYPD’s compstat with, William Gorta, one of the “founding fathers.” https://qualitypolicing.com/qpp-51-william-gorta-part-1-2/
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Arrests down 25% in 2020?
I’m going to start with a bunch of caveats. A) This is crude data analysis. B) It it based on incomplete Uniform Crime Report data dependent on reliable data reported (not a given). C) I may have...
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