Similarly, Jeffrey Butts, director of the Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told the New York Times in February there was no evidence of a migrant crime wave in New York City after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing migrants there in April 2022. Continue reading Fact-checking the Biden-Trump Debate
“I would interpret a ‘wave’ to mean something significant, meaningful and a departure from the norm,” Butts said. “So far, what we have are individual incidents of crime.” Continue reading Trump’s Bogus Attack on FBI Crime Statistics
“When COVID hit we saw this spike, so from 2020 to 2022 it was bad but… it still came nowhere near where we were in the 1990s,” Butts said, noting crime soon began to drop again as expected. Continue reading FBI data shows America is seeing a ‘considerable’ drop in crime. Trump says the opposite.
In Baton Rouge, a public safety experiment could help to answer a critical question: Do community efforts to reduce street violence work? New York Timesby Mark ObbiePhotographs by Dean MajdBaton Rouge, LAApril 22, 2024 … [I]n 1999, a Chicago epidemiologist named Gary Slutkin picked up an old idea of using outreach workers to mediate street disputes. Framing the problem in public health terms, he argued … Continue reading A City Tries to Measure the Violence It’s Preventing
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