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A City Tries to Measure the Violence It’s Preventing

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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‘Migrant Crime Wave’ Not Supported by Data, Despite High-Profile Cases

Jeffrey Butts, director of the Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that there was no discernible migrant crime wave. “I would interpret a ‘wave’ to mean something significant, meaningful, and a departure from the norm,” he said. “So far, what we have are individual incidents of crime.” Continue reading ‘Migrant Crime Wave’ Not Supported by Data, Despite High-Profile Cases

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