“In Midtown, and in most of Manhattan, your chances of being harmed personally by crime are quite low,” said Jeffrey A. Butts, director of the Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “The people most at risk are in the disadvantaged, economically excluded neighborhoods.” Continue reading Midtown Manhattan Becomes America’s Stage for Acts of Violence
After a violence interrupter program was implemented in Brooklyn’s East New York section, gun injury rates fell 50 percent — compared to a 5 percent decline in nearby Flatbush, a neighborhood without such a program, according to a 2017 study from John Jay College. Continue reading Mamdani’s Public Safety Policies, Explained
Jeffrey Butts, a public safety research professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said “constant contact” with monitored individuals and their families is a key component of successful home monitoring. “The fact that the state ignored audits with detected flaws or incompetence is really bad behavior by state government,” Butts said. Continue reading Audits Show Years of Noncompliance in Maryland Home Monitoring Companies
Jeffrey Butts, a professor at John Jay College who has studied CMS’s impact, said that research supports continued investment. But he said it is difficult to predict the exact effect an expansion would have on shooting rates, and that it would depend on the implementation. Continue reading Mayoral Candidates Share Their Plans to Combat Gun Violence
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