Reviewing Lee Zeldin’s focus on crime in New York City
“Violent crime was twice the rate in the mid-90s as it is now,” Jeffrey Butts, research professor and director of the Research & Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told City & State. Continue reading Reviewing Lee Zeldin’s focus on crime in New York City
CBS News — Violent Crime
CBS News’ Anne-Marie Green breaks down what the numbers show, then she and Vladimir Duthiers speak with Jeffrey Butts, Ph.D., from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, about what’s driving these numbers and related racial disparities. Continue reading CBS News — Violent Crime
Community Safety as a Public Health Issue: Yale Law School
My contributions to a discussion at Yale Law School stressed the need to build community violence prevention with credible evidence rather than progressive rhetoric. Continue reading Community Safety as a Public Health Issue: Yale Law School
Bronx Osborne Gun Accountability and Prevention (BOGAP) Program
The John Jay College Research and Evaluation Center (JohnJayREC) received a research grant in September 2022 from the National Institute of Justice to support the U.S. Department of Justice’s Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI). Continue reading Bronx Osborne Gun Accountability and Prevention (BOGAP) Program
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