Audits Show Years of Noncompliance in Maryland Home Monitoring Companies
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
Mayoral Candidates Share Their Plans to Combat Gun Violence
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
In a Brooklyn Neighborhood, Residents — Not Police — Take the Lead on Preventing Violence
“Any shooting costs about $300,000 minimum, and that’s not even assuming that there was an injury as a result,” said Jeffrey Butts, a researcher at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and director of the John Jay Research and Evaluation Center. Continue reading In a Brooklyn Neighborhood, Residents — Not Police — Take the Lead on Preventing Violence
Investing in Maryland Safety
Maryland takes a comprehensive approach to youth justice. In 2023, Governor Moore recruited Vincent Schiraldi to be Secretary of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services (DJS). Schiraldi is one of the nation’s foremost public safety experts and agency leaders. He was familiar with the numerous policy tensions involved in youth justice. He knew elected officials and the general public look instinctively to law enforcement and punishment in response to youth crime concerns. However, he also knew that punishment-only approaches inevitably fail to protect the public. Effective crime prevention must work on multiple fronts simultaneously and must do so without causing undue harm. Continue reading Investing in Maryland Safety
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