“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
A community-leveraged, public health approach to CVI is likely the best, most cost-effective strategy for building safe and healthy communities. But, evidence for the approach is not yet durable. It is just flimsy enough to be cast aside by conservative lawmakers and unimaginative funders dazzled by the decades of research on more easily proven, individually-oriented approaches to public safety. Continue reading Social Harms of the CVI Binary
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
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
