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Same great blog; New great location!

I’m going to start posting future posts over here at https://qualitypolicing.com/. (No point in keeping two blogs sites, especially when the posts are infrequent.)

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Fewer people shot and killed by police

I think this is the first time anybody has been able to compare police use-of-lethal force, apples-to-apples, over 50 years, with honest, reliable, and accurate data! It would be better to have total number of people shot by cops, simply to have a larger n (a bigger sample, for statistical reasons), but the problem is those numbers don’t reliably exist…

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NY arrests, pre-trial release, and rearrests

Far be it for me to say if these changes are because of changes in law, police, bail reform, or prosecution,but things have changed in NY. And blaming “bail reform” may be simplistic. But crime AND recidivism have gotten worse, and “changes in law, policing, bail reform, discovery reform, the diaphragm law, raise the age, Less is More Act, and…

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The Rebirth of 42nd Street

The first excerpt from my book has been published by the (very) good people at Vital City. Check it out: https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/peter-moskos-oral-history-times-square

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Arrests down 25% in 2020?

I’m going to start with a bunch of caveats. A) This is crude data analysis. B) It it based on incomplete Uniform Crime Report data dependent on reliable data reported (not a given). C) I may have simply done this wrong. It’s 2AM. D) This is important: arrests are NOT good for their own sake, but most policing is discretionary.…

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The beginning of Compstat

A new podcast episode talks about the origin stories of NYPD’s compstat with, William Gorta, one of the “founding fathers.” https://qualitypolicing.com/qpp-51-william-gorta-part-1-2/

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A list of police-centered and police-related crime reduction studies

My blog has moved, for a current list of academic research and studies that focus on police-centered and police-related crime reductions, please go: https://qualitypolicing.com/a-list-of-police-centered-and-police-related-crime-reduction-studies/ For more ways to reduce violence, see the collection of essays at my Violence Reduction Project.

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Baltimore Stops Policing

I thought not clearing drug corners after the 2015 riots was a big deal. It was. Murders nearly doubled. But “little” things like this are big deals. And very few will notice the cause and effect after the fact. That’s the shame. There’s no accountability for what are purely political decision. “Cops are pulling back!” they’ll say. And it’s true.…

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FOP Baltimore Blueprint

This was released 9 years ago. It was ignored. It wasn’t a bad plan. Had it been adopted, a lot might have been better. It’s interesting to me because I’m not a big fan of police unions. But I am fan of unions. And here’s a union not fear mongering or being racist but trying to do good. And the…

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