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Quality Policing Episode 6

A new episode of Quality Policing is out. Check it out. We talk about many things including the DC body cam study that seems to show body cams don’t change anything. We beg to differ. Body cams just don’t change what people think they do. We don’t, however, talk about the details of the dirty gun squad in the Baltimore…

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Cops in Conservative Cities Shoot & Kill More Often

Forbes came out with a list of the 10 most conservative and liberal cities in America. Top ten conservative, in rank order: Mesa Oklahoma City Virginia beach colorado springs Jacksonville Arlington, TX Anaheim Omaha Tulsa Aurora Top ten liberal, in rank order: San Fran DC Seattle Oakland Boston Minneapolis Detroit NYC Buffalo Baltimore I’m not going to argue with the…

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Quality Policing Podcast

Nick Selby and I have a new episode over at qualitypolicing.com. Among other things, we manage to have a rational debate about gun control. Imagine that. It’s Episode Five. (And yet somehow, from two people who claim to be good with numbers, we now have ten episodes.)

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Two-year homicide increase in cities

Now that the UCR data for last year is out, here is the homicide rate increase in cities over 400,000 people. This is two year, 2014-2016. Homicide is up in 40 of the 48 largest cities.