Are American cities crime-ridden hellscapes proper now? Have cities rebounded from pandemic-era murder spikes? Why do subway shootings in New York and carjackings in D.C. preserve making the information?
“I think a lot of this has to be disaggregated: There is a public order problem, and there is a violent crime problem, and they’re not necessarily the same problem,” Peter Moskos, a professor at John Jay School of Legal Justice in New York Metropolis and former Baltimore cop, tells Purpose‘s Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe on the most recent episode of Simply Asking Questions.
They mentioned the professionals and cons of broken-windows policing, how “soft-on-crime” district attorneys have an effect on the cities they’re tasked with retaining secure, and whether or not New York Metropolis ought to grow to be extra like Singapore by cracking down on petty crimes.
Watch the complete dialog on Purpose‘s YouTube channel or on the Simply Asking Questions podcast feed on Apple, Spotify, or your most popular podcatcher.
Sources referenced on this dialog:
- “More Americans See U.S. Crime Problem as Serious,” by Jeffrey F. Jones in Gallup
- Crime Information Explorer
- “Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Mid-Year 2023 Update,” by the Council on Legal Justice, which tracks charges of murder and different main crimes in 37 choose cities.
- New York Metropolis’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s December 2023 crime report
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“National Guard and State Police Will Patrol the Subways and Check Bags,” by Maria Cramer and in The New York Occasions
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The Purpose Basis’s research on Ferguson, by Vittorio Nastasi and Caroline Greer
- “The correlation between more police enforcement and fewer shooting incidents in NYC,” by Peter Moskos
- Fifty years of officer-involved capturing knowledge, compiled by Peter Moskos