Quality Policing Podcast
While I haven’t posted here a couple months, I’ve done a bunch of interviews and you can listen and/or watch them at the Quality Policing Podcast.
While I haven’t posted here a couple months, I’ve done a bunch of interviews and you can listen and/or watch them at the Quality Policing Podcast.
Nick Selby, the original co-host of this very podcast, comes back to talk about cybercrime security. What it is, why it matter, and what police departments can do better. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/44055818 In the episode we discuss this NPR piece by Martin Kaste. And this article in USA Today, by Nick Selby. Here’s a screen shot…
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I speak with Professor Laura Huey about, among other things, “supportive reporting,” her essay in the Violence Reduction Project. It’s a way to have non-police agencies serve as a bridge between police departments and people reluctant to call police. Here’s the line from Egon Bittner we were referencing: “The role of the police is best…
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Jeff Asher is a data analyst and he talks about the shift in national crime data reporting and collection from the UCR (Uniform Crime Report) Summary Reporting System (S.R.S.) to the National Incident Based Response System (NIBRS). He wrote about it recently for the New York Times. Audio: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43966173 Short version: incrementally better, but the…
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Rosa Brooks is the author of “Tangled Up In Blue: Policing the American City.” Audio: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43953260 And for those who prefer to watch talking heads: Transcript: [00:00:04] Hello and welcome back to Quality Policing. I am Peter Moskos and I am here today with Rosa Brooks. Rosa recently written a book, Tangled Up In Blue:…
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Justin Fenton is a Baltimore Sun reporter and the author of “We Own This City,” about Baltimore’s Gun Trace Task Force. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43939796 You can also watch this episode on youtube! (I’ve never been certain why people would want to, but knock yourself out.) Transcript: [00:00:04] Hello and welcome to Quality Policing. I am Peter…
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You’d think after the Capitol Storming and a general year of protests, politicians would be talking about the best tactics in terms of safety and effectiveness in terms of crowd control. But best I can tell, the calls are simply to ban every police tool used. Police (really through no fault but their own) have…
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Baltimore is one of the only cities in America that didn’t see a rise in murder in 2020. (The other being Newark, NJ.) That’s the good news. The bad news is that murder in Baltimore increased by 2/3rd after the riots of April 27, 2015 and a subsequent change in policing (“depolicing”) as demanded by…
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Quality of life / Broken Windows policing has basically ended in NYC. There simply is no proactive enforcement. Every category is down, from open container to public pissing to being in a park after hours. Collectively all these categories (listed below) resulted in tens of thousands of police public contacts. It correlates with the largest…
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The these clips are all taken from a 40-minute video by John Sullivan, aka Jayden X. (He was clearly into this, by the way, assisting and cheering along. But document he did.) I’ll taken some clips from his video. The full video is here. It’s worth watching, because these events always are about the passage…
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