Former Seattle Police Elliott Averett contributed an essay to my Violence Reduction Project. We talk about organized violence at protests, why police officers are leaving certain departments, and what that means for policing. Plus, qualified immunity! Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/44186060 Transcript: [00:00:04] Hello and welcome to Quality Policing. [00:00:07] I’m Peter Moskos and continuing my interviews with…
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Rather than me interview somebody else, somebody else is interviewing me! It’s from last year, but still very timely regarding the violence increase and the trial of Derek Chauvin. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/44151302 I normally don’t listen my interviews, but I saw this comment on Twitter from Professor Jerry Ratcliffe and was like, “really?” So I listened. I’m…
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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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