The John Jay College Research and Evaluation Center and the Urban Institute helped the National League of Cities’ Center for Municipal Practice to support local government leaders in five U.S. cities as they worked to reimagine their visions for public safety. Continue reading Reimagining Community Safety
Partial Results from a Contract Issued in Response to the New York City Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative Plan by Sheyla A. Delgado Gina Moreno Fidel Osorio Richard Espinobarros and Jeffrey A. Butts John Jay Research and Evaluation Center August 2024 In 2021, the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) contracted with several research centers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice … Continue reading Ticket Punch: The Consequences of Fare Evasion Enforcement in New York City Subways
The general goal of the analysis was to determine whether more drug arrests in a neighborhood are associated with changes in a community’s economic well-being. The results indicate that, on average, a one percent increase in drug arrests is associated with a two percent decline in assessed property values, and the effect is lagged: drug arrests this year tend to affect property tax assessments three years from now. Continue reading Collateral Consequences: The Effects of Justice Processing for Violations of Drug Laws in New York City
Simple differences in law enforcement contacts controlling for race and ethnicity are not de facto evidence of police bias, but monitoring disparity measures could help public officials guard the equity of justice policies and practices. Continue reading Color Contrast: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in New York City Law Enforcement
New York’s Osborne Association operates a reentry program called “Prepare” for fathers and father figures returning home from prison. With funding from the Office of Family Assistance within the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Prepare program aims to improve relationships between formerly incarcerated fathers and their children using a family-centered approach focusing on parenting and workforce skills with one year of follow-up support. Continue reading The Osborne Association Prepare Program: Recidivism Analysis
New York City’s Department of Youth and Community Development implemented three potentially effective programs to prevent violence, reduce crime, and support resident well-being. Effective evaluations rely on detailed frameworks that guide data collection, data analysis, and the interpretation of results. To design reliable evaluations of complex programs, researchers collaborate with policymakers, agency leaders, program staff, and community residents to create detailed evaluation frameworks, revising them as necessary to account for changes in policy and practice. The evaluation frameworks presented here are draft versions offered as starting points for efforts to employ evidence-based public safety strategies in New York City. Continue reading Designing Safety
