“Robbery statistics depend on citizen reporting,” said Jeffrey Butts, director of the Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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Ticket Punch: The Consequences of Fare Evasion Enforcement in New York City Subways
Researchers investigated transit fare evasion in New York City subway stations between 2018 and 2023.
Collateral Consequences: The Effects of Justice Processing for Violations of Drug Laws in New York City
Researchers investigated whether drug arrests in neighborhoods are associated with changes in community well-being.
FBI data shows America is seeing a ‘considerable’ drop in crime. Trump says the opposite.
“When COVID hit we saw this spike, so from 2020 to 2022 it was bad but… it still came nowhere near where we were in the 1990s,” Butts said, noting crime soon began to drop again as expected.
A City Tries to Measure the Violence It’s Preventing
“I see it becoming a faith-based movement,” Dr. Butts said. “There has to be really transparent professional research in order to stand up in public and say this works.” When it comes to community-based interventions, he added, “we are nowhere close to having that.”
Color Contrast: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in New York City Law Enforcement
Racial differences in police contacts are not de facto evidence of bias, but monitoring could help guard equity.