Researchers investigated transit fare evasion in New York City subway stations between 2018 and 2023.
Researchers investigated transit fare evasion in New York City subway stations between 2018 and 2023.
Researchers investigated whether drug arrests in neighborhoods are associated with changes in community well-being.
“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.
“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.”
Racial differences in police contacts are not de facto evidence of bias, but monitoring could help guard equity.
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.