“The things that make communities safe have nothing to do with patrol cars and badges.”
Tag: new york city
Albany’s Justice Reform Agenda: Raise the Age Needs Funding for it to Work
A recent report from John Jay College of Criminal Justice found that the share of felony dangerous weapons offenses committed by people under 18 in New York City has actually decreased since Raise the Age was passed in 2017.
Mom-and-Pop Drugstores Thrive as Chain Pharmacies Close in New York
Since 2006, pharmacy theft has risen by more than 500 percent — more than any other category of retail, according to a recent report by researchers at John Jay College.
What America’s shoplifting panic is really about
“If punishment was the key to public safety, we’d be the safest country in the world,” said Jeffrey Butts, the director of the Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “You get more public safety by working on underlying problems.”
Designing Safety
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.
Police drone use in NYC prompts questions about privacy, discrimination
“It’s not surprising to see law enforcement get more comfortable with using various technologies,” Dr. Jeffrey Butts, a professor at John Jay College in New York City said. “The concern about law enforcement would be the fairness or equity with which they use those technologies.”