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Where are the Answers to Stop Urban Violence?

A question. OK. Several questions. But the big question, the point of this post, is where are the answers to stop urban violence? I ask this because we can all agree that street violence is, and has been, off the hook for some time now. That we know. Even despite the gazillion theories about why […]

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Worth a Look: Did Performance Measurement Cause America’s Police Problem?

Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene recently published an interesting article in Governing titled Did Performance Measurement Cause America’s Police Problem? The article is definitely worth a few minutes to read.   Sparrow points out that the two most commonly used measures of police work — crime reduction and enforcement productivity “fail to reflect the very best […]

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