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My View: Early Indications Suggest Crime Is Falling Despite Releases and Changes to Charging Low Level Offenses during COVID-19

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 28, 2020
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My View: Early Indications Suggest Crime Is Falling Despite Releases and Changes to Charging Low Level Offenses during COVID-19

The criminal justice reform movement is worried about the consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak hitting t ...

The criminal justice reform movement is worried about the consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak hitting the prisons and jails. The results have been slow—in places like New Jersey, at least 1000 peop ...

March 28, 2020
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Study Finds No Evidence Prop. 47 Has Led to an Increase in Violent Crime

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 14, 2018
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Study Finds No Evidence Prop. 47 Has Led to an Increase in Violent Crime

As early as 2015, Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig warned Yolo County Supervisors that Proposition 47 led to in ...

As early as 2015, Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig warned Yolo County Supervisors that Proposition 47 led to increasing property and violent crime Yolo County. “Part of the problem with Prop. 47 is that it ...

June 14, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Are Crime Rates Going Down?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 26, 2017
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Are Crime Rates Going Down?

Despite claims to the contrary, the most recent analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School ...

Despite claims to the contrary, the most recent analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law found that all measures of crime in the 30 largest cities are doing down. The three key ...

December 26, 2017
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Commentary: Crime and Police Misconduct Are Separate Issues

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 28, 2016
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Commentary: Crime and Police Misconduct Are Separate Issues

It seems like in every discussion we have on police misconduct and officer-involved shootings, someone tr ...

It seems like in every discussion we have on police misconduct and officer-involved shootings, someone tries to turn the issue back to crime. They are not the same issues. New stats came out on Monda ...

September 28, 2016
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America Is Safer Today Than It Has Been in Decades

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|Date: September 28, 2016
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America Is Safer Today Than It Has Been in Decades

By Natasha Camhi and Ames Grawert Anyone who watched Monday night’s presidential debate might think we’re ...

By Natasha Camhi and Ames Grawert Anyone who watched Monday night’s presidential debate might think we’re losing the war on crime. “We have a situation where we have our inner cities, African-American ...

September 28, 2016
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Commentary: Did Stop and Frisk Help Decrease Crime?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 27, 2016
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Commentary: Did Stop and Frisk Help Decrease Crime?

Back in 2013, New York’s stop and frisk policies were ended by federal judge Shira Scheindlin who ruled t ...

Back in 2013, New York’s stop and frisk policies were ended by federal judge Shira Scheindlin who ruled that the city had “adopted a policy of indirect racial profiling by targeting racially defined g ...

September 27, 2016
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Final Analysis of 2015 Crime Rate Paints Complex Picture

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 21, 2016
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Final Analysis of 2015 Crime Rate Paints Complex Picture

While there are some signs that increases in 2015 murder rates are reversing themselves, the Brennan Cent ...

While there are some signs that increases in 2015 murder rates are reversing themselves, the Brennan Center yesterday published its final analysis of the 2015 crime rate. Analysts Ames Grawert and Jam ...

April 21, 2016
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Crime Moves Back Down in 2016 in Davis and West Sacramento

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 06, 2016
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Crime Moves Back Down in 2016 in Davis and West Sacramento

It was nearly a month ago that Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig, along with Chief Probation Officer Brent Carda ...

It was nearly a month ago that Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig, along with Chief Probation Officer Brent Cardall, blamed the implementation of Proposition 47 on a cited rising crime rate. “All of the major ...

April 06, 2016
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Final Crime Stats Show Crime Down, But Murder Rates Up in Major Cities

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 29, 2015
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Final Crime Stats Show Crime Down, But Murder Rates Up in Major Cities

The Brennan Center For Justice released an update to their November analysis on crime, where they argue t ...

The Brennan Center For Justice released an update to their November analysis on crime, where they argue that “reports of rising crime nationwide are overblown and not supported by the available data.” ...

December 29, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Crime Analysis Finds Crime is Not Rising Across the Country

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 23, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Crime Analysis Finds Crime is Not Rising Across the Country

The Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law has conducted an analysis of 2015 crime trends in ...

The Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law has conducted an analysis of 2015 crime trends in the nation's 30 largest cities and concluded “that reports of rising crime across the country ...

November 23, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Concerns about Downtown Safety Bleed into DDBA Discussion

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 19, 2015
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Concerns about Downtown Safety Bleed into DDBA Discussion

During public comment at Tuesday's city council meeting, Paul Frydental spoke. Mr. Frydendal is the uncle ...

During public comment at Tuesday's city council meeting, Paul Frydental spoke. Mr. Frydendal is the uncle of one of the victims in a recent attack, last Saturday morning at 1:15 am, where three victim ...

November 19, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Do We Have a Problem with Crime Downtown?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 05, 2015
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Analysis: Do We Have a Problem with Crime Downtown?

Recently, in front of Mishka’s Cafe, Mayor Dan Wolk told the Sacramento Bee, “This is Davis and we’ve got ...

Recently, in front of Mishka’s Cafe, Mayor Dan Wolk told the Sacramento Bee, “This is Davis and we’ve got a problem here… We can’t just move on like nothing happened here. We’ve got to see what’s goin ...

November 05, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: The Kids Are Alright

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 25, 2015
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Commentary: The Kids Are Alright

It seems to be that in every major civilization, the older generation believes that the younger generatio ...

It seems to be that in every major civilization, the older generation believes that the younger generation’s moral depravity will lead to the downfall of civilization. For the most part, that doesn’t ...

September 25, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: Are Murder Rates Really on the Rise?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 08, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: Are Murder Rates Really on the Rise?

We have noted for the last few weeks a growing belief among many that murder rates are rising and the #bl ...

We have noted for the last few weeks a growing belief among many that murder rates are rising and the #blacklivesmatter movement, according to some conservative publications, is to blame. Last week, t ...

September 08, 2015
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Analysis Finds Little Evidence to Support a “Ferguson Effect” on Crime

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 16, 2015
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Analysis Finds Little Evidence to Support a “Ferguson Effect” on Crime

The Sentencing Project put out a new analysis this morning finding little support for a so-called “Fergus ...

The Sentencing Project put out a new analysis this morning finding little support for a so-called “Ferguson effect” on crime in St. Louis, Missouri. The “Ferguson effect” describes a conjecture by som ...

June 16, 2015
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Can School Choice Really Impact the School to Prison Pipeline?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 28, 2015
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Can School Choice Really Impact the School to Prison Pipeline?

Earlier this week, Gloria Romero, a former majority leader in the California Senate and director of the C ...

Earlier this week, Gloria Romero, a former majority leader in the California Senate and director of the California Center for Parent Empowerment, and RiShawn Biddle, editor of Dropout Nation, describe ...

January 28, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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