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Since the election, Alicia Parlapiano + I have been scouring for evidence that urban ills — rising rents, long school closures, homelessness, pandemic disruptions — help explain why cities shifted toward Trump as they did. And we just couldn't find much.

The feeling that economic inequality leads to social unrest is mounting. Here is a brief overview of the current academic evidence.

Our new book Entangled is out now!   My colleagues & I looked at how people with serious mental illness are impacted by misdemeanor criminal legal systems as well as necessary reforms that can empower them to move toward recovery. appi.org/Products/Gener… Brandon del Pozo

Baltimore's drop in homicides - 23% since last year and a staggering 40% from two years ago - should be a national story. Mayor Scott's Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which prioritizes resources to those most at risk and community engagement, should be studied and replicated.

Police officers think Broken Windows applies to everyone but them.

This new paper is so cool! It shows that the media use language structures—such as passive voice, nominalizations, and intransitive verbs—that obscure responsibility more often in cases of police killings than in cases of civilian killings. Then, in an experiment, it shows

Harvard's Library Innovation Lab just released all 311,000 datasets from data .gov, totalling 16 TB.🫡🫡 This is a complete archive of federal public datasets harvested during 2024-2025, updated daily.

No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid way more than other countries' police The critical question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little police work? From my paper w/ Mickey & Ziblatt

if an Abundance goal is to "make government work" by cutting out various cartels that kludge up everything then there should be no clearer target than police departments

🚨 The Trump administration has ended our funding for key public safety programs that serve communities across the country. We’re calling this what it is: a RECKLESS attack on public safety and criminal justice reform.

Trump’s “opening salvo” in his war against criminal justice reform starts with this one nonprofit. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

"Gates was a key architect in the transformation of American policing, an innovator of policing technologies whose tactics were widely adopted by departments across the country during his tenure in Los Angeles." Aaron Stagoff on Gates and his legacy: themetropole.blog/2025/05/07/the…

In the modern era, even “riots” and “violent” protests generate support, not backlash. The pundits on here just aren’t up on the evidence.

Only freaks are scared of the subway. The subway is nice and good. hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-i…

Baltimore's progressive mayor Brandon Scott took a public health approach to violence prevention, and the city is on track to have its smallest number of murders and shootings in 60 years. This is huge for Baltimore.

BOMBSHELL suits from former top brass says Mayor Adams' NYPD sold promotions, stole overtime, abused bodycams and promoted unqualified cops into sensitive positions. Those who raised concerns, like former top det. James Essig, were told to take huge demotions - or resign.