This is another great article with so much useful information. I have told all of my friends about this resource (and both of them really enjoyed it. I kid, i have 3 friends, actually). Anyway, I'm really interested in the last half of this report. The violence prevention and rehabilitation programs seem like they are the critical piece. Assume, for the sake of argument, that the renewed focus by the city and the feds pans out, and the arrests, prosecution, and incarceration rates all improve. What happens then? How do these violence prevention programs and intervention programs work? Or, rather, how are they intended to work? (The stats at the end of this post for the programs DC has so far aren't promising.) What are other cities, states, and countries doing to get these people out of the cycle of crime and violence, and how can we implement those tactics? Joe Friday's analysis of the crime and prosecution stats is so clear and useful, I would love to see him focus on some prevention prescriptions. Keep it up!
Thank you! I do want to dig more into the prevention programs and hopefully with the performance oversight hearings in February we'll FINALLY get some updated data from ONSE and OAG. The fact that they are so stingy with data really limited what I could do for this post but I agree that they are very important. There are also some interesting models in other cities that we could learn from. More to follow.
Have you taking any deep looks at the social media content that leads to these confrontations or is it harder to find? There’s a subreddit for some of it but even that feels like just scratching the surface.
Researching and writing these posts is a tremendous public service. Thank you.
This is another great article with so much useful information. I have told all of my friends about this resource (and both of them really enjoyed it. I kid, i have 3 friends, actually). Anyway, I'm really interested in the last half of this report. The violence prevention and rehabilitation programs seem like they are the critical piece. Assume, for the sake of argument, that the renewed focus by the city and the feds pans out, and the arrests, prosecution, and incarceration rates all improve. What happens then? How do these violence prevention programs and intervention programs work? Or, rather, how are they intended to work? (The stats at the end of this post for the programs DC has so far aren't promising.) What are other cities, states, and countries doing to get these people out of the cycle of crime and violence, and how can we implement those tactics? Joe Friday's analysis of the crime and prosecution stats is so clear and useful, I would love to see him focus on some prevention prescriptions. Keep it up!
Thank you! I do want to dig more into the prevention programs and hopefully with the performance oversight hearings in February we'll FINALLY get some updated data from ONSE and OAG. The fact that they are so stingy with data really limited what I could do for this post but I agree that they are very important. There are also some interesting models in other cities that we could learn from. More to follow.
Have you taking any deep looks at the social media content that leads to these confrontations or is it harder to find? There’s a subreddit for some of it but even that feels like just scratching the surface.