What Big Pot doesn’t want you to know about costs of legalizing marijuana
Lobbyists and lawmakers everywhere like to make bold-but-reality-challenged claims to advance legislation. But in its push to legalize...
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- Jun 2, 2019
- 6 min
Like it or not, broken windows works
By: William J. Bratton as seen in the NY Daily News One of the foundations of New York City’s public safety renaissance is falling out of...
- Jun 1, 2019
- 1 min
Broken Windows Works
Broken Windows policing receives credit—rightly—for being part of the crime turnaround that saved New York and other cities. The theory,...
- May 31, 2019
- 1 min
Joe Biden: Be Proud of Your Crime Bill
Joe Biden has been attacked by politicians on the left — and now, thanks to Donald Trump, on the right — for his role in shepherding the...
- May 29, 2019
- 1 min
One dangerous bail reform law
As part of this year’s budget bill, the Legislature has passed a measure that will greatly reduce the number of arrested persons for whom...
- May 28, 2019
- 1 min
Paging Bill Bratton – you’re needed in Boston
William J. Bratton is the former police commissioner of New York, Los Angeles — and Boston — who became famous for implementing the...
- May 17, 2019
- 1 min
A Visionary of Public Order
Law-abiding residents of high-crime neighborhoods keep proving George Kelling right and most of his colleagues wrong. Kelling, 83, died...
- May 16, 2019
- 1 min
George L. Kelling, a Father of ‘Broken Windows’ Policing, Is Dead at 83
George L. Kelling, a criminologist whose “broken windows” theory, conceived with James Q. Wilson, revolutionized policing in America by...
- May 5, 2019
- 1 min
James O’Neill: Crime reforms would make NYC more dangerous
The city could get a taste of the bad old days if a series of looming legislative changes aren’t handled properly, NYPD Commissioner...
- Apr 20, 2019
- 1 min
Judge frees gang member, orders him to write report on gun violence
He’s getting to write his wrong. A Brooklyn gangbanger got busted with a loaded, stolen revolver in a caught-on-video incident — but a...
- Apr 18, 2019
- 1 min
If Cuomo’s parole board can free terrorist Judith Clark, it’ll free anyone
The decision Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Parole Board to set free onetime domestic terrorist Judith Clark decades ahead of schedule...
- Apr 13, 2019
- 1 min
Massachusetts legal pot sales sparking illicit marijuana market
Massachusetts police say they are seeing a thriving underground marijuana market, which is booming four months after the launch of legal...
- Apr 13, 2019
- 1 min
Drone buzzing Fenway Park a ‘wake-up call’ for Congress to act
The drone that buzzed Fenway Park is a “wake-up call” to Congress to regulate the unmanned aircraft before there’s a tragedy, two former...
- Apr 6, 2019
- 1 min
Bail reform’s killer mistake
Michael Cammarata and his girlfriend were charged Friday with the murder of Cammarata’s estranged wife Jeanine after the schoolteacher’s...
- Mar 9, 2019
- 3 min
Knife Crime In Great Britain
By Bill Bratton, as seen in the Daily Mail. There has been much discussion recently among British politicians and police officials...
- Feb 19, 2019
- 1 min
Community Policing, Rightly Understood
Over the last quarter of a century, the United States has seen historic drops in crime—most famously in New York. These gains, once...
- Feb 2, 2019
- 1 min
Some U.S. police departments dump body-camera programs amid high costs
When East Dundee, a tiny suburb of Chicago, ordered body cameras for its 17 police officers, Terry Mee, the police chief at the time,...
- Jan 30, 2019
- 1 min
Longtime Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger will retire in April
Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger will retire in April after 15 years running the 1,300-officer force during which he...
- Jan 29, 2019
- 1 min
Crime Is Down in Los Angeles Across Every Major Category, Latest Statistics Show
Crime is down in every category in Los Angeles and homicides are at their second lowest in more than 50 years, the city's mayor and...
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