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Jun 14, 20191 min read

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, 20196 min read

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...

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Jun 1, 20191 min read

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,...

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May 31, 20191 min read

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...

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May 29, 20191 min read

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...

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May 28, 20191 min read

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...

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May 19, 20190 min read

A Conversation with Joe Piscopo

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May 17, 20191 min read

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...

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May 16, 20191 min read

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...

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May 5, 20191 min read

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...

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Apr 20, 20191 min read

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...

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Apr 18, 20191 min read

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...

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Apr 13, 20191 min read

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...

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Apr 13, 20191 min read

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...

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Apr 6, 20191 min read

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...

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Mar 9, 20193 min read

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...

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Feb 19, 20191 min read

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...

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Feb 2, 20191 min read

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,...

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Jan 30, 20191 min read

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...

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Jan 29, 20191 min read

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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