Criminal Justice pracademic | Evidence-Based Policing, Procedural Justice & Police Legitimacy, Family Violence.
All stakeholders — elected officials, police executives and the public — need to acknowledge the lessons learned from another scathing report exposing the root of distrust between minority communities and the police: zero tolerance policing.
A vow to not stop protesting until a citizen review board with subpoena powers is formed has become the norm. Just as police departments need to acknowledge activist persistence, activists need to understand…
Last week I had the opportunity to hear from Jason Riley, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. I was fairly familiar with Riley going into his guest lecture at the University…
Community policing was a valiant effort to minimize what has been referred to as the democratic policing dilemma: to have an effective means of preventing and responding to crime without sacrificing police legitimacy (Sherman, 2011)…
In her latest Wall Street Journal Op-Ed titled “Trying to Hide the Rise of Violent Crime,” Heather Mac Donald revisits her controversial “Ferguson effect” proposition by bringing the year-end crime data into perspective. Here’s my response: