Associate Professor @RutgersSCJ studying policing, city budgets, and housing. More active on BlueSky: https://xitter.cf/t.co/DIcBrJbIFE.
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When times are tight, do cities cut police or social service budgets more? In a 🚨new study🚨, I find revenue loss is associated with shallow, temporary cuts to policing and deep, enduring cuts to social services. The article, in Criminology, is free. doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12…
The NYPD intensified its low-level enforcement under Eric Adams. Has Mamdani reversed course? Yes, but only gradually. Details in a new Substack post. brendenbeck.substack.com/p/t…
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Automated speed cameras, which detect and fine speeding motorists, reduced total collisions by around 30% and injuries by around 16%, on average, within 900 feet of intersections in the first 7 months of deployment in New York City. In PNAS: ow.ly/hFaz50XHylc
ALT Traffic enforcement camera in New York City. Stock photo.
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Wait...
Speed cameras work?
"Cumulatively, over the seven months following [speed camera's] introduction, collisions declined by 30% and injuries by 16%."
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Do speed cameras work? Our new study in @PNASNews provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s automated enforcement program, finding large reductions in collisions (30%) & injuries (16%). From me, @BrendenBeck and @jbenmenachem. pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…
It’s true, I have joined the faculty at the @RutgersSCJ. I will dearly miss my CU Denver colleagues and students, but I’m excited to return to the NYC area and work alongside the amazing criminal justice scholars at Rutgers. If you’re in the area, get in touch!
School of Criminal Justice @Rutgers_Newark welcomes Dr. @BrendenBeck to its esteemed faculty this fall as an Associate Professor. #highered
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.@BUsociologydept is hiring two assistant professors! Sociology of sexualities and sociology of race & ethnicity. See position ads below. @ASAnews
With inflation and crime both declining, it's worth remembering the two are related and we don't really know why!
Are you a member of the American Sociological Association's Community and Urban Sociology Section (@ComUrbASA)? If so, sign up now to be a mentor or mentee at this year's conference! umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.c…
Nicole Krauss' new short story in the @NewYorker is a great elucidation of suburban crime. No kidnappers, but price fixers, tax evaders, overbillers, and hit-and-runners. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
Here on Tax Day, let's remember the ubiquity of tax evasion. The IRS estimates that 13% of owed taxes are never paid, totaling $171 billion in the typical year. For comparison, Americans lost $9.4 billion to property theft in 2019 according to FBI data.
If we assume that underreporting to the police means the actual property theft number is three times higher than $9.4b, tax evasion is still responsible for *six times* more lost money than all shoplifting, car theft, robbery, and burglary incidents combined.
You can decide whether tax evasion receives 6x more attention from the press and elected officials than property crime.
Sources:
crsreports.congress.gov/prod…
ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s…
Re the debate over whether police are "under-funded," we've been increasing our police spending more rapidly than our education spending, especially relative to the need for each.
Research into the spatial context of the criminal justice system has grown lately, but it faces challenges. In a new piece, @jt_simes, @john_majoreason, and I summarize the sub-field, critique its focus on large cities, and venture some recommendations.
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Thrilled to share @RussellSageFdn journal issue on Suburban Inequality, edited by me, @DumiLM + Stephen Matthews. It highlights dramatic shifts in suburbs, how to make sense of economic + ethnic-racial changes. @TuftsUniversity @SSNScholars @ASAnews rsfjournal.org/content/9/1 (1/n)
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Do you care about racial segregation, local politics, suburbanization, or spatial inequality?
Then you should also care about municipal incorporation!
(At least, this is what I argue in my new paper in the @RussellSageFdn journal). Link: rsfjournal.org/content/9/2/2…
Police in Ferguson, MO prioritized generating revenue. Did that play a role in the death of Michael Brown? In a study out today, I find that police in cities that relied on fine & fee revenue killed more people. The article is free to read. rsfjournal.org/content/9/2/1…
Municipal budgeting is important for all kinds of downstream outcomes. In this case, I found police violence varies by fiscal resource sourcing. Us researchers might make municipal budgeting a more central object of study.
The article is part of a great special issue on suburban inequality edited by @DumiLM, @nkwarikoo, and Stephen A. Matthews with great contributions from @KWyndhamDouds, @drlungamam, @scottwallard, @AnnOwens_, @vantrannyc, @kaseyzap, @ps_hepburn, and many others.