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Can data uncover the real story of crime and justice in America?
Jeff Asher—nationally recognized crime data analyst, co-founder of AH Datalytics, co-creator of the Real Time Crime Index, and author of the Jeff-alytics Substack—sits down with policymakers, academics, journalists, and everyday people to reveal what the numbers actually show. Each episode challenges the myths we believe, exposes the gap between headlines and reality, and asks: what happens when we finally see crime clearly?
New episodes drop every other week! Visit ahdatalytics.com to learn more.
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Dan Semenza is a criminologist and director of research at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers University’s School of Public Health — a position that puts him deliberately at the intersection of two fields (sociology and public health) that don’t always talk to each other. That instinct has taken his research in directions most people wouldn’t think to look, including a recent study on whether GLP-1 medications might reduce violent behavior, a paper that went unexpectedly v...
Gun violence is not a one-size-fits-all concern. It can be a different issue depending on where you live and whether it is an urban or rural community. And that makes the problem genuinely hard to address at scale. Austin Davis has been working on this since he was 16 years old, when gun violence happened on his block in McKeesport and he walked into a city council meeting looking for answers. That experience set the course for everything that followed. He's now the (newly re-elected) Lieuten...
It takes a certain kind of leader to see a city deemed the country's "murder capital" and actually want to take on that problem. Chief Ann Kirkpatrick has spent 44 years working in some of the most challenging departments in the country. She's led five police departments, worked in cities from Memphis to Chicago to Oakland, and built a reputation as someone brought in when an agency needs to change direction. Three years ago, she came to New Orleans, my hometown, and took on the almost ...
One of the hardest questions facing any mayor – and a question that most mayor’s struggle to answer fully – is how you actually know if what you’re doing is working. Gloria Gong co-founded the Government Performance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School twelve years ago to help cities bridge the gap between policy and implementation. Her work sits at the intersection of data, delivery, and the very pragmatic question of why good ideas so often fail to translate into real-world results.
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Most of what we think we know about gun violence comes from policing data. Dr. Shani Buggs thinks that’s part of the problem. An associate professor at UC Davis’s Violence Prevention Research Program, Dr Buggs came to this work through public health — studying gun violence the way epidemiologists study disease, tracing risk factors, mapping patterns, and asking what conditions make communities more or less vulnerable. She’s spent the last fifteen years trying to build the evidence base for wh...
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