Quality Policing

When I went to Baltimore in 1999 and became a cop, I thought my first book was going to be about Baltimore’s Great Crime Drop.

The percentage of shooting victims in NYC who are Black or Hispanic is 96%, and it has varied very little—even as total numbers have changed.

By a Minneapolis Police Officer and Peter Moskos What is happening in Minneapolis is not simply federal overreach combined with public backlash, but a system that pairs aggressive immigration enforcement with poor leadership, inviting street-level confron…

Now with ICE dominating the law enforcement news, sometimes I like to revisit issues of yesteryear.

On spreaker for audio https://www.spreaker.com/episode/qpp-64-leon-taylor-and-ice–69584686 And youtube: https://youtu.be/dVs2kBlAXu8

Chicago and Baltimore have seen a massive reduction in murders.

Over on twitter there’s a discussion that we can’t compare 1960’s murder rates with 2025 because people were much more likely to die back then, because of lack of shock trauma and other (what we now consider) basic medical care.

My “lost” (really forgotten) 2017 conversation with Baltimore Police Legend and Jack Maple protégé Tony Barksdale.

A discussion of the results of New York’s Bail Reform with René Ropac & Stephen Koppel of the Data Collaboration for Justice.

A while back I was (and still am) a bit shocked at the massive differences between case outcomes in New York City and the rest of New York State.