A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

😭😭😭 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Trump: I’m very proud of the job he’s done. What he’s done is incredible in terms of human rights.

A review of experimental evaluations of victim counselling as a way to prevent domestic violence repeat victimisation found that it either didn’t reduce subsequent victimisation or any effect only lasted for a short while.

"Kriminalvården säger nej till regeringens förslag att sänka straffbarhetsåldern så att 13-åringar som begått grova brott sätts i fängelse. Kriminalvården skriver också att den inte är rustad att ta emot 13- och 14-åringar." www.dn.se/sverige/c/

I’m stealing this for the next time the data don’t come out the way I expected. “While we predicted a negative relationship but got a positive one, it could still be negative once we account for ups and downs and seasonals and whatnot.” It’s a causal Get Out of Jail Free card.

How many times can a myth be busted and someone receive a prize for it? The US-immigrant-crime myth was busted 130 years ago www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

ICYMI I wrote about Memphis -- a city where shooting have dropped after a large Federal deployment but I have questions about the validity of data being reported about other crimes. jasher.substack.com/p/walking-in...

The Stockholm prize in criminology to Charis Kubrin & Mark Lipsey for busting myths in criminology. Kubrin for showing immigrants (in the US) commits less crime and Lipsey for showing rehabilitation in prison can work. criminologysymposium.com/the-prize.html

Check out our new paper on gun carrying over the life course!

This is a slide I use quite a lot when doing POP training for police. Even when an agency or individual wants to follow SARA properly, there are so many institutional pressures on them to skip steps.

A new report from the Swedish police authority is highly critical to its own ability to perform analysis for crime prevention. The police intelligence is not providing analysis for local police to base crime prevention on, nor for assessment of effects. (Link in Swedish) polisen.se/siteassets/d...

I haven’t read the full piece, but the argument in the quote seems to be of the form “some good were produced without this” (leaving unsaid “and quite a lot of bad results, too”). But the argument for pre-registration isn’t that it leads to good results, it’s that it makes results more trustworthy.

That they have to know enough to be able to fact check the output. If they can't, there's a very realistic chance the output will make them look like a fool.

🚨 Help, please! Next week I’m running a session for Year 1 students on using AI at uni. What specific points would you make if you were running it? (For anyone about to reply “I’d tell them not to use AI”,  please know I don’t think that’s a useful message for them.)

New Research I came across this week #EconSky 1: Teaching negotiation skills to 8th graders in Zambia leads to better outcomes 10y later, with high returns! Paper: www.nber.org/system/files... 1/3

Verkligen jättebra att p1 har en programserie om Brott och plats. Mycket är också intressant i programmen - men, vetenskapligheten är tyvärr inte hundra. Kanske är för att man vill ha en mer folklig ton med mkt praktiker, men sticker lite i ögonen för mig. www.sverigesradio.se/brott-och-pl...

Very happy that we now start a research education program for police officers in collaboration with the city of Malmö police department. Up to five officers will work 50% as normal, but the other 50% training to become researchers in our PhD program. (link in Swedish) mau.se/nyheter/fors...

Yup, big increase. No idea what's going on because also a smaller increase in knife violent crimes. Hard to tell if they're playing games with categorization or the means of crime have changed.

Now with 7 weeks of data on each side National Guard deployment in DC. Reported violent gun crime in DC is down 44%. Homicides during this period went down 22 to 11. (Last year during the same two time periods before and after August 11, there were 28 and 24 homicides and many more gun crimes.)

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

@jenniferdoleac.bsky.social in case @arnoldventures.bsky.social decides it wants to resurrect / redo Crime Solutions. (I think there was room for improvement but it's a net public good IMO to have the summaries out there.)

Given that NIJ stopped funding additional development of Crime Solutions, I scraped the website and archived the reviews in a permanent location using ardrive. andrewpwheeler.com/2025/09/26/i...

Had the pleasure to present some of our research on the geography of fear at the Gothenburg book fair today. It is a very large and fun event to visit.

Might have missed something but I have not seen any discussions about this in Sweden.

Trump to the UN: "I have to say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor -- terrible terrible mayor -- and it's been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia Law ... both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe."

Trump: "I'm really good at predicting things. During the campaign they had a hat -- a best-selling hat -- 'Trump was right about everything.' And I don't say that in a braggadocios way, but it's true. I've been right about everything."

statistic of the day

Yep, homicide also down massively since early 2000s. Flip side is that fraud is now the bulk of all UK crime (~40%) but hardly given time of day. Cutting fraud is an economic growth strategy... www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/threats-2025...

Imagine how much we could bring down crime if we put the same resources into policing. I mean, the National Guard standing around brought about a 35% reduction in violent gun crime. We could do much more with legal and constitutional policing. www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/a-be...

Barry Latzer and I have an opinion piece in the National Review today. Why troops are NOT the right way to fight crime in cities. Policing, turns out, is best done with... police. www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/a-be...

Cool as hell pets not allowed.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Snubblade över denna tabell med expected points - kan detta verkligen stämma? Sjuk diff för Mjällby isf (+28), har det rapporterats/diskuterats mycket? footystats.org/sweden/allsv...

🚨 It's been a long time in the making, but I'm happy it's finally out! Standing on the shoulders of giants, in this preprint we propose an avenue for theoretical development in the field of environmental (cyber)criminology with practical applications for crime analysis. bsky.app/profile/soca...

No FBI director has ever behaved like this.

Well you're lucky... apparently reading a grant proposal does not meaningfully affect how it's ranked.

Interesting lecture by @tomkirchmaier.bsky.social on anti-money laundering. Tom is critical of the current system, and I think this resonates with the situation in Sweden as well. 56 136 suspicious transactions in 2023 resulted in 115 reported crimes. www.sns.se/artiklar/on-...

New short piece on the European Network for Open Criminology site with Torbjørn Skardhamar: Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science esc-enoc.github.io/how-to/cost-...

This must be what it felt like to live during the McCarthy period, yeah, in which conservatives wielded explicitly naked double standards to target their foes while the flagrant hypocrisy was generally swept under the rug by those institutions that could call it out?

NEW: Say most elected officials in their country are honest Sweden 36% Indonesia 31% Netherlands 30% Canada 27% Germany 26% India 24% France 22% UK 21% US 7% www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

Begging journalists not to report on crime trends like this. DC crime was already falling relative to 2024 prior to the federal intervention, so it comes as no surprise that it was also down during this stretch.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Bra klargörande av SVT om Orbans uttalande som hävdade att 280 minderåriga flickor åtalats för mord förra året. Korrekt är alltså 280 åtalats för involvering i våldsbrott förra året, varav 277 för misshandel. Raderar mina andra tweets på temat. www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...

Over 280 underage girls arrested for murder? Uh, no. The last 3 years, 2022-2024, there were a TOTAL of 329 murders in Sweden. So, Orban is saying almost all of them had underage girls as suspects or killers? Bullshit. Overwhelming majority of murders committed by males.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson slammed Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán for spreading “outrageous lies” after Orbán said Sweden is on the brink of collapse because of rampant organized crime.

Help: I remember seeing a recent-ish paper (economics?) on cross-disciplinary citations in social science. Anyone here can confirm I'm not hallucinating?

The Bluesky-ization of the American left

An assassin writes Bella Ciao in the same breath as a Notices Your Bulge meme on his bullets. One of the government responses is a practicing Hindu asserting that the fundamentalist Christian victim will join him in a Norse pagan afterlife. Welcome to the epistemic collapse.