"Rates of imprisonment have grown dramatically in the last 40 years." What a fabulously hilarious progressive spin on their own data/chart which shows NY incarceration rates in massive decline over the past 30 years! www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/NY....

For those who insist poverty is the driving force behind crime and violence, please answer me this: From 1990 to 2000, NYC saw a 20.5% increase in people living in poverty (a 10% increase in rate). 283,994 more people! How did murders simultaneously drop by two-thirds in 1990s NYC?

A slogan has ONE FUCKING JOB. Epic fail. Also Abolish Prisons. Goddam pratfall. Oh, and every time someone arrives on a thread to explain to me that it doesn't mean defund the entire agency, or abolish all incarceration, two others chime in to say yes, it does mean that. So more failure.

ACAB and Defund The Police -- the two most destructive messaging efforts from sloganeers who don't actually want to fix a fucking thing and will, at every opportunity, alienate the entire electorate from actual police reform for the sheer pleasure of their own self-regarding purities. Eat a dick.

On "bail reform." Does it "work"?

Your occasional reminder that in NYC the vast majority of criminal cases are not prosecuted. In the Bronx just 22% of felony and 12% of misdemeanor arrests result in a conviction. (Outside NYC, in the rest of the state, the figures are 67% and 52%, respectively.) qualitypolicing.com/same-city-di...

Yes, your honor, we received and sold stolen goods, but if there was no market for such we wouldn't have done so. Our customers are to blame. We live in a golden age of shamelessness and grift.

weird how vance keeps saying this!

I discuss NY Bail Reform with the authors of 5 reports on bail reform. If you care about bail reform (or think it works perfectly or it's all bad) it behooves you to listen to this Quality Policing Podcast episode. It's a deep hour-long dive. qualitypolicing.com/qpp-62-bail-...

“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

[Excuse me while I hit my head against a wall.]

I guess you can't sell the parking meters twice

I legit can’t figure out the play on these FAA flight cancellations. Who’s the White House trying to pressure. And who do they think people are gonna get mad at when Thanksgiving goes down the drain?

So sad. Tony was a great guy. And his leadership saved so many lives. Only 53. www.thebanner.com/obituaries/a...

The non-stop Maddrey, Kaz, Shell scandals plus the Adams/Banks strategy of trying to suppress crime by blanketing the city in OT shifts really has done a number on PD morale — hellgatenyc.com/three-nypd-c...

China bought 30 million metric tons of soybeans from the US last year. This year under Trump it will be 12 million.

Absurdest protest is so much better (ie: more effective in actually helping your cause) than passionate yelling or breaking-shit or blocking-traffic protest.

The L flag flying above Wrigley tonight

"Man, 64, Is Fatally Beaten in a Subway Station After Chance Encounter" The murderer “still had anger issues,” said a rehabilitation counselor. And a long criminal history. And 4 arrests since June 21. He's obviously dangerous and not well, so… we release him till he murders?

This is the book I've been waiting for: "Chasing Change in Camden." amazon.com/Chasing-Chan... Also, I follow John. He follows me. And yet somehow the algorithm didn't let me know about this book until today? I hope @shjarback-ccj.bsky.social knows about about _my_ book.

Serious (or at least sincere) question: In terms of two factor authentication, why is my phone considered more secure than my home computer?

Washington state had this problem with their LEOFF system (Law Enforcement Officers & Fire Fighters retirement plan). Lots of guys going out on lifetime disability for a minor injury. We totally overhauled the system in 1977 & created LEOFF2. Problem mostly solved.

It is scandalous that every big NYPD chief happens to be "disabled" when they retire. "Tax free 3/4 of his salery life time benefits... because of an ankle injury he received on Randall's Island while on duty last year." Bullshit. This is corruption. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/06/t...

I've taken enough moon pictures to know they never really work, but the moon was rising over Central Park and it was really beautiful, you'll just have to trust me.

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement? The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy. At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

Again and again I’m simply blown away at the idea of someone brain damaged enough to watch him do this and think “hell yeah”

From a NYC park bathroom today. Seems like a very fair request.

Working on your PhD? Consider applying for a Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy $10,000 no-strings-attached research grant. We award 20(!) of them. December 1 deadline. (FWIW, I'd love to see more qualitative and criminal-justice related applications!) www.horowitz-foundation.org/faq

Win elections. Not words. Deeds.

Much better than the somewhat halfheartedly written, choppy recent NYT piece. And I really wish the NYT would stop with this nonsense of lifting freelancers' ideas.

Yet another in a string of recent national security stories that you wouldn’t have read if the @washingtonpost.com didn’t break them www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Why _does_ the left so casually celebrate cop killers? How does this not normalize political violence? I mean the BLA cop killers were _overtly_ politically violent. They killed cops. That should be more defining that "acupuncturist." A deep dive by Michael Moynihan. www.youtube.com/live/4_VFzl2...

I was reminded by a student today that when one witnesses two shootings in 2 weeks where one lives, "crime is down" is of little solace.

Even Agnew was 80% lies, tops.

Interesting article. "How 106 People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting — Before It Happened:" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/n...

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

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.)

Vote in 2026 to finally put a check on Trump and the GOP. Our nation’s future depends on it.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

It's been a while since I've asked you to buy my book: "Back from the Brink" by Peter Moskos. A gripping story of NYC's 1990s crime drop. Loved and blurbed by such famous people as David Simon, John McWhorter, Bill Bratton, and at least a few others. Please consider buying it.

If you don't want to glorify cop killers, don't glorify Assata Shakur in her death. Or do. It's your choice.

[Mamdani voter:] The DSA party isn't radical. He's a "democratic socialist." It's no different from Sweden or other mainstream western European style "socialist" parties and systems. [DSA press release:] LONG LIVE THE GLORIOUS CUBAN REVOLUTION! SOLIDARITY WITH OUR BLACK PANTHER COP-KILLING COMRAD!

[Leftist:] I just don't understand how people can think the left supports violence, glorifies cop killers, and seeks a Marxist revolution. [Chicago Teachers Union:] Hold my beer.

Either Dr. Ian Roberts is a master con artist or ICE is lying. He cannot have arrived in the US in 1999 and graduated from Coppin State in 1998. This is not an Orwell novel. Both of these things cannot be true.

Love that Baltimore has a series in which academics present their research subjects to the general public at bars.

It's tough to refute the lies from ideologues. Police abolitionists have big platforms and insist "the sky is green." Some people believe them. It demoralizes me to note that the sky is blue (and sometimes gray). But if not me, who? Mike Pesca picks up the slack. www.thefp.com/p/an-anti-co...

That escalated quickly.

So is the MAGA-right entering a period of denial about the Trump's cognition the same we on the left (and be "we" I mean I) were in denial about Biden's cognitive decline? www.the-independent.com/bulletin/new...

A guy wanted for murder is chased by cops, shoots at cops, get shot by cops. All on body cam. Why does it take four months to conclude "subject officers did not commit a crime." What new information was gathered in months two and three?

Nice to see qualified journalists report on the field they know. NYT political reporters today are as unqualified to report on heath news as health reporters were to report on policing news in 2020.