Public Safety

Map: Public Safety - Community-Level Analytics Geographic Area: City of Los Angeles, California Year Published: 2022 Goal: To provide clear and accurate information about crimes in LA neighborhoods. Datasets: LAPD crime data coupled with LA County...

August 24, 2022 Public Health In this episode Professor Stephen Goldsmith, Ernani Choma (postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard), and Matt Raifman (Ph.D. candidate at Boston University) discuss their new report, which revealed that the racial disparities...

July 27, 2022 Public Safety In this episode Professor Stephen Goldsmith and Hilary Rau, Vice President of Policy and Community Engagement at the Center for Policing Equity, discuss what public safety means, how and why it's being redefined, and the role...

We need to start redefining 911. We need to redefine public safety. We don’t need to figure out how to ‘make it work,’ instead we need to redefine it and ask, ‘how do we do it differently?’ Because it’s time. Bridgette Dean, Director of the Sacramento...

June 10, 2022 Civic Engagement This article originally appeared in Government Technology. Advocates for police reform want their input, concerns and suggestions for change to be heard by local police; city law enforcement wants to understand community...

April 25, 2022 Infrastructure This article originally appeared in Government Technology. Traditionally, safeguarding water resources concerned groundwater testing, lead pipe replacement, combined sewer overflows and watershed cleanups. In 2022 though, it...

March 18, 2022 Public Safety The policing and law enforcement sector is in radical need of transformation. In many American cities, the law enforcement hiring process is badly broken – too often reflecting the technology and cultural mores of the mid...

September 15, 2021 Public Safety In this episode, Professor Steve Goldsmith interviews Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson. They discuss the role of the mayor in maintaining public safety, balancing community values, and prioritizing research-based ideas over...

In February 2021, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that no officers would be charged in the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man handcuffed, hooded, and pinned to the ground while experiencing a severe mental health crisis in March 2020...