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Investing in Summer Youth Employment Programs Creates Stronger, Safer Communities 

To reduce crime, enhance public safety, and improve outcomes for people involved with the criminal justice system, we need to follow the evidence. Across the country, we have seen how proactive strategies like summer youth employment programs (SYEPs) have been proven to counter this seasonal crime spike, offer at-risk youth a more constructive path forward, and reduce violence. Moreover, these programs have a lasting effect, helping to bring down crime and violence throughout the year.

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My chat with NPR: “Six Republican governors sending National Guard troops to D.C.”

Recently, I spoke with National Public Radio's (NPR) Meg Anderson about President Trump's and various state governors' move to deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C. Our conversation was long and her segment featured a brief comment about how we may see crime decrease in the short-term but likely not over the long-term. How to best address violent crime is a serious issue that needs serious interventions backed by rigorous evidence. There are already several that we know work.

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Police accountability is a bipartisan issue. Don’t let it become a prop in our political theater 

In May, I co-authored a piece for The Hill with my friend, Jillian Snider - the policy director of R Street's Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties team and a retired NYPD officer. Our piece was in response the political theater underway in Congress to usurp Washington D.C.'s locally-driven police reform bill. Fortunately, while the resolution passed, President Biden vetoed it - upholding D.C. residents ability to seek the type of policing they want - which, as we discuss in this piece included a number of commonsense police reform measures that have been passed in a number of states, including so-called purple and red states.