Issue 2
How We Live Together
What is “disorder”? And what should we do about it?
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The reforms that failed to save Tyre Nichols’ life
Errol Louis
Four changes that were supposed to make a difference — but didn’t do nearly enough to change police training and culture.
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Can the city’s jails be fixed? Another year, scant progress
Elizabeth Glazer
First time tragedy, second time, farce. In 2022, the eighth year of federal oversight, the conditions inside New York City’s jails were both tragedy and farce. Fixing them will take will, exercised without fear or favor.
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There Are No Solutions: Making Sense of New York at the End of the 20th Century (and Now)
Greg Berman
What Benjamin Holtzman’s ‘The Long Crisis’ gets wrong — and right — about New York’s revival.
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The Victim Card
Mark Obbie
A new playbook to counter tough-on-crime backlash.
Editors' Note
Elizabeth Glazer and Greg Berman
What is “disorder”? And what should we do about it?
The Strange History and Impact of Broken Windows
Tracey Meares
A leading scholar rethinks her relationship to broken windows.
The Unwritten Rules
Errol Louis
Addressing disorder, even while driving down serious crime, is the key to livable neighborhoods.
“The Message”: Order Maintenance and Its Discontents
Michael Javen Fortner
What can survey data tell us about how racial minorities think about crime, disorder and the police?
The Journal
&More
Gun Violence in New York City: The Data
What to Do About Closing Rikers
In our first special report, public safety veterans Elizabeth Glazer and Michael Jacobson provide a detailed, data-grounded roadmap to close Rikers Island that would simultaneously:
Do Anti-Gun Police Teams Work?
Mayor Eric Adams has reassigned hundreds of officers to “Neighborhood Safety Teams” that he says will go after guns and the people who use them.
Brief history and impact of a federal “Transitional Administrator” over juvenile detention in Cook County, IL
Many of the circumstances that led to receivership at the Cook County, IL Juvenile Temporary Detention Center mirror those present in NYC jails.