Greg Berman

Greg Berman is the co-editor of Vital City and the distinguished fellow of practice at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

Contributions

No Program Is a Panacea: The Fate of Focused Deterrence

Why are so many activists and academics ambivalent about an evidence-based approach to reducing violence?

Greg Berman

What is Vital City?

A new venture dedicated to advancing actionable ideas for enduring safety.

Elizabeth Glazer and Greg Berman

Our First Issue

This first issue of the Vital City policy journal is devoted to gun violence. It is one of the most pressing problems currently confronting New York and other cities, and has become ground zero in the war of ideas and ideologies about what makes us safe.

Elizabeth Glazer and Greg Berman

Mend It, Don't End It: Salvaging Broken Windows

Forty years after its initial publication, the broken windows theory is still generating fierce debate.

Greg Berman

Editors' Note: Issue 2

What is “disorder”? And what should we do about it?

Elizabeth Glazer and Greg Berman

There Are No Solutions: Making Sense of New York at the End of the 20th Century (and Now)

What Benjamin Holtzman’s ‘The Long Crisis’ gets wrong — and right — about New York’s revival.

Greg Berman

Hot-Spot Policing After Memphis: Six Questions for David Weisburd

The winner of the Stockholm Prize for Criminology talks about the enforcement tactic in the wake of the killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis.

Greg Berman

What We're Reading

A roundup of recent research on cities

Greg Berman

Editors' Note: Issue 3

What makes a city tick?

Elizabeth Glazer and Greg Berman

Willing To Be Lucky: Dante Ross and the Golden Age of Hip-Hop in New York

In a new memoir, a decorated record producer chronicles the turbulent early days of the rap industry

Greg Berman

Editors' Note

The most wonderful time of the year?

Greg Berman and Elizabeth Glazer

What We're Reading

Recent research on city life

Greg Berman

From Pessimism to Optimism and Back Again: A Half Century of Criminal Justice Reform

Three big ideas have defined criminal justice over the last 50 years.  What comes next?

Greg Berman

Vital City 1.5: Ideas to Action

What we’re about and where we’re headed

Elizabeth Glazer and Greg Berman

Editors' Note

What does it take to solve a shooting?

Elizabeth Glazer and Greg Berman

What We're Reading

Recent research. Quick takes.

Greg Berman

What We're Reading

We read the research so you don’t have to.

Greg Berman

Editors’ Note

For better and for worse, substance use is an important part of the daily rhythms of the city.

Greg Berman and Elizabeth Glazer

Could Our Jails Be a Civic Asset?

An editors' note

Elizabeth Glazer and Greg Berman

Editors’ Note

Can the link between research and practice be fixed?

Elizabeth Glazer and Greg Berman