Ted Alcorn
Ted Alcorn is a writer who covers health and justice for local and national publications and teaches courses about gun violence prevention at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.
Contributions
The Public Square
A review of recent political, judicial and intellectual debates related to gun violence.
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.
The Public Square
Debates about disorder and crime are heating up, with major implications for urban policy.
The Public Square: Politics, Safety and Common Space
A continuing push and pull over how to manage spaces that all New Yorkers use
The Public Square
The ongoing struggle over whom to shelter, how to protect the public and what it all costs
The Public Square
A review of recent political, judicial and intellectual debates related to gun violence
The Public Square
The state of the policy conversation on substances and their abuse
The Public Square
The debates roiling New York this spring