Ted Alcorn
Ted Alcorn writes about health and justice for local and national publications, and teaches courses about gun violence prevention at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and NYU's Wagner School of Public Service. He was the founding research director of Everytown for Gun Safety, and has contributed to research and internal communications for a variety of organizations including the Police Executive Research Forum.
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