The Importance of Understanding the Mechanisms of Things Get Better

Mike tells Sarah about the most common forms of violence in America and how they differ (twist!) from what gets shown on TV. Digressions include Perry Mason, “It’s A Wonderful Life” and fruit-toting strategies. Mike appears not to understand the meaning of the term “order of magnitude.”

This episode contains descriptions of police violence; the last 15 minutes are just a huge bummer generally.

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Links!  

• Monica Bell's "Anti-Segregation Policing"
• Daanika Gordon's "The Police as Place-Consolidators: The Organizational Amplification of Urban Inequality”
• "Homicide Investigations in Context: Exploring Explanations for the Divergent Impacts of Victim Race, Gender, Elderly Victims, and Firearms on Homicide Clearances"
• "Homicide Arrest Clearances: A Review of the Literature"
• "Assessing and Responding to the Recent Homicide Rise in the United States"
• "Can Homicide Detectives Improve Homicide Clearance Rates?"
• "Effective Police Homicide Investigations: Evidence from Seven Cities with High Clearance Rates"
• "Wrongful Convictions, Policing, and the 'Wars on Crime and Drugs'"
• "Did De-Policing Cause the Increase in Homicide Rates?"
• The DOJ's Antelope Valley Investigation
• "Explaining the Recent Decline in Domestic Violence"
• "Gender Differences in Patterns and Trends in U.S. Homicide, 1976–2015"
• "Police Responses to Violent Crime: Reconsidering the Mobilization of Law"
• "What Caused the Crime Decline?"

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