Browsing: At the Crossroads

During a nearly 30-year career in law enforcement Tracie Keesee has grappled with the “burden” of being both Black and female in uniform. But as she tells Greg Berman in the latest installment of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation’s Crossroads series, it has also persuaded her to fight for meaningful reforms.

Explanations for the rise in violent crime tend to avoid the role police play in crime prevention, argues policing expert Peter Moskos. In the latest installment of the “At the Crossroads” series of interviews sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Moskos tells Greg Berman that cops need to be proactive in addressing clear threats like gun offenders.

The George Floyd killing forced white Americans to confront awkward truths about racial disparities in the justice system, and the police role in enforcing those disparities. In the latest installment of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation’s “At the Crossroads” series of interviews, criminologist and former prosecutor Kami Chavis argues the entire police “ecosystem” needs reform―starting at the local level.

The small number of individuals involved in shootings within any given community are connected by a web of social relationships in which violence follows the same predictable pathways as any pathogen, suggests Chicago criminologist Andrew Papachristos. In the latest installment of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation “Crossroads” interviews, he explains how that research finding can inform efforts to reduce gun violence.

The defund-the-police movement has usefully focused attention on the need for alternative approaches to public safety, but there’s no alternative to smart, evidence-based law enforcement strategies, criminologist David Weisburd tells Greg Berman in the latest installment of the “At The Crossroads Series” sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

Shani Buggs transitioned from a career in pubic health to a focus on reducing and preventing firearm violence. The logical connection between the two should underline how we address a problem with deep roots in the traumas suffered by historically under-resourced communities, she tells Greg Berman in the latest installment of “At the Crossroads,” a series of conversations sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.