Effects of New York City’s Neighborhood Policing Policy

Leveraging neighborhood-scale change for policy and program reform in Buffalo, New York.

BACKGROUND The Healthy Communities Initiative (HCI) affects 8500 employees working in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and 8925 residents of adjacent neighborhoods, where 37% of people live below the poverty line, and a majority (68.7%) identify themselves as African-American. INTERVENTION The HCI partnership, which includes multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary organizations and neighborho...

A Self-Policing Policy Language

Formal policies allow the non-ambiguous definition of situations in which usage of certain entities are allowed, and enable the automatic evaluation whether a situation is compliant. This is useful for example in applications using data provided via standardized interfaces. The low technical barriers of integrating such data sources is in contrast to the manual evaluation of natural language po...

The International Implications of Quality-of-life Policing as Practiced in New York City.

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has made enforcement of laws against disorder and quality-of-life offenses a central part of their policing strategy. Concomitantly, New York City (NYC) experienced a renaissance in orderliness, cleanliness, tourism, real estate value, and crime reduction, although other problems such as poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, racial tensions and homelessne...

Policing and Social Control of Public Marijuana Use and Selling in New York City.

Living under surveillance: Gender, psychological distress, and stop-question-and-frisk policing in New York City.

A growing body of research highlights the collateral consequences of mass incarceration, including stop-and-frisk policing tactics. Living in a neighborhood with aggressive policing may affect one's mental health, especially for men who are the primary targets of police stops. We examine whether there is an association between psychological distress and neighborhood-level aggressive policing (i...