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New from PPI | June 19, 2009
Can't-Miss Offer For Policy Revolutionaries: Hang Out With PPI, Get Featured In The New Yorker
By Mark Ribbing
This time, the esteemed weekly profiles crime prophet David Kennedy, who has come up with a strikingly effective gang-violence policy that transcends old assumptions.
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New from PPI | May 6, 2009
The Evolving Nature of Organized Crime
By Mark Ribbing
Mobsters go global, embrace technology, exploit financial scams. How 21st century can you get?
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Policy Report | July 23, 2008
Stop Revolving-Door Justice
By Jason Newman
Faced with overcrowded prisons and the highest incarceration rate in U.S. history, officials are struggling to cope with the rising number of prisoners released back into society -- too often to commit new crimes. More and more Americans are being caught in the cycle of this 'revolving-door justice.' In this paper, Jason Newman, the DLC's state and local policy director, tackles this problem at its source and promotes a systemic change in the correctional system.
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Testimony | May 20, 2003
Can the Use of Factual Data Analysis Strengthen National Security?
By John D. Cohen
Testimony before the House Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
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Policy Report | May 23, 2002
Prison Labor: It's More than Breaking Rocks
By Robert D. Atkinson
There is a lot that can and should be done to ensure that workers and businesses benefit in the New Economy. Opposing prison labor is not one of them. In fact, limiting prison labor would lower economic growth, while reducing the effectiveness of prisons to move prisoners to productive and law-abiding lives when they are released.
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Briefing | January 18, 2002
The State and Local Role in Domestic Defense
By John D. Cohen and John A. Hurson
The best preparation for future acts of terror can be found in the same techniques and technologies that can be used to better protect our neighborhoods from drug traffickers, robbers, and burglars, and to keep our communities healthier.
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Blueprint Magazine | February 7, 2001
Crime Story: The Digital Age
By John D. Cohen
Harnessing new technologies to community policing.
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Blueprint Magazine | September 1, 2000
Catching Criminals in the DNA Web
By Rutt Bridges
We need to vastly expand the genetic database of violent
offenders.
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Blueprint Magazine | September 1, 2000
Fighting Crime and Corruption in New Orleans
By Peter Ross Range
Once known as Murder City, U.S.A., New Orleans has
adopted modern police techniques to slash crime and boost its
image.
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Blueprint Magazine | September 1, 2000
Keeping Crime on the Run
By John J. DiIulio Jr.
We need a new set of public-private initiatives to deal with a
record juvenile population and the unintended consequences
of today's anti-crime policies.
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The New Democrat | August 1, 2000
Repairing the Social Fabric
By David Osborne and Peter Plastrik
An excerpt from "The Reinventor's Fieldbook: Tools for Transforming Your Government."
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Backgrounder | March 1, 2000
Smart Guns
By John D. Cohen
If guns were manufactured so that only their legal owners could fire them, much of the
death and destruction caused by illegal gun use could be prevented. The technology exists to do just that.
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Policy Report | February 15, 2000
Eliminating Racial Profiling
By John D. Cohen, Janet Lennon, and Robert Wasserman
In this paper, we propose replacing
racial profiling with new tools that will help the police to make better judgments, deploy
their resources more strategically, and most important of all, help them enlist citizens in crime-riddled
neighborhoods in their own self-defense.
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