Walter Shapiro

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

We spent decades trying to decipher why crime in NYC plunged so dramatically during the 1990s. That's why facile explanations of the current uptick -- in the middle of a pandemic -- are likely to be misleading or flat-out wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

An FYI for anyone writing on the subject in the coming weeks/months: figuring out why crime broadly goes up or down… https://t.co/HQMBCvPVD0

Posted July 6, 2020 Hibernated

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

“White House officials hope that Americans will grow numb to the effects of nuclear war.” Imagine if the Kennedy administration offered this hopeful bit of spin during the Cuban Missile Crisis. — PolitiTweet.org

‘Numb’ https://t.co/byliJ6ZQVH

Posted July 6, 2020 Hibernated

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

But how do you get headlines with carefully reasoned analyses of the crime data? It's so much more satisfying to mouth off with glib explanations. Also, the frustrations of being limited by the pandemic may play a role in the crime spike. — PolitiTweet.org

The. craziest part of all: we have a top public research institution (@JohnJayCollege) with an army of paid researc… https://t.co/ZCcYPv6KPX

Posted July 6, 2020 Hibernated