With the availability of granular prison data for 2020, it has become clear that the population *most* at risk to suffer bad reactions to Covid--the elderly--was the one to *least* experience early release. In fact, in many states, the number of people over 65 in prison rose over 2020.
Category: Data
Local Government Employees and the Opportunity Cost of Policing
For all our talk about defunding the police (which didn't happen), we ignored how we did in fact significantly reduce local government employment. And an excellent recent article by John Roman suggests this played a big, but underappreciated, role in driving up homicides and shootings in 2020.
Reform Prosecutors: The Winners and the Losers
As far as I know, there is no single list of not only all the people who have been elected as reform prosecutor, but also of those who have run and lost. Here I provide my first effort at such a list, which currently runs to 128 current, former, and unsuccessful reformers.