Vital City policy recommendations to fix an urgent set of problems
In the first of a series of policy papers, Vital City is releasing recommendations on how best to reduce violent crime and disorder in New York City's subways. Built on a detailed data analysis and conversations with academics and practitioners, those recommendations follow in the document below.
The research and analysis on which many of these recommendations are based follows here. It was produced by Aaron Chalfin, associate professor of criminology at the University of Pennsylvania; Paul Reeping, director of research at Vital City; and John Hall, a retired police professional and a National Institute of Justice Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science scholar.