Links of interest for April 23rd, 2008 through May 9th, 2008:
- BBC NEWS | Health | The man who grew a finger
- Mr Spievak re-grew his finger tip using "pixie dust," an extracellular matrix made from pig bladders. - Selling the War with Iran - The Washington Note
- American lack of understanding of the true situation in Iraq and Iran guarantees failure. - Shattering “Broken Windows”: An Analysis of San Francisco’s Alternative Crime Policies
- Long derided by conservatives for its alternative crime policies, San Francisco registered reductions in crime that exceed or equal comparable cities and jurisdictions - including New York and its famous "broken windows" policy. - Meet The (White) Man Who Inspired Wright’s Controversial Sermon
- Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s now famous tirade about America’s foreign policy inciting the terrorist attacks of September 11 parallels in some ways comments from a career diplomat - In praise of Palestinian steadfastness | csmonitor.com
- "…it is a mistake to consider the past 60 years as simply a story of unmitigated disaster for the Palestinian people. There have also been significant successes and achievements ? and it is a story worth telling." - Reform-minded Turkish scholars prepare to reinterpret Islam
- A group of Turkish scholars is spearheading a reinterpretation of the literary foundations of Islam that some have compared to Christianity’s Protestant Reformation - Tomgram: 12 Reasons to Get Out of Iraq
- "[H]ere, in an attempt to unravel the situation in ever-unraveling Iraq are twelve answers to questions which should be asked far more often in this country"
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Write a Comment»Good questions!
I agree that no particular statistic is overwhelming, but the weight of evidence certainly seems to call some of the “received wisdom” about crime control into question. However, the lack of statistical analysis in the piece makes it impossible to really answer your challenge, since we have no idea Just how significant these results are.
I posted this because I think we need some new thinking about crime, since our current approaches are so obviously broken. This is just one piece in the puzzle.
Re: Broken Window. Am I reading the charts wrong, but SF’s data doesn’t appear to be so conclusively superior. Plus, are the other three California cities “broken windows theory” cities? Given how underpoliced (on a per capita basis) Los Angeles is, is LA a bwt city?