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BLUE POWER: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves is out TODAY from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social! Pick it up from your favorite infoshop, like @redemmas.org, where I'll be speaking about it tonight at 7pm.
Our recent study in PNAS found that NYC's speed cameras meaningfully reduced collisions and injuries citywide. For @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social, we wrote up some more ideas on how Mayor Mamdani can keep roads safe:
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What can Mamdani do to reduce pedestrian deaths and make NYC's roads safer? I wrote about some answers with @jbenmenachem.com and @astagoff.bsky.social in Vital City: www.vitalcitynyc.org/nyc-speed-ca...
In @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social today with some ideas for a comprehensive approach to traffic and road safety for the Mamdani administration.
"Speed cameras should be the first step toward improved transportation infrastructure across New York City."
What do you think?
www.vitalcitynyc.org/nyc-speed-ca...
Second Carceral Political Economy conference happening Mar 27 & 28 @ The New School. Free to attend! *Register at the link.* And I’ll be moderating a great panel on labor/the carceral state on 3/28, in the morning.
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Really looking forward to presenting tomorrow as a part of the session "Police Unions, Labor Politics, and the Penal State," with Stuart Schrader, Imani Radney, and Aaron Bekemeyer, historians who are doing cutting edge research on the rise of police unions! @inquest.bsky.social
Full schedule for our second Carceral Political Economy conference has just been released! NYC March 27 + 28th at the New School, with support from @inquest.bsky.social! Links to the program and registration below 1/3
Not to reopen speed camera discourse again, but here's yet another study finding that these cameras create significant safety benefits. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
(Okay yes, I *am* reopening this discourse, because I will fight anyone in defense of automated traffic enforcement.)
But they do. There's data showing they do. This by someone who I think is less carceral than me and I'm betting does not own shares of Flock.
What you suggest likely works better. But they also take more time, face tougher political hurdles, so there are transition paths to think about too.
Traffic enforcement camera in New York City. Stock photo.
Automated speed cameras, which detect and fine speeding motorists, reduced total collisions by around 30% and injuries by around 16%, on average, within 900 feet of intersections in the first 7 months of deployment in New York City. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/CHq550XHyla
Nice piece! Seems very much in line with Laura Field's new book and this conversation.
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We've been banging this drum for years, and the data confirms it: Speed cameras work. buff.ly/RJdCV0u
...the plateau in violations we observe is in part driven by super speeders who are undeterred by racking up violations.
This is a great point that I hope future research building on our study will investigate -- either through mediation analyses of driver characteristics or through studies of interventions that are targeted at super speeders specifically. Speculatively, I wonder whether...
Important new paper on the efficacy of NYC's speed-camera program, the largest in the country
After NYC installed 2,000 speed cameras, crashes fell 30% and injuries 16%.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Automated speed enforcement works extremely well.
FWIW TA found that the program enjoys majority support in NYC, which rose over time. Other polling has show that support increases when people are prompted with safety messaging.
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Do those pesky speed cameras work? New research from me, @astagoff.bsky.social, and @jbenmenachem.com finds they reduce collisions and injuries. Read thread or article for more. DM me for article if you can't scale the paywall.
Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪