Come work with me! My department is hiring an assistant research professor to lead the newly formed CLEAR Institute. The job is a 1-1 teaching load with expectations for research and external funding development. HMU with any questions!
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/273...

Police disproportionately kill Native people on or near reservations, UW study finds Roughly 3 in 4 Indigenous people in the United States killed by law enforcement were on or near reservations, a new University of Washington study found.

A new study coauthored by ASA member Theresa Rocha Beardall @trochabeardall.bsky.social focuses on where police killings of Native people are taking place and finds that mortality risk is multiple times higher in and around reservations. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social

So excited to share that Diversityland: Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb is available for pre-order!

Use code UCPSAVE30 to save 30%. www.ucpress.edu/books/divers... @ucpress.bsky.social

This isn't the right time for anachronisms

Sources:
www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04...
ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the...)

It's tax day, so it's time for my annual reminder that tax evasion costs us 63 times more than property theft ($1 trillion vs $16 billion).

The red line shows homicides between 2018 and 2025. The blue line, the number of local government employees. They are mirror images. The blue line trends w/ARPA, a $350B investment in local government. The red line trends down as 1 million teachers, counselors, and clinicians enter the workforce.

how much money does the marine corps lose

when it's a lovely, sunny day, some part of my brain invariably goes ooh, maybe we'll have class outside

Great news!

Here’s another graph showing things were getting better at least a year before Lurie’s tenure started (which was Jan 2025). bsky.app/profile/jake...

Halfway through this article arguing that San Francisco's new "tough love" mayor improved disorder and drug overdoses in the city, the author reveals that the improvement happened under the previous mayor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

A Road Safety Blueprint for the Mamdani Administration Speed cameras should be the first step toward improved transportation infrastructure across New York City.

"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...

Conventional wisdom about the American electorate, be gone—even these St. Louis suburbanites are willing to pay taxes for their public services

A Road Safety Blueprint for the Mamdani Administration Speed cameras should be the first step toward improved transportation infrastructure across New York City.

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:

www.vitalcitynyc.org/nyc-speed-ca... @astagoff.bsky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social

A Road Safety Blueprint for the Mamdani Administration Speed cameras should be the first step toward improved transportation infrastructure across New York City.

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...

the keebeeper

The DC Metro

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi.

The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

With Less Immigration, Urban Growth Slowed in 2025 Plus, revisions to 2022-2024 local population estimates were unusually large.

With less immigration, urban counties grew more slowly than suburbs, smaller metros, and rural areas in 2025.

New Census data out this morning.

jedkolko.substack.com/p/with-less-...

First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.

As New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces $7 billion budget hole, free parking may be history New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing a $7 billion budget hole, and the free parking NYC residents have taken for granted may be a revenue opportunity.

I talked to CNBC.com last week about the large upsides to expanding NYC's metered parking. They garbled my quote a bit, but I don't think there's a reason to give car owners free storage in a city with robust public transit. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/...

Are you interested in making roads safer without more policing? Join me at the NYU Policing Project's "Right-Sizing Traffic Enforcement" conference. 2026trafficconvening.splashthat.com

Habermenos?

This picture makes Johnston look like Cole Escola

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

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A.I. Isn't People How many Reddit posts does it take to learn to read?

The @rusty.todayintabs.com essay about the New Yorker essay about AI is good: todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

How the City’s Mental Health System Failed Jabez Chakraborty In the weeks before their son was shot by NYPD officers, the Chakraborty family did everything they could to get him treatment. They were forsaken at every turn.

Such a sad story. If NYC hospitals and mental health services had the capacity, it would have avoided a police shooting.
thecity.nyc/2026/02/23/police-mental-health-system-failed-jabez-chakraborty

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

I imagine it was extremely disturbing