#policy-analysis

#policy-analysis

As candidates for mayor debate public safety and police funding, a new report shows that adding more cops has not always translated to lower crime rates throughout the city's history.

"Evidence from Illinois shows that implementation of cashless bail did not result in increased crime rates, countering claims from critics who link it to rising crime."

It is awful and unacceptable that 10 people were murdered in the subway system in 2024. Convert that to the standard way of measuring mortality risk, deaths per 100,000 population, and the risk for someone who rode the subway 500 times in 2024 is 0.4 in 100,000. The risk of being murdered underground is ... orders of magnitude less than the risk of dying from a traffic accident elsewhere in the U.S.

The Senate Republicans' tax bill could slash $1.1 trillion from health provisions by 2034, leading to an estimated 11.8 million people losing their health insurance.

The instinct of policy makers was to favour punitive measures over financial support, revealing a preference for enforcement strategies over incentives during the pandemic.