ISIS is losing the propaganda war
Too many dubious claims mean we no longer take them seriously.
James Densley
James Densley is an assistant professor in the School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice at Metropolitan State University. He is the author of “How Gangs Work: An Ethnography of Youth Violence” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Densley holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford.
It’s time to rethink Minnesota’s system of police education and training
Only legislative action on the Minnesota model of police officer education can save us from more bullets and bloodshed.
To Minnesota sports fans, from an Englishman: Don’t stop believing
Something is happening in the world of sports right now that is so unexpected, so miraculous, that it might just warm a frozen Minnesota heart.
Guns don’t kill people — but they do get people killed
Since the 1960s, social psychologists have documented a “weapons effect,” whereby the mere presence of a weapon increases aggression in people.
What London gangs can teach us about London terrorists
Only by starving terrorists of the oxygen of publicity can we hope to challenge the rationalization of their own pathologies and their reputation of power.
So, what will actually work to reduce gun violence?
The real problem is the 40% of gun transactions that occur in the illegal “secondary market”; the vast majority of weapons in this market are handguns.
After Sandy Hook, ‘zero-tolerance’ policies are making schools less safe
Part of the problem is that police officers are trained in how to deal with conflict, not how to counsel youth and defuse typical adolescent drama.
