TOPIC
Criminal Justice
A Non-Exhaustive Taxonomy of Tools of Data-Driven Policing
A huge range of emergent technologies give police new ways to gather data and surveil. What's on the market?
Walk the Walk
For decades, city governments have pledged to clear neighborhood streets of crime and police abuse in the same stroke. But can community policing deliver on its promises?
Design Around the Edges
In the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, an architect and planner forges connections and fashions safety in fifteen neighborhoods.
Stronger Together
Young residents of Brownsville, Brooklyn, look for safety amidst persistent poverty and crime, as well as community organizations determined to change the neighborhood's narrative.
Do You Feel Secure?
For decades, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design has touted the efficacy of bollards, gates, and cameras in deterring violent acts — with scant evidence. At what cost do we build “defensible space”?
Beacon / Bunker
Photographer Kris Graves tracks all 77 NYPD precincts from Tottenville to Edenwald, looking to these buildings — sometimes humble, sometimes imposing — for the face and footprint of law and order in the neighborhood.
Yes Sitting, Yes Skating, Yes Music
Where can teenagers hang out and be safe in public?
Structures: Perspectives
The buildings where fates, freedoms, and justice are decided sit at the center of our image of the justice system. What form should they take? How should they work?
Siting Rikers' Replacements
The city's plans call for new borough jails to replace those at Rikers. A set of drawings examines land uses in the boroughs' civic centers to consider: Can New Yorkers accept jails as neighbors?
Retrofit for Fairness
The city oversees an experiment: Can new signage and instructions improve experiences in New York’s busiest criminal courthouse?