Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Stop L.A.'s Crime Engine / [USA] LA Times, 23 Jan 2005

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-cop23jan23,1,6236604.story?coll=la-sunday-commentary&ctrack=3&cset=true
Joe Domanick - Senior Fellow in Criminal Justice at USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism
"Prison and parole policies only make the streets more dangerous. A fixation on arrest and crime statistics to gauge police effectiveness is standard in law enforcement — and politics. But the question police chiefs should be asking is what strategies will both prevent crime, short-term and long-term, and help stabilize L.A.'s communities."