Passion and Control: Maintaining Public Safety in Times of Protest

The past few months have seen political and moral discourse reach dangerous new boiling points on a variety of fronts, and now, a series of suspicious devices have been sent to politically prominent people, congressional offices have been vandalized and increasing...

When Politics have Deadly Consequences

This article in The Hill poses the question of whether there a correlation between the growing anti-enforcement political climate and a rise in violent crime. The article specifically uses the example of the current heated race for Philadelphia District Attorney where...

How ’60 Minutes’ got it wrong about Chicago

This piece in The Hill looks at last Sunday’s “60 Minutes” segment entitled “Crisis in Chicago” and discuses how their analysis fails to truly explore the cause and effect of a violent crime epidemic in Chicago that left 764 people dead...

The Hill: Why facts matter in police shootings

My latest piece in The Hill looks at the differences between the two lives lost in Los Angeles County this week. As quoted: “Black Lives Matter” vs. “All Lives Matter” is, in my opinion a false dichotomy. As someone who grew up in both New York and Los Angeles during...