Brenden Beck

Associate Professor @RutgersSCJ studying policing, city budgets, and housing.
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[Brenden Beck @BrendenBeck]

When times are tight, do cities cut police or social service budgets more? In a 🚨new study🚨, I find revenue loss is associated with shallow, temporary cuts to policing and deep, enduring cuts to social services. The article, in Criminology, is free. https://t.co/munpBSdwYb

[PNASNews @PNASNews]

Automated speed cameras, which detect and fine speeding motorists, reduced total collisions by around 30% and injuries by around 16%, on average, within 900 feet of intersections in the first 7 months of deployment in New York City. In PNAS: https://t.co/BxROQUr7Wb

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Wait...

Speed cameras work?

"Cumulatively, over the seven months following [speed camera's] introduction, collisions declined by 30% and injuries by 16%."

[Aaron Stagoff @aaron_stagoff]

Do speed cameras work? Our new study in @PNASNews provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s automated enforcement program, finding large reductions in collisions (30%) & injuries (16%). From me, @BrendenBeck and @jbenmenachem. https://t.co/cbpVP2MF1z

[Brenden Beck @BrendenBeck]

@mattyglesias Interesting. It seems like if Mamdani promised higher pay then kept the share of funding low once in office, that would be in the Sanders mold.

[Brenden Beck @BrendenBeck]

@mattyglesias Ok. Maybe it's still an indication that funding the police department was not a priority of Mayor Sanders?

[Brenden Beck @BrendenBeck]

@mattyglesias During Sanders' mayoralty, the Burlington police budget was the lowest it has been for last half century.

[Brenden Beck @BrendenBeck]

@daveweigel During Sanders' mayoralty, the Burlington police budget was the lowest it has been for last half century.

[Brenden Beck @BrendenBeck]

@mariacarreri This looks amazing! Do you know when you might share the dataset?

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@CarolynChernoff @RutgersSCJ Thanks, Carolyn! Hope you’re well.

[Brenden Beck @BrendenBeck]

It’s true, I have joined the faculty at the @RutgersSCJ. I will dearly miss my CU Denver colleagues and students, but I’m excited to return to the NYC area and work alongside the amazing criminal justice scholars at Rutgers. If you’re in the area, get in touch!

[Rutgers SCJ @RutgersSCJ]

School of Criminal Justice @Rutgers_Newark welcomes Dr. @BrendenBeck to its esteemed faculty this fall as an Associate Professor. #highered

[Brenden Beck @BrendenBeck]

@vbacak @RutgersSCJ Thanks, Valerio!

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@joshuakeating @RutgersSCJ Thanks, Josh!

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@Roseann97Ann @RutgersSCJ @Rutgers_Newark Thanks, Rose Ann!

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@ps_hepburn @RutgersSCJ Thanks, Peter! We'll have to get lunch soon.

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@profharvnich @RutgersSCJ Thanks, Harvey!

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@Shjarback_CCJ @RutgersSCJ Thanks. Yes, I'll drop a line once I'm settled at Rutgers!

[Heather Schoenfeld @HeatherS_25]

.@BUsociologydept is hiring two assistant professors! Sociology of sexualities and sociology of race & ethnicity. See position ads below. @ASAnews

[Brenden Beck @BrendenBeck]

@PeterMoskos @LessCrime @jnixy @mwrubin ...construction, accidents when driving, etc.) and I think the higher fatality numbers in construction/logging/etc support that. Though if we're appealing to a more qualitative definition of "danger," like the "nature" or "reducibility" of the danger, data won't be much help.

[Brenden Beck @BrendenBeck]

@PeterMoskos @LessCrime @jnixy @mwrubin I hear you about the irrational human interactions element. That seems unique, though present to a lesser extent in ER nursing and some social work jobs. I'm less convinced that policing is uniquely unpredictable or instantaneous (weather when roofing, mechanical failures in ...