What links together many of the planks of Kahan’s reform program is a line of reasoning that goes something like this: (a) the key to crime control at the neighborhood level is the sense of trust that neighbors have in one another and in the police; (b) trust is undermined, and crime flourishes, when residents lose the sense that there are shared norms of good conduct in the neighborhood or that norm-violators will be effectively sanctioned; and… [read post]

District Judge Samuel B. [read post]