Hannah Meyers Journalist Profile

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Re-Grounding Criminology in Reality: 10 Blocks podcast

1 month ago | city-journal.org | Anthony A. Braga |John MacDonald |David Weisburd |Hannah Meyers

Three leading criminologists—Anthony A. Braga, John M. MacDonald, and David Weisburd—discuss ideological influences on the study of policing. The panel is moderated by Manhattan Institute scholar Hannah Meyers for the 2024 George L. Kelling Lecture. Hannah E. Meyers: Welcome everyone. I’m Hannah Myers, director of Policing and Public Safety for the Manhattan Institute.
We’ve Forgotten a Key Part of Counterterrorism

Jan 2, 2025 | city-journal.org | Hannah Meyers

In the early hours of New Year’s Day, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran from Houston, plowed his rented truck through revelers on New Orleans’s Bourbon Street. Then he jumped out and initiated the shootout that ended his life, wounding two police officers. Police found an ISIS flag, weapons, and an improvised explosive device in Jabbar’s pick-up truck, along with two more IEDs in the area. Jabbar’s attack left at least 14 dead and dozens more hurt.
The subway fire slay proves NYC must stop coddling criminals

Dec 28, 2024 | nypost.com | Hannah Meyers

Repeat Offenders to City: Drop Dead. New York lawmakers have been viewing criminals through rose-colored glasses. The past decade of reform policies treated offenders as innocent neighbors bamboozled by “root causes,” like poverty or poor education, into doing bad things. Our sympathetic laws chipped away at the criminal justice system’s ability to arrest, prosecute and incarcerate these lambs, instead offering them social services — so they wouldn’t want to prey on others.
The Subway Fire Slay Proves NYC Must Stop Coddling Criminals

Dec 28, 2024 | manhattan.institute | Hannah Meyers

Cities, Public Safety New York, New York City, Crime Control, Policing Repeat Offenders to City: Drop Dead. New York lawmakers have been viewing criminals through rose-colored glasses. The past decade of reform policies treated offenders as innocent neighbors bamboozled by “root causes,” like poverty or poor education, into doing bad things.
New York voters: Don’t fail the next Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely — oust DA Bragg and the soft-on-crime radicals

Dec 9, 2024 | nypost.com | Hannah Meyers

Daniel Penny leaving court after being acquitted in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely. Steven Hirsch A jury rightly has found Daniel Penny not responsible for Jordan Neely’s death. It is the voters of New York who are.
Dear NY Voters: Don’t Fail the Next Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely - Oust DA Bragg and the Soft-on-Crime Radicals

Dec 9, 2024 | manhattan.institute | Hannah Meyers

Governance, Public Safety New York, New York City A jury rightly has found Daniel Penny not responsible for Jordan Neely’s death. It is the voters of New York who are. We foolishly elected policymakers like former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, who enacted extremist policies that upended the bail laws and tied police officers’ hands when dealing with violent suspects.
NYC Administration for Children’s Services failing families, ‘trading child safety for racial equity’: Whistleblower

Dec 2, 2024 | nypost.com | Hannah Meyers

Young activists hold posters at a balloon release in memory of Jahmeik Modlin, who died by starving to death.
NYC puts social justice over child safety with deadly results: ACS caseworker

Dec 1, 2024 | nypost.com | Hannah Meyers

In October, New York City was horrified when 4-year-old Jahmeik Modlin died hours after being found malnourished and suffering from hypothermia, with reported burns on his skin, in his family’s Harlem apartment. It was just the latest in a much-too-long line of kids who died despite their guardians having been investigated by the Administration for Children’s Services. Here, an anonymous child protective specialist at ACS tells policing and public-safety expert Hannah E.
NYC Puts Social Justice over Child Safety with Deadly Results: ACS Caseworker

Dec 1, 2024 | manhattan.institute | Hannah Meyers

In October, New York City was horrified when 4-year-old Jahmeik Modlin died hours after being found malnourished and suffering from hypothermia, with reported burns on his skin, in his family’s Harlem apartment. It was just the latest in a much-too-long line of kids who died despite their guardians having been investigated by the Administration for Children’s Services. Here, an anonymous child protective specialist at ACS tells policing and public-safety expert Hannah E.
Trump won’t solve NYC’s migrant problem without a return to law-and-order

Nov 30, 2024 | nypost.com | Hannah Meyers

Since spring 2022, New York has seen a staggering 223,000 migrants and asylum seekers enter the city.