Robert VerBruggen

1 week ago | manhattan.institute | Robert VerBruggen

Public Safety, Cities, Governance 17 Minute Read Share Nationwide, homicide surged in 2020 and 2021, before slowly decreasing over 2022 and 2023. It is crucial to understand the dynamics driving this change, so that policymakers can prevent conditions conducive to such surges and can gain a stronger understanding of what drives crime in general.

1 week ago | city-journal.org | Robert VerBruggen

House Republicans have passed their “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”—that’s indeed the title—to be sent to the Senate for consideration and reworking. Would the bill, in its current form, improve or worsen the status quo? It needs work. As written, the bill extends the tax cuts enacted in 2017 at considerable cost, adds numerous gimmicks to the tax code, and only partially addresses the damage to the budget with spending cuts.

2 weeks ago | manhattan.institute | Robert VerBruggen

REVIEW: ‘Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence’ by Jens LudwigJens Ludwig is an economist who’s seen some things. A longtime gun-violence researcher who directs the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, he’s accompanied cops to murder scenes and on high-speed chases. America’s efforts to control gun violence, he argues in Unforgiving Places, are coming up short.

2 weeks ago | freebeacon.com | Robert VerBruggen

Jens Ludwig is an economist who’s seen some things. A longtime gun-violence researcher who directs the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, he’s accompanied cops to murder scenes and on high-speed chases. America’s efforts to control gun violence, he argues in Unforgiving Places, are coming up short. Liberals’ focus on "root causes" and conservatives’ support for incarceration both seek to shape the deeper incentives surrounding violence—and to incapacitate violent people, in prison’s case.

3 weeks ago | foxnews.com | Robert VerBruggen

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