WHO SHOULD READ THIS IMPORTANT STORY: * people in IL * people outside IL READ IT *NOW* IF YOU: * are interested in crime policy * are interested in immigration policy * follow economics * listen to/read Freakanomics * vote in Cook Co * breathe air, probably chicagoreader.com/news/electro... - ThreadSky

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slkollmann.bsky.social • 17 days ago

WHO SHOULD READ THIS IMPORTANT STORY:

* people in IL
* people outside IL

READ IT *NOW* IF YOU:

* are interested in crime policy
* are interested in immigration policy
* follow economics
* listen to/read Freakanomics
* vote in Cook Co
* breathe air, probably

https://chicagoreader.com/news/electronic-monitoring-steven-levitt-freakonomics/

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ianthe.online•17 days ago

📌

jesspish.bsky.social•17 days ago

oh wow the stephen levitt connection. i need to sit and read the whole thing but amazing

jesspish.bsky.social•17 days ago

idk why (lol i do know) but fake science and cops are a match made in heaven.

bson.bsky.social•17 days ago

jesspish.bsky.social•17 days ago

I was reporting on this "black light spray" being marketed to LEO and kept thinking, are they really this ignorant? Yes, yes they are.

bson.bsky.social•17 days ago

which sprays are these?

jesspish.bsky.social•17 days ago

"smartwater csi" lololololol
https://onezero.medium.com/smartwater-csi-is-either-the-future-of-crimefighting-or-just-a-useless-vial-of-invisible-liquid-ba8530932a2a

elementaleucology.com•17 days ago

This article reintroduced Leavitt to me and may have permanently burned away any goodwill I had for the university.

slackermom.bsky.social•17 days ago

Take the money being used for this monitoring and spend it instead on affordable housing and health care and free community spaces and you’ll see crime drop. But corporate profits and bullshit “law and order” politicians need fodder for the machine. 😢

marinovic.bsky.social•17 days ago

This is a disgusting thing to say. A half step away from “abortion is murder”. Can’t believe he still has credibility after the countless debunkings of his book.

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