How AI tools can help assess verbal eyewitness statements Image: iStock/Aphithana Chitmongkolthong How AI tools can help assess verbal eyewitness statements Quattrone Center Academic Director Paul Heaton’s new paper explores how he and his co-authors trained a large language model to parse eyewitness confidence statements.
How Penn researchers are helping address group violence in Baltimore Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott speaks at a press conference on results from its Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which University of Pennsylvania researchers helped implement and analyze, and next steps. (Image: Courtesy of Jack French/Baltimore Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement) How Penn researchers are helping address group violence in Baltimore The Crime and Justice Policy Lab has seen encouraging results from its work implementing a Group Violence Reduction Strategy in part of the city.
‘False positive’ field drug tests lead to wrongful convictions Image: iStock/MattGush ‘False positive’ field drug tests lead to wrongful convictions A new Quattrone Center report shows that the use of presumptive field tests in drug arrests is one of the largest known contributing factors to wrongful arrests and convictions.
Too many Philly police are no-shows in court, derailing cases and undermining our justice system Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer Too many Philly police are no-shows in court, derailing cases and undermining our justice system Research by Sandra Mayson of Penn Carey Law, Aurelie Ouss of the School of Arts & Sciences, and doctoral candidate Linsday Graef finds that Philadelphia police officers failed to appear in 31% of cases for which they were subpoenaed between 2010 and 2020. Do safe injection sites increase crime rates? What a study our of Brown University found Penn In the News Providence Journal Do safe injection sites increase crime rates? What a study our of Brown University found A study in collaboration with Aaron Chalfin of the School of Arts & Sciences indicates that overdose prevention centers do not lead to increased neighborhood crime rates. Philadelphians hope a cleaner city will reduce gun violence. Will Oh or Parker make it a reality? Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) Philadelphians hope a cleaner city will reduce gun violence. Will Oh or Parker make it a reality? A $3 million blight reduction project in Philadelphia is informed by Penn research showing that cleaning up trash and revitalizing vacant lots can reduce gun violence rates by as much as 29%. There is an invisible Puerto Rican community growing in PA’s prisons Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer There is an invisible Puerto Rican community growing in PA’s prisons Marie Gottschalk of the School of Arts & Sciences says that prison reforms to reduce the number of people incarcerated have been minimal. Gregg Bigda is the poster boy of police brutality in Springfield. But the city can’t—or won’t—fire him Penn In the News Boston Globe Gregg Bigda is the poster boy of police brutality in Springfield. But the city can’t—or won’t—fire him A 2021 Penn analysis of all complaints across the Chicago Police Department revealed that on average, officers generated 1.5 total complaints and 0.2 use of force complaints in a five-year period. When a police shooting really is justified, what do we do with our pain then? Penn In the News NJ.com When a police shooting really is justified, what do we do with our pain then? Richard Berk of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the police shooting of Estiben Alegria-Hurtado in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is a case where 20-20 hindsight can be fairly myopic. Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Penn In the News Wisconsin State Journal Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Data from the Quattrone Center at Penn Carey Law suggests that COVID-19 has caused crime in the U.S. to drop across the nation’s largest cities. Load More
Do safe injection sites increase crime rates? What a study our of Brown University found Penn In the News Providence Journal Do safe injection sites increase crime rates? What a study our of Brown University found A study in collaboration with Aaron Chalfin of the School of Arts & Sciences indicates that overdose prevention centers do not lead to increased neighborhood crime rates. Philadelphians hope a cleaner city will reduce gun violence. Will Oh or Parker make it a reality? Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) Philadelphians hope a cleaner city will reduce gun violence. Will Oh or Parker make it a reality? A $3 million blight reduction project in Philadelphia is informed by Penn research showing that cleaning up trash and revitalizing vacant lots can reduce gun violence rates by as much as 29%. There is an invisible Puerto Rican community growing in PA’s prisons Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer There is an invisible Puerto Rican community growing in PA’s prisons Marie Gottschalk of the School of Arts & Sciences says that prison reforms to reduce the number of people incarcerated have been minimal. Gregg Bigda is the poster boy of police brutality in Springfield. But the city can’t—or won’t—fire him Penn In the News Boston Globe Gregg Bigda is the poster boy of police brutality in Springfield. But the city can’t—or won’t—fire him A 2021 Penn analysis of all complaints across the Chicago Police Department revealed that on average, officers generated 1.5 total complaints and 0.2 use of force complaints in a five-year period. When a police shooting really is justified, what do we do with our pain then? Penn In the News NJ.com When a police shooting really is justified, what do we do with our pain then? Richard Berk of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the police shooting of Estiben Alegria-Hurtado in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is a case where 20-20 hindsight can be fairly myopic. Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Penn In the News Wisconsin State Journal Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Data from the Quattrone Center at Penn Carey Law suggests that COVID-19 has caused crime in the U.S. to drop across the nation’s largest cities. Load More
Philadelphians hope a cleaner city will reduce gun violence. Will Oh or Parker make it a reality? Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) Philadelphians hope a cleaner city will reduce gun violence. Will Oh or Parker make it a reality? A $3 million blight reduction project in Philadelphia is informed by Penn research showing that cleaning up trash and revitalizing vacant lots can reduce gun violence rates by as much as 29%. There is an invisible Puerto Rican community growing in PA’s prisons Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer There is an invisible Puerto Rican community growing in PA’s prisons Marie Gottschalk of the School of Arts & Sciences says that prison reforms to reduce the number of people incarcerated have been minimal. Gregg Bigda is the poster boy of police brutality in Springfield. But the city can’t—or won’t—fire him Penn In the News Boston Globe Gregg Bigda is the poster boy of police brutality in Springfield. But the city can’t—or won’t—fire him A 2021 Penn analysis of all complaints across the Chicago Police Department revealed that on average, officers generated 1.5 total complaints and 0.2 use of force complaints in a five-year period. When a police shooting really is justified, what do we do with our pain then? Penn In the News NJ.com When a police shooting really is justified, what do we do with our pain then? Richard Berk of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the police shooting of Estiben Alegria-Hurtado in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is a case where 20-20 hindsight can be fairly myopic. Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Penn In the News Wisconsin State Journal Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Data from the Quattrone Center at Penn Carey Law suggests that COVID-19 has caused crime in the U.S. to drop across the nation’s largest cities. Load More
There is an invisible Puerto Rican community growing in PA’s prisons Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer There is an invisible Puerto Rican community growing in PA’s prisons Marie Gottschalk of the School of Arts & Sciences says that prison reforms to reduce the number of people incarcerated have been minimal. Gregg Bigda is the poster boy of police brutality in Springfield. But the city can’t—or won’t—fire him Penn In the News Boston Globe Gregg Bigda is the poster boy of police brutality in Springfield. But the city can’t—or won’t—fire him A 2021 Penn analysis of all complaints across the Chicago Police Department revealed that on average, officers generated 1.5 total complaints and 0.2 use of force complaints in a five-year period. When a police shooting really is justified, what do we do with our pain then? Penn In the News NJ.com When a police shooting really is justified, what do we do with our pain then? Richard Berk of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the police shooting of Estiben Alegria-Hurtado in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is a case where 20-20 hindsight can be fairly myopic. Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Penn In the News Wisconsin State Journal Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Data from the Quattrone Center at Penn Carey Law suggests that COVID-19 has caused crime in the U.S. to drop across the nation’s largest cities. Load More
Gregg Bigda is the poster boy of police brutality in Springfield. But the city can’t—or won’t—fire him Penn In the News Boston Globe Gregg Bigda is the poster boy of police brutality in Springfield. But the city can’t—or won’t—fire him A 2021 Penn analysis of all complaints across the Chicago Police Department revealed that on average, officers generated 1.5 total complaints and 0.2 use of force complaints in a five-year period. When a police shooting really is justified, what do we do with our pain then? Penn In the News NJ.com When a police shooting really is justified, what do we do with our pain then? Richard Berk of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the police shooting of Estiben Alegria-Hurtado in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is a case where 20-20 hindsight can be fairly myopic. Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Penn In the News Wisconsin State Journal Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Data from the Quattrone Center at Penn Carey Law suggests that COVID-19 has caused crime in the U.S. to drop across the nation’s largest cities. Load More
When a police shooting really is justified, what do we do with our pain then? Penn In the News NJ.com When a police shooting really is justified, what do we do with our pain then? Richard Berk of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the police shooting of Estiben Alegria-Hurtado in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is a case where 20-20 hindsight can be fairly myopic. Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Penn In the News Wisconsin State Journal Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Data from the Quattrone Center at Penn Carey Law suggests that COVID-19 has caused crime in the U.S. to drop across the nation’s largest cities. Load More
Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Penn In the News Wisconsin State Journal Police searching for Kwik Trip car thief Data from the Quattrone Center at Penn Carey Law suggests that COVID-19 has caused crime in the U.S. to drop across the nation’s largest cities.