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Trump’s pardons continue to normalize corruption. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

This past holiday weekend Chicago saw 50% less shootings and 86% less homicides.☮️ "We celebrate the good days."❤️ chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/05/…

"Upticks in crime driven by misguided policy choices would be tragic, especially coming just as the shock of 2020 is fading. Good news isn’t just hard to find—it can also be fleeting." theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

DOJ recently cut $820 million in federal grants for state & local public safety programs. A new CCJ analysis from Senior Fellow Amy Solomon shows the cuts affected an estimated 554 organizations, with nonprofits accounting for 94% of cuts. Read more: counciloncj.org/doj-funding-cu…

In a piece from Amanda Hernández for Stateline || bsky @stateline.org, Solomon says, “These programs are having to cut staff and cut services, and that will be felt in communities in states all over the country at exactly the time when they’re most needed.” More here: stateline.org/2025/05/29/str…

Interview on the series of coincidences and dumb luck that led to the TACO phenom: cbc.ca/radio/asithapp…

Happy to have contributed to this excellent NPR article by Martin Kaste. If DOJ wanted to make cuts, there were far better, more evidence- and data-informed, ways to go about this. npr.org/2025/05/24/nx-…

Join the VRC in Chicago on 6/6 for a panel on Partnership-Based Violence Reduction at the 2025 PLECET Conference. Learn how cities like Boston and Memphis are reducing gun violence through evidence-informed strategies and collaboration. Register —> plecetconference2025.org/register/

As with crime, we're seeing big declines in overdoses. This is excellent news, but will it last given the administration's dismantling of anti-drug operations, policies, and research? washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/…

I'm all for addressing root causes, but the causal connection between them and violence remains murky. Our best evidence continues to say that if you want to stop violence, do so directly.

Great webinar. Thankful to see some commonsense principles put forward for a bipartisan approach to criminal justice reform.