Super pairing to begin the evening… Anchovies and butter, 05 Vatan Sancerre and 10 Raveneau Chablis.

Copper River salmon and 2025 Emido Pepe rose (cerasulo). Perfect pairing

I screamed at the clouds in front of my students last week during “Violence in Society” over the Buffalo massacre. How am I supposed to do it again tonight? Well enough ever be enough?

It's pretty simple, but that doesn't make it easy. Read on.

Such great work by my colleagues, Emily Owens, John Hipp, Clarissa Iliff and Seth Williams! Thanks for all your on this study!

"Affordable housing at the very worst has no impact on crime or housing values." -George Tita (George Tita). Affordable Homes Don’t Increase Crime or Dent Orange County Property Values, Says UCI Study. Learn more socialeco.news/UciStudy892dda UC Irvine #AffordableHousing

“When it comes to housing prices, we see a very large increase on the average sales price and square footage valuation of a home, right after the opening of affordable units.” - George Tita socialeco.news/OrangeCounty05… UC Irvine #AffordableHousing ABC7 Eyewitness News

“The evidence is clear that when you can take a firearm out of the hands of somebody that is in distress or has committed an act of domestic intimate partner violence, that those laws save lives.” George Tita (George Tita) socialeco.news/States514f39 UC Irvine #GunViolence

UCI Criminology Law and Society is hiring at associate to full. We are interested in people thinking about the limits of formal legal systems and specific policies that can work against systemic anti-Blackness. Advanced assistants welcome. full ad here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF07628

The yard in Bozeman is coming along!

As is the rooftop deck.

A boy, his dog, and a giant brown trout…

Oh, my… not “4-17”… that turned out well for Pistol Pete Gonzales and the panthers 25 years ago. End this now!

REMINDER: UC Irvine's Livable Cities Lab Director George Tita & Jamboree Housing CEO Laura Archuleta talk "A House, A Home, A Hope: The OC Housing Shortage is More Than Just a Homelessness Issue" at ChangeMakers' Daybreak Dialogues 7:30 a.m. tomorrow (Wed.) tinyurl.com/ycyvpw8c

How is gang violence contagious? Jason Gravel, Matthew Valasik, Joris Mulder, Roger Leenders Carter T. Butts, @tanaro1 et al explore direction & temporal order of conflicts between LA gangs with REMs. They find that retaliation is key, but also other mechanisms matter cambridge.org/core/journals/…

"We need solutions now," says George Tita, Livable Cities Lab director and professor of criminology, law & society at UC Irvine, on campus-wide efforts to address workplace and housing shortages. See his Faculty Spotlight video: tinyurl.com/pww3mtr4 #ScienceDrivingSolutions

REMINDER: UC Irvine criminology, law & society Prof George Tita & PhD student Clarissa Iliff speak at UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's webinar "Owning & Storing Firearms, Fear of Being a Victim of Gun Violence Among Latino & Asian Adults in California" Tues., 11/28, noon-1:30pm. tinyurl.com/y7f6edh8

Violent crime in Oakland — including homicides, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults — fell 19% from 2023 to 2024, according to OPD’s end-of-year crime report. My latest story for The Oaklandside: oaklandside.org/2025/01/14/oak…