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Police, Sentencing and Prisons: Maximizing Impacts of Criminal Justice Reform
For decades, advocates have been calling for criminal justice reform, only to be frustrated by systemic issues in police misconduct, sentence disparities, overcrowded jails and prisons and laws that adversely…
Using Machine Learning to Evaluate Public Policy
Machine learning is a method for public policy to embrace and employ.…
Defunding the Police: Is it Reducing the Safety of Students?
The Los Angeles Unified School District is redirecting funding to replace many campus police officers with school climate coaches. Will this plan create safer environments for students and staff than…
The President as Integrator in Chief
Mary Parker Follett saw the concept of integration as the highest form of conflict resolution, where the focus is not on different positions but on the wants, interests and values…
DSJ’s Welcome to 2021: Themes From Our Recent Webinars
If public agencies are to be ANTI-racist, all those involved in public service must understand the causes and effects of injustices, name those injustices and take active, diverse, inclusive and…
Problem-Based Learning, Project-Based Learning and Product-Based Learning: What’s the Difference?
It is the subtle differences in problem-based learning and project-based learning that significantly affect how students learn. There is also product-based learning. I advocate using all three PBLs to help…
New Scientific Advances Need Public Policy Governing Use and Abuse
The discovery of gene-editing has demonstrated infinite possibilities for correcting genetic problems, but there is a need for policy to evolve in order to guide the future use of the…
Make Local Roads a National Priority
While the need for fixing local streets and roads is apparent, is anyone talking about actually investing in them?…
Changing the Lives of Public Housing Residents
The Sacramento Housing and Rehabilitation Agency (SHRA) works hard to ensure that its employees see how their work connects to the Agency’s mission. The result is a highly engaged workforce.…
Mourning and Reflections in the Time of COVID-19
In the next international medical emergency, policymakers need to go beyond existing cooperation mechanisms, and be more collaborative about research and more equitable about sharing resources. Ongoing vaccine diplomacies should…
Cities Must Tell the Story to be Transparent
When you can report to citizens the results of their city’s work and tell them the story on a daily basis through electronic media, you have a transparent government. …
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