John Buntin

Recent Articles

• Public university cuts, a surefire way to cut income
• Nov 19, 2008
• Among economists, one of the most talked about books of the past year has been The Race Between Education and Technology . This blandly named, data-rich ...

• Are Drug Courts Our Best HOPE?
• Oct 16, 2008
• The New York Times has an interesting update on drug courts. Here's the money quote: "[R]ecidivism rates for participants are reduced by about 10 ...
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• Alert! Alert!
• Sep 30, 2008
• Call it the Red Scare. Earlier this summer, on a quiet Friday afternoon, the BlackBerrys and cell phones of some 25,000 residents of Arlington County, Virginia,...

• Skid Row-style Health Care
• Aug 6, 2008
• First, Los Angeles area hospitals were caught dumping destitute patients in Skid Row. Now, they're allegedly filling beds (and bilking Medicare) by recruiting patients from ...
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• Lifeline
• Jul 31, 2008
• To some, Parkland Memorial Hospital will always be remembered as a place of death -- the hospital where President John F. Kennedy succumbed to gunshot...

• Prison construction as economic stimulus?
• Jul 29, 2008
• Does a new prison boost the local economy? The Nacogdoches, TX, Daily Sentinel investigates... (Hat-tip to Crime and Justice News .)
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• Thinking About Crime
• Jun 11, 2008
• James Q. Wilson, perhaps the nation's most influential criminologist (though he'd hate that label...), is guest blogging on Vololkh conspiracy this week. Here's a wonderfully ...

• Gundemic
• May 31, 2008
• Every day, a kid is brought in -- head hung, wrists cuffed behind his (or, occasionally, her) back, a police officer on each arm, steering...

• Is Urban Violence a Virus?
• May 5, 2008
• Sunday's New York Times Magazine examines a "violence interruption" program in Chicago that is premised on an affirmative answer to this provocative question. ...
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• "Green-Collar" Jobs -- Great Idea or Gimmick?
• May 2, 2008
• By now, anyone following the Democratic Presidential nomination has heard a great deal about so-called "green-collar" jobs. Barack Obama has promised five million ...
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• Solid Brass
• Nov 1, 2007
• Just how natural became apparent one day in 1975 when Bratton, a rookie sergeant with the Boston Police Department, got a call that would have made a veteran blanch: bank holdup; shot fired; possible hostage situation.

• Land Rush
• Mar 1, 2006
• Inner cities are becoming hot places to live. Does government have any business telling developers to keep out?

• Land Rush
• Feb 28, 2006
• From his fifth-floor office, Garnet Coleman can almost see the gleaming new urban lofts lapping at the edge of Houston's Third Ward. Artists began moving...

• Schoolmaker
• Dec 1, 2005
• Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson can charter a new school anytime he wants. That gives him lots of power--and lots of headaches as well.

• Battle of the Badges
• Sep 1, 2005
• Tense relations between police and fire departments, long a fact of life in many cities, are now emerging as a serious domestic- preparedness problem.