policing

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Then-Mayor Rodrigo Guerrero, a Harvard-trained epidemiologist, began treating homicides as a public-health epidemic—mapping violence patterns to deploy police and social programs, a precursor to modern data-driven policing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

The law is “being blatantly abused by the lemon law plaintiffs lawyers, the bar is not policing its own and the courts need to monitor fee awards with far more skepticism and scrutiny.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026

The second half of “Sidewalk Nation” covers sidewalk law, focusing on issues of accessibility, policing, free expression and commerce.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

Yet the enforcement mechanisms for policing Iran’s nuclear work were left to negotiate another day.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026

But even in Los Angeles, a city notorious for bad policing, crime fell at about the same rate as it did in New York once the growth in New York’s police force is accounted for.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt