Jeff Asher

I'm Jeff Asher, and this is the Jeffalytics Podcast.

It takes a certain kind of leader to see a city deemed the country's murder capital and actually want to take on that problem.

Chief Ann Kirkpatrick has spent 44 years working in some of the most challenging departments in the country.

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Until next time, I'm Jeff Asher.

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One of the hardest questions facing any mayor and a question that most mayors struggle to answer fully is how you actually know if what you're doing is working.

Gloria Gong co-founded the Government Performance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School 12 years ago to help cities bridge the gap between policy and implementation.

And we work with states and cities all across the U.S., specifically in helping them figure out how to bridge from policy into implementation.

And how do you approach sort of public safety as an issue? And then how did that become something that you were sort of interested in from the lab perspective?

Jeff, we try to listen really closely to the governments that we work with.

And so one thing I think really sent us down this pathway is that we were convening mayors and state leaders at Harvard.

And we were asking them just what are the most important things that you're facing as a public servant? And I think every mayor that we talked to told us that public safety was their number one concern.

I'm Jeff Asher, and this is the Jeffalytics podcast.

[upbeat music] Most Americans have never heard of the Major Crimes Act.

Passed in 1885, it stripped Native American nations of the right to prosecute felony crimes on their own land and handed that authority to the federal government, where it has stayed ever since.

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Now we're finally seeing growth.

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They're also a major exploiter of crime and violence.

To dig into all these issues, we sit down with Jeff Asher, a nationally recognized crime analyst and co-founder of AH DataLytix.

He writes a weekly newsletter and hosts the Jeffalytics podcast, a show about measuring crime and communicating trends.

Let's get to our discussion.

Jeff Asher, thank you so much for joining us.

We really appreciate it.

Thanks for having me.

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