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Hard as it is to believe when reading the news, the homicide rate in London has *halved* over the past 20 years. In the past two decades London has gained 1.7 million extra residents and yet the annual number of homicides has gone down from 212 in 2003 to 110 in 2023.

📢We’ve made a Be the Chancellor tool The next government will inherit spending cuts & tax increases. The tool shows some of the big choices and trade-offs 4 things that jump out at me:

A quick look at some Crime Survey for England and Wales data on public perceptions of policing for the year to Sept 2023 (with 95% confidence intervals). Met and E&W highlighted. First, overall confidence in local policing.

British workers are LESS likely to take sick leave than in any other rich developed country. #FactsMatter, thank you Ben Page

In honor of National Crime Victims' Rights Week, I'm going to highlight some research I love on crime victims — a group that is crucial to understand but difficult to study due to (understandable) data restrictions.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-688509… Good news! Large scale changes in routine activity>>small scale targeted policing ...but "every little helps"

Your periodic reminder that England, a windswept nation with more potential for onshore wind power than almost anywhere else in the world (other than Scotland), banned new onshore wind farms in 2017.

Transcripts of days 24 - 27 of the London Capital & Finance trial at the High Court have been uploaded to the court documents page #LCFtrial #openjustice mouseinthecourtroom.wordpress.com/2024/03/10/cou…

.....I think my main reference point for this staircase is... The front cover of multilevel modelling in Stata book.... 🤓

bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-p… Question is... How will that deterrent effect be achieved? What are the steps in the process from: Flights begin To Person trying to get to Britain on a boat deciding not to? Backfire risks: no effect on market in Europe & create one in Rwanda

It's only a "£75 billion increase" over 6 years if you assume that spending would otherwise have been frozen in cash terms for 6 years - i.e. only if the government was, until today, planning to breach its NATO commitments. This is such an unhelpful way to present the figures.

Is London a dangerous city? One way to answer that is to compare London to other major global cities. TL;DR: crime in London isn’t particularly high compared to other global cities in Europe and North America, but is higher than in Asia. A thread 🧵 …

Again, renationalise water companies or make them not for profit

In their Cozzarelli Prize-winning PNASNews study, Florencia Torche & Jenna Nobles found that COVID-19 vaccines likely prevented thousands of preterm births, a heightened risk among maternal COVID infections early in the pandemic. Watch as they explain: ow.ly/reN650SohGC

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What do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."

Natural experiment/RDD in the wild available to anyone who can get the data bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This is a brilliant read