UP Links 19 March 2012

+ Brandon Fuller

Richard Bennet’s case study of the Peace Police Unit in Rio’s favelas.

We do not plan to end the drug trade. There are drugs in New York; there are drugs in Paris. Wherever you have demand, you are going to need supply,” he said. “What we want to do is maintain free access for the people in these areas to come and go safely. Our main goal is to disarm and then implement public and private services effectively in these areas.”

Jonathan Haidt - Forget the Money, Follow the Sacredness

…when your opponent is the devil, bargaining and compromise are themselves forms of sacrilege.

Sarah Fecht - Roosevelt Island’s pneumatic trash collection system

Joan Petersilla remembers James Q. Wilson - The Crime Report

Ginia Bellafante on Island of Vicea book about Theodore Roosevelt’s tenure as NYC police chief.

Those on the right rarely seem to appreciate how wholesome and familial the city has become…Liberals of a certain kind, though, are too often heard lamenting a lost authenticity — the vanishing of a drug-addled, peepshow Manhattan that they were, in so many instances, too young or cosseted to inhabit…But it is an infatuation with a period beyond memory and apprehension — far dirtier in every conceivable respect — that animates “Island of Vice,” Richard Zacks’s new book chronicling the brief, doomed tenure of Theodore Roosevelt as president of the board of the city’s police commissioners.
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