Reducing Crime by Improving Neighborhoods

On this episode of After Hours, Jamie sits down with two architects of that history: Elizabeth Glazer, former head of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, and Renita Francois, former executive director of the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP).Together, they dive into the legacy of Neighborhood Stat — a model that treated safety not just as a matter for the police, but as a joint project involving sanitation, parks, and, most importantly, the residents themselves. As the Mamdani administration begins its work, Glazer and Francois offer a roadmap for "putting the public back in public safety" and a cautionary tale about why the data that drives these decisions must never be allowed to go dormant. https://map.cityofnewyork.us/neighborhood-stat/ For more solutions-oriented thinking on urban life, visit the Vital City website at https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/.