Aaron Stagoff
@astagoff.bsky.social
phd candidate @UChicagoSoc • formerly @verainstitute
Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I've been rereading @johnmajoreason.bsky.social's outstanding Big House on the Prairie, which argues among other things that we oversell the "prisons are all in rural white places" claim. I wanted to get a sense of the numbers, so produced this. I'll explain, but tl;dr: he's absolutely right.
"While participants believed null findings are important, they often expressed a sense of fatalism around null findings linked to the publication process...these faculty do not recommend pursuing them to graduate students." compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Yes, You Can't! A Multi‐Method Examination of Publishing Null Findings in Sociological Research
Bias against null findings is widespread in scientific fields, including sociology. While scholars see null findings as valuable to the scientific endeavor, this bias has a chilling effect on the pub...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.
BLUE POWER: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves is out TODAY from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social! Pick it up from your favorite infoshop, like @redemmas.org, where I'll be speaking about it tonight at 7pm.
Our recent study in PNAS found that NYC's speed cameras meaningfully reduced collisions and injuries citywide. For @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social, we wrote up some more ideas on how Mayor Mamdani can keep roads safe: www.vitalcitynyc.org/nyc-speed-ca... @astagoff.bsky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social
A Road Safety Blueprint for the Mamdani Administration
Speed cameras should be the first step toward improved transportation infrastructure across New York City.
vitalcitynyc.org
What can Mamdani do to reduce pedestrian deaths and make NYC's roads safer? I wrote about some answers with @jbenmenachem.com and @astagoff.bsky.social in Vital City: www.vitalcitynyc.org/nyc-speed-ca...
A Road Safety Blueprint for the Mamdani Administration
Speed cameras should be the first step toward improved transportation infrastructure across New York City.
vitalcitynyc.org
In @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social today with some ideas for a comprehensive approach to traffic and road safety for the Mamdani administration.
Vital City@vitalcitynyc.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Speed cameras should be the first step toward improved transportation infrastructure across New York City." What do you think? www.vitalcitynyc.org/nyc-speed-ca...
"Speed cameras should be the first step toward improved transportation infrastructure across New York City." What do you think? www.vitalcitynyc.org/nyc-speed-ca...
A Road Safety Blueprint for the Mamdani Administration
Speed cameras should be the first step toward improved transportation infrastructure across New York City.
vitalcitynyc.org
Second Carceral Political Economy conference happening Mar 27 & 28 @ The New School. Free to attend! *Register at the link.* And I’ll be moderating a great panel on labor/the carceral state on 3/28, in the morning. inquest.org/carceral-pol...
Carceral Political Economy Conference 2026 - Inquest
Inquest is cosponsoring this year’s Carceral Political Economy Conference at The New School for Social Research, New York City, March 27–28, 2026.
inquest.org
Really looking forward to presenting tomorrow as a part of the session "Police Unions, Labor Politics, and the Penal State," with Stuart Schrader, Imani Radney, and Aaron Bekemeyer, historians who are doing cutting edge research on the rise of police unions! @inquest.bsky.social
Bkbeagle@bkbeagle.bsky.social · 5mo agoFull schedule for our second Carceral Political Economy conference has just been released! NYC March 27 + 28th at the New School, with support from @inquest.bsky.social! Links to the program and registration below 1/3
Full schedule for our second Carceral Political Economy conference has just been released! NYC March 27 + 28th at the New School, with support from @inquest.bsky.social! Links to the program and registration below 1/3
Not to reopen speed camera discourse again, but here's yet another study finding that these cameras create significant safety benefits. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... (Okay yes, I *am* reopening this discourse, because I will fight anyone in defense of automated traffic enforcement.)
Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City | PNAS
Each year, approximately 40,000 people die in vehicle collisions in the United States, generating $340 billion in economic costs. To make roads saf...
pnas.org
But they do. There's data showing they do. This by someone who I think is less carceral than me and I'm betting does not own shares of Flock. What you suggest likely works better. But they also take more time, face tougher political hurdles, so there are transition paths to think about too.
jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 8mo agoOur new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
Automated speed cameras, which detect and fine speeding motorists, reduced total collisions by around 30% and injuries by around 16%, on average, within 900 feet of intersections in the first 7 months of deployment in New York City. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/CHq550XHyla
We've been banging this drum for years, and the data confirms it: Speed cameras work. buff.ly/RJdCV0u
Thursday's Headlines: Speed Cameras Work Edition - Streetsblog New York City
A new study bolsters the city's program. Plus the hot stove has been extinguished for the Mets. And other news.
nyc.streetsblog.org
Important new paper on the efficacy of NYC's speed-camera program, the largest in the country
jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 8mo agoWhen cameras are installed, they issue many violations in the first month, followed by a steep decline in the second month. This suggests that the cameras effectively deter speeding by changing underlying driver behavior rather than relying on sustained revenue extraction.
Automated speed enforcement works extremely well.
jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 8mo agoOur new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
Do those pesky speed cameras work? New research from me, @astagoff.bsky.social, and @jbenmenachem.com finds they reduce collisions and injuries. Read thread or article for more. DM me for article if you can't scale the paywall.
jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 8mo agoOur new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City | PNAS
Each year, approximately 40,000 people die in vehicle collisions in the United States, generating $340 billion in economic costs. To make roads saf...
pnas.org
