Anna Harvey
Anna Harvey is Professor of Politics and Director of the Public Safety Lab at New York University. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. Professor Harvey is the Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Expert Panel.
Voting History
Policing and public safety
Increasing police budgets will improve public safety.
| Vote | Confidence |
|---|---|
| Neutral/No Opinion | 5 |
| Median Survey Vote | Median Survey Confidence |
|---|---|
| Agree | 7 |
Increasing social service budgets (e.g. housing, health, education) will improve public safety.
| Vote | Confidence |
|---|---|
| Agree | 7 |
| Median Survey Vote | Median Survey Confidence |
|---|---|
| Agree | 8 |
Comments
Conditional agree, if social services targeted to support proven interventions: summer jobs for disadvantaged youth (Modestino 2019, Davis and Heller 2020), more/better time in school (Deming 2011, Anderson 2014, Hjalmarsson et al 2015), more/better treatment for mental health/substance abuse (Bondurant et al 2018, Kilmer and Midgette 2020)
Increasing accountability for police misconduct will improve public safety.
| Vote | Confidence |
|---|---|
| Strongly Agree | 8 |
| Median Survey Vote | Median Survey Confidence |
|---|---|
| Agree | 6 |
Comments
Reduced accountability for police misconduct leads to more incidents of violent police misconduct (Dharmapala et al forthcoming); judicial interventions to address discriminatory police practices lead to decreases in Black crime victimization (Harvey and Mattia 2021)
Comments
Potentially offsetting effects here: increased police budgets reduce homicides and index crime arrests, but increase arrests for minor offenses (Chalfin et al 2021); prosecuting those minor misdemeanor offenses may harm public safety (Agan et al 2021).