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Aaron Stagoff

@astagoff.bsky.social
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phd candidate @UChicagoSoc • formerly @verainstitute

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 21/08/2026
I think, basically, there are important debates we should have about methodology standards, reproducibility norms, and so on. But I have never seen an argument that credibly links methods concerns to “ideological drift.” Such poorly made arguments typically imply other disciplines have no politic!
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20/08/2026
Just nuts. I benefited immensely from NSF GRF. The ladder was pulled up almost immediately after I got my award.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 31/07/2026
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/...
Beyond Police Stenography: How Disembedding Enables Critical Crime News Work

Prior research finds that crime journalists reproduced criminal justice organization standpoints through close working relationships with law enforcement. How do crime reporters relate to police sources today? Drawing on interviews with 58 journalists across 40 local newsrooms in 24 U.S. states, I find that disembedding from law enforcement organizations restructures many reporters’ source relationships, creating conditions under which some journalists enact a distinct professional identity through occupational activism. I argue that the critical crime journalist role is distinguished by a commitment to alternative sourcing practices, structural framing, and reinterpreted objectivity. Informants connect critical orientations to repeated exposure to official dishonesty and the influence of Black-led social movements against police violence. Critical crime journalists amplify civilian and prisoner voices and engage in contextual reporting, treating coverage as a vehicle to shift how readers understand criminalized people and the criminal justice system more broadly. These findings extend scholarship on occupational activism into crime journalism and identify pathways into this form of empirical and expressive occupational activism.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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.
A density plot with three colors, red, blue. and green, with the red having a rightward skew vs. the others.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 21/05/2026
"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....
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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...
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/04/2026
The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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.
Cover of Blue Power with Red Emma's detail badge: 4/14 7pm
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 07/04/2026
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
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A Road Safety Blueprint for the Mamdani Administration
Speed cameras should be the first step toward improved transportation infrastructure across New York City.
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Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 07/04/2026
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...
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A Road Safety Blueprint for the Mamdani Administration
Speed cameras should be the first step toward improved transportation infrastructure across New York City.
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Aaron Stagoff @astagoff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social today with some ideas for a comprehensive approach to traffic and road safety for the Mamdani administration.
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Vital City @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"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...
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A Road Safety Blueprint for the Mamdani Administration
Speed cameras should be the first step toward improved transportation infrastructure across New York City.
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Sandeep @sandeepinbk.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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...
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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.
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Aaron Stagoff @astagoff.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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
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Bkbeagle @bkbeagle.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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.)
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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...
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 11/12/2025
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: ow.ly/CHq550XHyla
Traffic enforcement camera in New York City. Stock photo.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 11/12/2025
We've been banging this drum for years, and the data confirms it: Speed cameras work. buff.ly/RJdCV0u
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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.
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Marcel Moran @marcelmoran.com · 09/12/2025
Important new paper on the efficacy of NYC's speed-camera program, the largest in the country
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Vital City @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
After NYC installed 2,000 speed cameras, crashes fell 30% and injuries 16%. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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StreetsPAC @streetspac.org · 09/12/2025
Automated speed enforcement works extremely well.
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Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 08/12/2025
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.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 08/12/2025
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 🧪
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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...
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