A historical reconstruction of the Big Apple’s crime decline, told from inside the institutions responsible for public safety.
Michael Javen Fortner
Michael Javen Fortner, author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, is Pamela B. Gann Associate Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow and Director of the Dreier Roundtable at Claremont McKenna College. He is also a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center in Washington, D.C.
