New Video and Future Video Plans

Hello all!

Thanks for your patience as I've put this new one together! This time we're talking about the revolution in urban policing that has taken the US by storm in the last thirty years: broken windows policing. While it has done little to address serious crime, we discuss how the broken windows strategy is actually a critical component of America's urban transformation in the last thirty years, forming an illusion of order and prosperity to prop up a society increasingly plagued by soaring inequality and intractable social problems. It's a bit of a downer this time around, but I felt this was a topic that must be discussed, even if the outlook seems quite bleak.

The next video is already in the works, and should come together much more quickly. Since this video is quite pessimistic, I've decided to put together something more optimistic: a video documenting the best alternatives to sprawl from around the world, demonstrating what's possible and what the US can strive for in the future.

However, I do want to give y'all some input in exchange for your generous contributions, so I will be putting up a poll sometime soon to decide on the topic for the video after that. If you have any ideas on what should be included in the poll, please leave them in the comments below and I will select those that appeal to me the most for the final poll.

I also wanted to briefly mention the reason for the delay. I've been in the midst of graduate school applications since March, which dramatically slowed down video production for the last few months. I'm glad to announce that I've been admitted to a program in the Netherlands and will be starting this fall. Since I will be in a graduate program while working part-time, I expect video production may slow down for the duration--I'm setting a target of at least one video every three months once school starts and will do my best to stick to it, but I can't guarantee anything.