A review by em_reads_books
Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence by Patrick Sharkey

3.0

This is good, it spells out what's happening and how we know and what we don't know super clearly. I particularly like the author's willingness to entertain points of view he doesn't share and explain exactly what one can and can't conclude from a study. It really does feel like a barrage of stats and studies, though, like more of a research article than a good narrative book. Recommended if you're interested in the subject and want to get some facts and myths sorted out in your mind, just with that caveat that it's very much social science versus an on-the-ground story of what's going on.