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Fighting Crime: Field Notes

Fighting Crime: Field Notes

Written by: Arnold Ventures
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Field Notes is the podcast that dives into the details behind some of the most interesting ideas to improve public safety. In this series, hosts Jennifer Doleac, Julie James, and Kevin Ring are talking to the researchers, practitioners and innovators from all sides who are actually making America safer, and wrestling with some of the hardest problems our society. Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences True Crime
Episodes
  • How to reduce crime, with Greg Newburn

    How to reduce crime, with Greg Newburn
    Jul 16 2026
    Greg Newburn is the Director of Criminal Justice Policy at the Niskanen Center in Washington DC. Niskanen’s a think tank that sits outside the usual political divides - and use evidence to guide smart policy decisions. We talk about why the debate over criminal justice has become so polarised, whether that's actually useful for making people safer, and why he thinks clearance rates - the number of crimes that actually get solved - deserve a lot more attention than it gets.Field Notes is the podcast that dives into the details behind some of the most interesting ideas in improving public safety. In this series, hosts Jennifer Doleac, Julie James, and Kevin Ring are talking to the researchers, practitioners and innovators from all sides who are actually making America safer, wrestling with some of the hardest problems in our society. Field Notes is an Indio Media Production for Arnold Ventures © 2026 Arnold Ventures. All rights reserved.
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    46 mins
  • The Crisis in America’s Prisons, with Andy Potter

    The Crisis in America’s Prisons, with Andy Potter
    Jul 2 2026
    Staffing America's prisons has become one of the hardest challenges in the corrections system. Recruitment is down, keeping staff is difficult, and facilities across the country are looking for answers. Yet it’s an issue the public knows very little about. Andy Potter spent 30 years as a corrections officer before founding One Voice United, an organisation that represents corrections staff in criminal justice conversations. In this episode, he talks about what's driving the staffing shortage, what it means for the people working inside prisons, and what he thinks needs to change. He argues that this is more than a prison HR problem - it’s really a public safety crisis and why more people need to be aware of it.Field Notes is the podcast that dives into the details behind some of the most interesting ideas in improving public safety. In this series, hosts Jennifer Doleac, Julie James, and Kevin Ring are talking to the researchers, practitioners and innovators from all sides who are actually making America safer, wrestling with some of the hardest problems in our society. Field Notes is an Indio Media Production for Arnold Ventures © 2026 Arnold Ventures. All rights reserved.
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    41 mins
  • How lead exposure in children can be fixed, with Robbie Barbero

    How lead exposure in children can be fixed, with Robbie Barbero
    Jun 18 2026
    Robbie Barbero, a senior fellow at Renaissance Philanthropy, has spent years on the science of childhood lead exposure: what it does to the developing brain, how it shows up decades later in school failure, lost earnings and violent crime, and why roughly half a million American children still have elevated lead levels today. If we took lead out of paint and petrol, why is it still here? Where is it coming from now? And if the fix is as simple as testing every child, why aren't we doing it? Barbero makes the case that the real bottleneck is a market failure in diagnostics, and that philanthropy can pay to fix it. He calls eliminating elevated lead levels in American children not a moonshot but a slam dunk. This is a conversation about a solvable problem. Field Notes is an Indio Media Production for Arnold Ventures © 2026 Arnold Ventures. All rights reserved.
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    35 mins
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