Fighting Crime: Field Notes

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.

Fighting Crime: Field Notes is a society podcast hosted by Arnold Ventures, with 7 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Arnold Ventures hosts Fighting Crime: Field Notes, a society show with 7 episodes published.

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  Fighting Crime: Field Notes

  The Truth About Crime Data, with Jeff Asher

  Jul 30, 202644 min

  Could recording statistics help make our communities safer? Jeff Asher, thinks they can. Understanding crime trends in America is harder than it sounds. Data is collected inconsistently, reported late, and often incomplete, which makes it difficult for policymakers and communities to respond effectively. Jeff Asher spent years at the CIA and the New Orleans Police Department before moving into research. He's the creator of the Real Time Crime Index, the most ambitious attempt to give America an accurate, up-to date picture of what's actually happening. In this episode, he talks about what the data shows, the challenges of collecting it, and why he thinks better statistics could lead to better outcomes. 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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  How to reduce crime, with Greg Newburn

  Jul 16, 202646 min

  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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  The Crisis in America’s Prisons, with Andy Potter

  Jul 2, 202641 min

  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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  How lead exposure in children can be fixed, with Robbie Barbero

  Jun 18, 202635 minS1

  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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  How lead exposure in children can be fixed, with Robbie Barbero

  Jun 18, 202635 minS1

  <p>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.</p> <p><br></p> <p>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?</p> <p><br></p> <p>...

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