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Ross Barkan
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Ross Barkan's personal blog at rossbarkan.substack.com covers politics and culture. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Why Is the NYPD So Powerful?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for its commentary on policing and crime. One commenter quotes it on New York arrest and summons data during the 2015 police slowdown, as support for their own point.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Is the NYPD So Powerful?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-04
What Hacker News says?
Recent New York data during a slowdown paints a different picture: "De Blasio, in this sense, is a remarkably unimaginative politician, like Andrew Cuomo. Police did stop doing their jobs, momentarily, after the murders of Liu and Ramos, in protest of de Blasio’s allegedly anti-police gestures. Arrests and summonses plummeted in early 2015. This, in labor and political parlance, is called a slowdown. The truth about…
Comment linking /p/why-is-the-nypd-so-powerful
on “How much do we need the police?”Submitted Why Is the NYPD So Powerful? as a story · 104 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cashless Society as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pretending Problems Don't Exist Won't Make Them Disappear as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with Media as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Fine to Be a Snob as a story · 1 points
HN discussion