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Crime and Good Conversations

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Steward Beckham
Aug 14, 2025
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Late night bus ride in Bushwick, New York. Photo by jurien huggins on Unsplash

Good conversations matter. Without them, we loop endlessly around the same urgent issues: topics packed with nuance, human stakes, and lived consequences. Growing up in a hollowed-out major American city with a large minority population, I’ve seen how the conversation around crime often spins in that same tired circle.

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