Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on today's show is Tom Hogan. Tom is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. Joining me on today's show is

Tom Hogan. Tom is a lawyer who served in a variety of different roles, including as a federal

prosecutor, the elected district attorney of Chester County in Pennsylvania, and he's a partner

or he served as a partner doing criminal defense work at major law firms.

He's a graduate of criminology graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania,

and he's written now 10 pieces for City Journal about crime law enforcement and the progressive prosecutor movement.

This will be his first time on 10 blocks.

So Tom, thanks very much for joining

us and thanks for these excellent pieces you've been writing for City Journal.

Pleasure to be on, Brian, and pleasure to work with the staff at City Journal. They're great.

You know, I'd like to start with one of your most recent pieces. This is the one you co-authored

with John McDonald, who's a professor

of criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. This piece talks about the three laws

of crime concentration. Roughly, these hold that crime is concentrated among a small group of,

you know, persistent offenders. It's in a select few

neighborhoods or even blocks. And at certain periods of time, you know, whether in the night or

wee hours of the morning, it's become fashionable on the central left to cite supposed experts

as a means to foreclose debate about

contentious topics, but we tend not to hear from the New York Times about the expert consensus on

crime. So what are these three laws of crime concentration, if you could speak a bit about

each one, and how solid is the empirical evidence that backs them up?

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