Blue City Blues
David Hyde, Sandeep Kaushik
4.8from 172 ratings
- 72
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 172
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Blue City Blues
Blue City Blues is a podcast that's about what's broken, what's working and what comes next in America's blue cities. Hosts David Hyde and Sandeep Kaushik bring on a smart guest each episode to dig into urban politics, governance and culture. Clear-eyed conversation for people who care about blue cities and are skeptical of easy orthodoxies. Blue cities, we argue, represent an urban archipelago, which is shaping America's future. Subscribe to Blue City Blues now on Apple, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
- Publisher
- David Hyde, Sandeep Kaushik
- Category
- news · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 31 Oct 2024
- Latest episode
- 27 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
13 of 72 episodes have a transcript.
27 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Peter Moskos: Progressives Are Wrong about the Crime-Fighting Benefits of Good Policing
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Emma Pettit on the Homelessness Wars, Then and Now
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Benjamin Ryan on Cosmopolitan Elites’ Truth Problem
Inside a recent episode
Peter Moskos: Progressives Are Wrong about the Crime-Fighting Benefits of Good Policing
Published 27 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And a challenge in telling the story is how do you make things like the booking process or getting data to headquarters, how do you make that interesting? Because a lot of it was the police department trying to fight itself basically. But the fundamental, the shortest version of why crime went down is that the mission statement changed. And Bratton came on and said, I'm going to reduce violent crime 15% in year one. And everyone said, that's crazy. And he did so. And then he did so, you know, and then crime went down for the next 10 years at this level. Though he was only there for a year and a half, let's not forget. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Peter Moskos
- Emma Pettit
- Benjamin Ryan
- Margaret
- Jack Despain Zhou
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 120 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 52 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100
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- Quality
- 52
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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