Many residents of high-crime neighborhoods take a more nuanced position on the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices than the politicians and advocates who purport to represent them. Residents of high-crime neighborhoods often have unrealistic expectations of the police’s ability to distinguish innocents from criminals without their assistance, says Temple criminologist Jerry Ratcliffe.

Jamira Burley has made combating youth violence her mission and has been tapped by Mayor Nutter to head the city’s Youth Commission. "I never thought I could rise above my circumstances," the Temple 2012 graduate said last week. "No matter how many times I tell my story, I can’t end youth violence alone." Nutter, too, has emphasized the importance of a community approach. 

One would expect auto-insurance companies to see a windfall from spikes in gasoline prices, as higher costs should cause a decrease in miles driven, leading to fewer personal injury and physical damage claims. But as Temple Fox School of Business Professor Michael R. Powers writes, a 10 percent increase in the price of gas leads to less than a 1 percent decrease in the amount of gas consumed.

With a $16 billion IPO behind it and its billionth user on the horizon, Facebook has made it hard to imagine a world without it. But Steven L. Johnson, who teaches social media innovation at Temple's Fox School of Business, says it's doomed to fail. The once-clean interface is cluttered; better applications are taking off even faster than it did; and Facebook’s fundamentally flawed model of social interaction is based on the idea that everyone has a single social identity.