Deborah and Rodrick Wallace - Interview with Dr. Glenn Corbett, Fall 2018 (RaCERS, John Jay College)

Deborah and Rodrick Wallace discuss their early work documenting the impacts of fire service cuts in New York City, and their continued work persuasively linking provision of basic services with quality of life and health for residents of often-distressed communities. The Wallaces are interviewed in Fall 2018 by Assoc. Prof. Glenn Corbett of the Department of Security, Fire, and Emergency Management.

Wallace and Wallace have published numerous peer-reviewed, scholarly articles and are well-known for their work on fire service policy, public health, housing, and artificial intelligence. Their most recent books include their "Right to Work Laws and the Crumbling of American Public Health" published in 2018, and Rodrick Wallace’s "Carl von Clausewitz, the Fog-of-War, and the AI Revolution: The Real World is not a Game Of Go" published by Springer in 2018. Their book, "A Plague on Your Houses: How New York was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled" was published in 2001. Their seminal work, "Studies on the collapse of fire service in New York City, 1972-1976: The Impact of Pseudoscience in Public Policy (1977)" remains the most extensive treatment of fire service effectiveness and its relationship to deployment policy. The Wallace’s papers from their work on fire service cuts in New York City are held in John Jay College’s special library collections.

Find out more about the Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies (RaCERS) at John Jay College here: https://christianregenhardcenter.org/