Crime - Quillette (Page 2)

Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache: Quebec’s Too-Perfect Police Officer

Detective stories are so popular in our culture that those of us lacking experience of the real life variety sometimes have difficulty telling fact and fiction apart

John Allore

4 Oct 2021 · 9 min read

Charles Murray's 'Facing Reality'—A Review

Facing Reality attempts to force into view data that many Americans would rather not acknowledge.

Razib Khan

29 Jul 2021 · 12 min read

Are Activists Protecting Asians from Hate—or Protecting Their Narrative of White Supremacy from Criticism?

But often it seems that means and end have become reversed, and that these crimes now serve as a prop in the larger ideological campaign against our supposedly white-supremacy-saturated culture—a campaign that Asians themselves are now being pressured to join.

Hai Di Nguyen

8 Jun 2021 · 11 min read

When Will Activists (and the Media) Get Honest About Police Shootings?

Minutes before Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three counts of murder and manslaughter, Ma’Khia Bryant, a black teenage girl in Columbus, Ohio, was shot dead by police. Almost immediately, enraged protestors gathered outside police headquarters. “Say Her Name!” they chanted. The New York Times reported that the girl’

Arthur Jeon

30 Apr 2021 · 14 min read

The Ugly History of Rape Panics

As sexual violence was reaching historic lows, the narrative was demanding the opposite. The definition of sexual violence began to be broadened, and so the numbers grew.

Jerry Barnett

22 Apr 2021 · 11 min read

Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review

Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter.

Jonathan Salem-Wiseman

18 Apr 2021 · 8 min read

Black Lives Matter, So Refund the Police

It is precisely because black lives matter that we must recognize that defunding the police has only hurt those it was intended to help.

Andrew Sansone

12 Apr 2021 · 8 min read

'Allen v. Farrow': Intellectually Dishonest Propaganda Meets Emotional Blackmail

There is no doubt that part of the goal of Allen v. Farrow was to finish off both Allen’s career and his legacy by presenting a definitive guilty verdict in the court of public opinion.

Cathy Young

28 Mar 2021 · 26 min read

Race and False Hate Crime Narratives

Press reports refer to activists condemning “anti-Asian racism” and fighting anti-Asian “hate.”

Heather Mac Donald

25 Mar 2021 · 12 min read

Leaving Portland

Leaving was a relief but also a loss. There’s plenty to love about Portland.

Michael J. Totten

14 Mar 2021 · 22 min read

Growing Up Without a Father-Figure Can Make Boys Less Violent

While there is likely a modest link between violent crime and single parenting, Faust and Manning are wrong about the benefits of a father-figure.

Robert Cherry

19 Feb 2021 · 7 min read

Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America

We have to make ourselves equal. No one can do it for us.

Glenn C. Loury

10 Feb 2021 · 20 min read

Sexual Assault and the Taboo of Sound Advice

Yes, your car might be stolen even if you lock it and take the keys, but does that mean that no one should remind us to lock our cars and take our keys?

Steve Salerno

7 Feb 2021 · 6 min read

Stop Sensationalizing the Threat of Right-Wing Political Violence

Terrorism is ultimately a weapon of the weak. By engaging in threat inflation, we expand the power and prestige of terrorists by allowing them to be more influential than they otherwise might be.

Zaid Jilani

28 Jan 2021 · 7 min read

Did the BLM Protests Against the Police Lead to the 2020 Spike in Homicides?

One of the most robust findings in social science is that reductions in effective policing correlate with increases in crime.

Wilfred Reilly

27 Jan 2021 · 9 min read