Crime - Quillette (Page 3)

For Five Months, BLM Protestors Trashed America's Cities. After the Election, Things May Only Get Worse

Common themes in the emerging constellation of radical groups include apocalyptic beliefs, a “utopian” political agenda, martyr narratives, and a cell-based organizational structure.

Mike Gonzalez

3 Nov 2020 · 9 min read

L.A.'s Failed Homeless Policies Turned My Home Into a Prison

I support helping the homeless—but with meaningful measures that have been proven to work, as opposed to policy that’s heavy on virtue signaling and ultimately short on humanitarian substance.

Amy Alkon

23 Sep 2020 · 18 min read

Exploiting a Woman’s Deadly Fall to Smear Toronto's Police

But instead, progressives such as Singh are far more interested in polluting Twitter with lazy lies and protest applause lines that erase any distinction between policing methods.

Jonathan Kay

30 Aug 2020 · 9 min read

Neglecting At-Risk Children in the Name of Cultural Sensitivity

She has more than 20 years of experience working with families and children in true crisis, including with issues ranging from rape, to drug addiction, to terminal illness

Hal Niedzviecki

26 Aug 2020 · 8 min read

PODCAST 106: Journalist and Documentary Maker Christopher Rufo on the Summer of Anarchy in Seattle and Portland

Christopher Rufo, Director of the Center on Wealth & Poverty at Discovery Institute, talks to Jonathan Kay about the ideology fuelling the violent protests in Seattle and Portland.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

25 Aug 2020 · 1 min read

Getting Rid of Bar Exams Won't Help Anyone

Moreover, proponents of lowering the bar aren’t always acting on social-justice motives.

Joshua Hunter

8 Aug 2020 · 6 min read

Policing in the Anomie Era

Over the last 20 years there has been a massive increase in awareness of Indigenous issues in Canada.

Mike Wilson

30 Jun 2020 · 10 min read

Racist Police Violence Reconsidered

Blacks are still somewhat more likely than whites to suffer physical and verbal abuse from the cops even when the behavior of the suspect is taken into account. Findings like these contribute to a general sense that cops treat black people as an enemy.

John McWhorter

11 Jun 2020 · 9 min read

Condemn this Violence without Equivocation

The protests are not merely the legitimate exercise of constitutional rights to assemble and to petition our government—they are essential for sustaining the moral health of our democracy.

Glenn C. Loury

3 Jun 2020 · 4 min read

Pandemics and Pandemonium

Cities in which inequality has been allowed to deepen for a generation now need to find new strategies that provide hope and fairer policies to their poorer residents. The alternative is watching them burn when minority and working class resentment inevitably erupts.

Joel Kotkin

2 Jun 2020 · 12 min read

America's Black Communities Are Suffering. Violent Protests Will Make the Suffering Worse

All in all, the evidence suggests that violent protests and rioting empower right-wing political forces, provide an opportunity for gangs to enrich themselves and exploit destabilized local populations, impoverish property owners, and harm long-term economic fortunes.

Zaid Jilani

30 May 2020 · 9 min read

Return to ‘The Unheavenly City’

“This book will probably strike many readers as the work of an ill-tempered and mean-spirited fellow,” Banfield explained, “but facts are facts, however, unpleasant, and they have to be faced unblinkingly by anyone who really wants to improve matters in the cities.”