Crime - Quillette (Page 4)

Are We in the Midst of a Transgender Murder Epidemic?

The truth is there is no epidemic of transgender murders. The recorded transgender murder rate is 1/3 or less of the overall murder rate for all American citizens and legal residents.

Wilfred Reilly

7 Dec 2019 · 7 min read

Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals

The explosion happened three blocks away, but the sound had become so familiar that I went back to sleep without even getting out of bed to check on my twins.

Henrik Jönsson

15 Nov 2019 · 6 min read

Male-Bodied Rapists Are Being Imprisoned With Women. Why Do so Few People Care?

It appears that common sense is forgotten once the words “gender identity” are invoked.

April Halley

12 Oct 2019 · 15 min read

Buying Fentanyl on the Streets of San Francisco—An Interview with Heather Mac Donald

Cities are one of the great accomplishments of human civilization.

Michael Shellenberger

8 Oct 2019 · 7 min read

NARRATED: How Due Process Fell Victim to Good Intentions

Greg Ellis reads How Due Process Fell Victim to Good Intentions: A Veteran Court Reporter Looks Back, Christie Blatchford’s essay about how due process has been eroded by the insistence that we should believe victims. It was published in Quillette on July 14, 2019.

Quillette

4 Sep 2019 · 1 min read

Why I Don’t Live in Fear of White Supremacists

If we start to restrict civil liberties, spread panic and exaggerate the amount of hate and violence in our societies, we will give terrorists what they want: greater control over our political narratives and personal psychology.

Zaid Jilani

30 Aug 2019 · 7 min read

The Deadly Boredom of ‘A Meaningless Life’

Before a youth makes the decision to murder, before the gun is stashed in his backpack, before his state of mental health is so deteriorated that he commits the unthinkable, what has happened to him?

Terry Newman

7 Aug 2019 · 9 min read

Don't Blame Police Racism for America's Violence Epidemic

Given the horrifying history of racism in the United States, this was never a far-fetched thesis.

Zaid Jilani

27 Jul 2019 · 11 min read

The Many Lies of Carl Beech

Beech claimed he had been tied up and had his bones broken by Generals and Field Marshals

Matthew Scott

25 Jul 2019 · 16 min read

How the Left Turned Words Into 'Violence,' and Violence Into 'Justice'

The idea that one’s disagreement with Ngo’s point of view disqualifies him from the physical protection granted to other ordinary citizens proved to be quite common in the aftermath of Ngo’s beating.

James Lindsay

20 Jul 2019 · 11 min read

Is Surging Hate Crime in the UK Overcooked?

Hate crime now appears as a political crime, an outrage against social justice. There is a good case for saying that actual incidents of genuine hate crime should be seen in this way.

Ben Cobley

18 Jul 2019 · 12 min read

How Due Process Fell Victim to Good Intentions: A Veteran Court Reporter Looks Back

The Tarrant manifesto is banned in New Zealand. This is ridiculous, I think. How can you know a thing if you’re not allowed to name it?

Christie Blatchford

14 Jul 2019 · 15 min read

Democrats Control America’s Most Dangerous Cities. So Why Do They Keep Passing the Buck on Gun Crime?

Progressives, who have long branded themselves as forward-looking policy innovators challenging the hidebound dogmas of conservatism, would benefit from challenging their own fixation on history’s rearview mirror.

Jamil Jivani

9 Jul 2019 · 8 min read

The Hate-Crime Epidemic That Never Was: A Seattle Case Study

An examination of the Seattle data indicates that fewer than 40 actual criminal cases resulting from real, serious hate incidents were successfully prosecuted between 2012 and 2017.

Wilfred Reilly

7 Jul 2019 · 6 min read

Hate Crime Hoaxes are More Common than You Think

Victimhood culture gives rise to hate crime hoaxes, then, because it makes them easier to pull off for the same reasons it makes them more lucrative.

Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning

22 Feb 2019 · 7 min read