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
· 10 min read
Crime
A collection of 85 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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.”
Craig Trainor
· 12 min read
Fabricated Innocence
The self-exoneration and re-incrimination of Jens Soering.
Andrew Hammel
· 42 min read
Convictions and Doubts: The Case of Cardinal Pell
Several factors cast doubt on the accuracy and/or veracity of the complainant’s account.
RJ Smith
· 14 min read
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 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
· 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
· 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
· 7 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
· 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
· 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
· 11 min read