McManus: America Refuses to Protect its Citizens from Violent Crime

Which brings up the other problem: America’s growing refusal to protect its citizens from violence. In its cities, that’s what the bail-reform/defund-the-police movement is all about — shielding criminals from the consequences of their actions. But there also is the matter of violently expressed mental illness and its corollary, the clearly disturbed and deteriorating individual … Read more

Sklansky: Lenient Criminal Justice Policies Have Nothing to Do With the Jump in Violent Crime

  It’s not clear exactly why homicides have spiked in the United States during the pandemic. The same thing hasn’t happened in the United Kingdom or elsewhere in Europe, and there are cities in the United States that have bucked the trend as well. Some of the nationwide increase in killings over the past 18 … Read more