The racial disparities, the arbitrary outcomes, the endless waiting and the risk of executing the innocent persist.
— Read on www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/22/death-penalty-50th-gregg-georgia-executions
Tag: Crime
How California Effectively Legalized an Open-Air Sex Market
Four years after passage of a disastrous 2022 law, cops roll past as prostitutes walk the Figueroa corridor.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/figueroa-california-prostitution-sex-trafficking
How Two California Cities Are Reducing Street Homelessness
Declines in San Francisco and San Jose offer lessons for other cities grappling with encampments and public disorder.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/san-francisco-san-jose-homeless-encampments
L.A. Metro Is a Crime-Ridden Hellscape
The transit system’s refusal to enforce fares has turned the trains over to criminals.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/la-metro-crime-fare-enforcement
Video, Audio: Heather Mac Donald | Crime Stats Don’t Lie. Why Are We Ignoring Them? | Ep. 53 – Independent Institute
Scott welcomes Heather Mac Donald, one of the country’s most important voices who exposes the truth and the data behind it. Heather is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor of City Journal. Her latest book is When Race Trumps Merit. In it she explains what she calls the foolish pursuit of undermining meritocracy in favor of equal outcome. They discuss critical social issues including crime, media bias, and cultural shifts, including the feminization of American society and an anti-male narrative that MacDonald sees as harmful to families and societal success.
— Read on www.independent.org/multimedia/2025/09/04/heather-mac-donald-crime-stats-dont-lie-why-are-we-ignoring-them-ep-53/
Bail Studies: The Six Most Significant Surety Bail Studies Ever Conducted – AIA Bail Bond Surety
This is a 6 part series. The link below is to the introduction.
Bail Studies: The Six Most Significant Surety Bail Studies Ever Conducted: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth.
— Read on www.aiasurety.com/bail/bail-studies/
Don’t Black Lives Matter? Confronting the Problem of Disproportionate Black Victimization, 53 Fordham Urb. L.J. 449 (2025).
Rutherford v. US: Supreme Court Suggests Any Compassion For Criminal Defendants Is Too Much | Balls and Strikes
Congress gave judges the power to shorten a prison term if “extraordinary and compelling reasons” warrant relief. But the Republican justices on the Supreme Court won’t let judges use it.
— Read on ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supreme-court-hates-compassionate-release/
Washington, D.C.’s crime decline and its lessons for American policing – Niskanen Center
Washington, D.C., offers a rare opportunity to study how police departments throughout the country might, and in fact must, do more with less. Since reaching a dramatic peak in 2023, violent and property crime in the District has fallen sharply — even as the police force shrank to its smallest size in half a century.
— Read on www.niskanencenter.org/washington-dc-crime-decline-and-its-lessons-for-american-policing/
Vital City | Did NYPD’s Zone Strategy Cause the Crime Drop?
The NYPD says its deployment zones are driving sharp crime declines. A closer look at the numbers raises harder questions about what’s actually behind the drop.
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/nypd-zone-strategy-crime-drop-analysis/
Future of Policing 