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/
Tag: Criminal Justice System
Recruitment and Retention – Challenges for Pennsylvania Police, Corrections, and Prosecutors
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/
What Works in American Policing: A Strategy-by-Strategy Assessment – R Street Institute
This seven-part series examines major policing strategies through a research-grounded lens, assessing each strategy against multiple criteria:
Credible empirical support
Measurable outcomes
Operational realism (given current staffing constraints)
Constitutional boundaries
Fiscal accountability
Rather than treating policing approaches as interchangeable catchphrases, this series evaluates what the literature actually says about each strategy’s effectiveness and what it means for agencies trying to do more with less while maintaining public trust.— Read on www.rstreet.org/commentary/what-works-in-american-policing-a-strategy-by-strategy-assessment/
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/
New York’s new sanctuary state laws are a recipe for chaos
Last week, New York state Democrats did what they do best: They jammed what will ultimately prove to be unpopular and counterproductive restrictions on immigration enforcement into the state budget.
— Read on nypost.com/2026/05/30/opinion/new-yorks-new-sanctuary-state-laws-are-a-recipe-for-chaos/
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/
Why Are Crime Victims the Only People We Force to Trust the State? | Cato at Liberty Blog
Last week, I blogged in support of reviving private criminal prosecutions. The state’s monopoly on bringing criminal charges arose late historically and prosecutors have often failed to show victims the responsiveness they deserve. My piece quickly met with pushback, especially from libertarians concerned about expanding the criminal legal system’s overreach and coercion using the guise of victims’ rights. I write again to offer a clarification, a qualification, and a challenge.
— Read on www.cato.org/blog/victims-rights-private-prosecutors-responding-critics
Force Multipliers – Peter Mancina – Inquest
ICE could never have created a large-scale deportation machine if it hadn’t enjoyed the voluntary assistance of local law enforcement.
— Read on inquest.org/force-multipliers/
