How New Orleans Is Winning a War Against Murder
November 4th, 2014
This post originally appeared on Stephen Goldsmith’s Better Faster Cheaper blog on Governing.com. In 2010, New Orleans was suffering […
Browsing the “Crime” Category
Can Black Conservatives Support Stop-and-Frisk?
March 25th, 2014
Stop-and-frisk is perhaps one of the most controversial issues in American policing today. The fundamental basis for the controversy regarding […
Stop-and-Frisk: How Government Creates Problems, Then Makes Them Worse
August 23rd, 2013
Two recent law-enforcement decisions illustrate yet again that when government sets out to solve a problem it created, things get […
D.C. to consider decriminalizing Pot
July 15th, 2013
Carrying pot in the nation’s capitol may soon not be a crime. The Washington, D.C., City Council announced on Wednesday that it […
The LAPD Remade
March 8th, 2013
How William Bratton’s police force drove crime down—and won over Los Angeles’s minorities It started as a routine 911 call. […
Controlling Gun Control
January 7th, 2013
The shocking massacre that transpired last Friday in Newtown, CT represents a seminal moment in America’s history. Society was not […
Guns are not the problem
January 4th, 2013
From Israel Hayom (Israel), Princella D. Smith, a freelance contributor to Israel Hayom and a graduate student at the Lauder […
Pot’litics: Should America End its Marijuana War?
October 15th, 2012
The war on drugs, a phrase coined in the 1980’s, has resulted in approximately half of America’s adult and adolescent […
Cannabis Sativa: Why it’s Time to Decriminalize
October 11th, 2012
It’s Monday morning. The whistle is blowing. And nearly 800,000 workers are lining up to punch their timecards. This isn’t […
Will pot laws go up in smoke?
October 1st, 2012
Steve Chapman the writer and columnist for the Chicago Tribune writes about the politics of marijuana. Judging from recent history, […
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