Category: Law/Justice

What Crime Surge?

LA Progressive Sacramento News & Review, one of the last supposedly “lefty” publications in the region just published an article (A winter of worry: Sacramento’s violent crime rate in January puts a chill on the community) decrying a recent “crime surge”–a constant worry among conservatives. Among other things, […]

Taking on Progressive Prosecutors

The main problem I see with these critics is that much of their objection to “progressive prosecutors” seems rooted in their disdain for the non-prosecution of “quality of life” offenses, i.e. things that conflict with bourgeois aesthetics, lifestyle, or class interests. That may not be the whole story […]

How Progressives Ruined San Francisco: Michael Shellenberger

The author of the new book “San Fransicko,” says the homelessness crisis is an addiction and mental health crisis enabled by policies that permit open-air drug scenes on public property and prevent police from enforcing laws Full text and links: https://reason.com/video/2022/01/19/h… —————— Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_… […]

Worse Than Theranos

By Ankush Khardori The Week n early December, while Elizabeth Holmes was testifying in her own defense in the most heavily covered white-collar criminal trial in recent memory, an entirely different criminal proceeding involving the health-care industry was taking place across the country. Thomas Whitten, a 71-year-old former […]

Why Black & Latino Democrats Are Standing Up To White Progressives On Crime, Drugs, & Homelessness

This article is interesting because it foreshadows what mainstream political debate is going to look like in the future, at least in heavily populated areas. Today’s moderates are tomorrow’s conservatives. Today’s far-left are tomorrow’s liberals. Over time, today’s conservatives (e.g. FOX fans) are going to be increasingly small […]

Joleen Nez: A Death in Custody

By Cecelia Nowell, The Nation How racism, negligence, and a politically connected medical provider turned homelessness into a capital crime. n April 16, 2020, Officer Preston Panana walked up to Joleen Nez at the corner of Texas Street and Zuni Avenue in Albuquerque. Nez was living in a […]