Charged with a duty to apprehend offenders, police officers must be prepared to use force. Armed confrontations in these circumstances are inevitable.
Barry Latzer
Debates should continue about root causes, but attacking incarceration is not the right way forward.
Compared to Europe, Canada and Australia the honest answer is “yes—but with good reason.”
Progressives have decided that district attorneys are responsible for mass incarceration, which is wrong on a number of counts.
The so-called "First Step Act" offers some worthy reforms, but nothing that would satisfy progressive fantasies.
Sharkey acknowledges that the decline in crime happened because of mass incarceration and a ramped up criminal justice system.
John F. Pfaff’s Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration is probably the best book on so-called mass incarceration to date.
Barry Latzer is professor emeritus at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. His latest book is The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America (Encounter, 2016). His history of violent crime pre-1940, The Roots of Violent Crime in America: From the Gilded Age through the Great Depression, will be published in 2021 by Louisiana State University Press.