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Homeless in San Francisco sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic

^{Marvin Olasky
June 17, 2022
Economics}

Do Homeless Lives Matter? Nine Fatal Minutes, Two Years Later

_{Marvin Olasky
June 17, 2022
Economics}

Today’s police are trained not to take chances, said one retired SFPD who was on the force for 30 years: “Officers are now primarily reactive; there is very little of the self-initiated activity that was once common, appropriate and encouraged. They have become risk-averse, disinclined to go hands-on with suspects. This is a factor in the bigger picture of what is going on in American policing.” Read More ›

^{Debra J. Saunders
January 30, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

Chaos and Crime Are Not Homeless

_{Debra J. Saunders
January 30, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

The pendulum has to swing back because the progressives’ paradise is paradise no more. Read More ›

^{Caitlin Cory
January 28, 2022
Economics}

Some Big Cities Are Coming To Their Senses On Law And Order

_{Caitlin Cory
January 28, 2022
Economics}

Law and order won big in Seattle last November when Ann Davison was elected city attorney over a 12-year incumbent and a radical, police abolitionist candidate. Other cities seem to also be waking up to the urban decay brought about by lax law enforcement, offering a glimmer of hope that our major cities might be returning to a more common-sense …

Close-up of a thief wearing balaclava breaking car window with crowbar. Car thief, car theft concept

^{Debra J. Saunders
December 5, 2021
Citizen Leadership}

Crime Reform Is Here. Do You Feel Safer?

_{Debra J. Saunders
December 5, 2021
Citizen Leadership}

Democrats are keeping their heads down. They spent years assuring the public that their so-called fixes would enhance public safety, that they were simply out to protect nonviolent offenders from overzealous law enforcement. Now I have to ask voters in blue cities and states: Do you feel safer? Read More ›

close up of addict woman and drug syringes

^{Caitlin Cory
October 20, 2021
Economics}

The Real Zombie Apocalypse

_{Caitlin Cory
October 20, 2021
Economics}

The likelihood of a zombie apocalypse like the ones portrayed in movies and TV shows is slim to say the least, but in the slums of some of America's largest cities, it seems the apocalypse is already upon us. Only it's not a virus or a curse turning people into walking shells of their former selves – it's drug addiction. Read More ›

^{Debra J. Saunders
October 20, 2021
Citizen Leadership}

Seattle, Another Dysfunctional City

_{Debra J. Saunders
October 20, 2021
Citizen Leadership}

“Familiar faces” is a term used for Seattle’s prolific offenders in the criminal justice system, writes Scott Lindsay in Crosscut, where he considers how two candidates for city attorney would deal with these repeat offenders. Read More ›

Two police officers arrest and handcuff homeless woman in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California.

^{Caitlin Cory
October 4, 2021
Economics}

How Leftist Prosecutors Contributed To 2020’s Massive Crime Spike

_{Caitlin Cory
October 4, 2021
Economics}

The number of homicides in the United States increased around 30 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported last week, along with a 5.6 percent increase in violent crime in the same period. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 6, 2021
Economics, Human Exceptionalism}

A Tale of Two Cities

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 6, 2021
Economics, Human Exceptionalism}

We hear much about individual “rights” these days, but very little about personal responsibilities. That’s untenable. Our freedom to exercise the former cannot long exist without accepting our duty to fulfill the latter. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
December 4, 2020
Economics}

The New Untouchables

_{Christopher Rufo
December 4, 2020
Economics}

The poor, in the logic of Seattle’s progressive elites, are thus forced to commit crimes — including violent crimes — to secure their very existence. Therefore, as society is the perpetrator of this inequality, the crimes of the poor must be forgiven. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
June 13, 2019
Economics}

An Addiction Crisis Disguised as a Housing Crisis

_{Christopher Rufo
June 13, 2019
Economics}

By latest count, some 109,089 men and women are sleeping on the streets of major cities in California, Oregon, and Washington. The homelessness crisis in these cities has generated headlines and speculation about “root causes.” Progressive political activists allege that tech companies have inflated housing costs and forced middle-class people onto the streets. Declaring that “no two people living on Skid Row . . . ended up there for the same reasons,” Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, for his part, blames a housing shortage, stagnant wages, cuts to mental health services, domestic and sexual abuse, shortcomings in criminal justice, and a lack of resources for veterans. These factors may all have played a role, but the most pervasive cause of West Coast homelessness is clear: heroin, fentanyl, and synthetic opioids. Read More ›