Criminal Justice

^{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 ›

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 ›

^{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 ›

justice lawyer / judge gavel working with legal documents in a court room

^{Debra J. Saunders
June 13, 2021
Citizen Leadership}

Gov. Newsom, Kevin Cooper Is Guilty

_{Debra J. Saunders
June 13, 2021
Citizen Leadership}

Kevin Cooper used to tell reporters that he wanted DNA testing, which didn’t exist when he went to trial, to prove that he was not guilty of the four 1983 murders that put him on California’s death row. If the tests implicated him, he said, he would drop his appeals. 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 ›

Manhattan 2019. Behind the police with gun belt

^{Christopher Rufo
December 26, 2019
Economics}

Abolish the Police?

_{Christopher Rufo
December 26, 2019
Economics}

^{Discovery Institute
July 5, 2013
Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design}

Darwin Day In America

_{Discovery Institute
July 5, 2013
Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design}

Darwin Day in America tells the disturbing story of scientific expertise run amuck, exposing how an ideological interpretation of Darwinian biology and reductionist science have been used to degrade American culture over the past century through their impact on criminal justice, welfare, business, education, and bioethics.

^{Philip Gold
December 12, 2001
Foreign Policy}

Tribunals are American Way

_{Philip Gold
December 12, 2001
Foreign Policy}

This war is full of surprises. And among the strangest so far has been the reaction to President Bush’s decision to establish military tribunals to try certain terrorist suspects. To our knowledge, none have so far been held. Procedures are still being worked out by a Defense Department that regards the assignment with considerably less than total enthusiasm. Only suspects Read More ›