Liberty
Democrats Misuse Statistics to Hide Violent Crime
John Lott writes for the New York Post about Democrats’ misuse of crime statistics. “Make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz warned in…
Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. criminal justice data
Liberty
Looking Beyond the Spin on Crime
John Lott writes for National Review Online about Americans’ concerns involving crime. A Gallup survey last November showed that 92 percent of Republicans and even 58 percent of Democrats believed…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Intensive Community Policing Can Save the Lives of Black Children
Street violence has claimed the lives of far too many innocent Black children, and the current spike in violent crime makes the problem worse. Deploying more police officers to act…
Law & Public Safety
A halt in the ‘great crime decline’
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon reports a disappointing development in national crime statistics. The two-decade-long crime decline appears to have conclusively plateaued, a new report released Monday…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
North Carolina: A quiet leader in criminal justice reform
One of the many things I like about living in North Carolina is the extent to which North Carolinians live up to the state motto: “Esse Quam Videri” (“To Be…
Liberty
Walter Williams challenges racism claims
Walter Williams writes at the Daily Wire about claims of right-of-center racism. According to leftist rhetoric, whites pose a severe, if not mortal, threat to blacks. Mac Donald says that…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Exposing Criminal Justice Reform Myths
Criminal justice contrarian John Pfaff recently published an article in which he explodes five “myths about prisons.” According to Pfaff, “Much of the debate about criminal justice is built on…
Liberty
Fewer people behind bars
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon reports the latest news about incarceration in the United States. The share of the adult population in prison has fallen to its…
Liberty
Trump and criminal justice reform
Editors at the Washington Examiner explain why they believe President Trump is the right person to lead reform of the criminal justice system. Momentum is building within the conservative movement…
Liberty
Prison population shrinking
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon details the latest data linked to Americans in prison. State and federal prison populations dropped in 2016, the Bureau of Justice Statistics…
Elections & Public Integrity
Forget about the Russians — What about the FBI meddling in elections?
That’s the question editors at Investor’s Business Daily are asking in light of the latest news emanating from the Mueller investigation. For 18 months, the FBI has been fixated on…
Liberty
New Federal Report Shows “Arrest Related Deaths” Are Comparatively Rare in North Carolina
FiveThirtyEight reports that: Last year, [Bureau of Justice Statistics] researchers found that the agency’s existing methods of counting arrest-related deaths — basically, asking police departments to report totals — were probably…