I have been really busy lately and didn’t have time to write for the blog, but readers might be interested in my conversation with Glenn Loury, who kindly invited me to talk about police violence on his podcast after he…
Tag: criminal justice system
I don’t have time to write another post for the blog at the moment, though I have several of them in the works, but I wanted to let you know about a few things I published elsewhere. I already mentioned…
I wrote a post a few months ago that generated a lot of controversy and was heavily criticized. I wrote it after the officer who killed Philando Castile was acquitted, which prompted everyone to lament the so-called epidemic of unarmed…
The Wall Street Journal published a long piece arguing that rural America has become the new inner city. The article doesn’t really talk about politics, but the political implications, especially with respect to the rise of Trump, are pretty obvious.…
As you know, the cop who shot to death Philando Castile last summer was acquitted, which generated a lot of outrage. I don’t know enough about the detail of the death of Philando Castile to know whether the verdict in…
I argued in another post that, despite what most American liberals believe, racism can only explain a relatively small part of the white/black gap in incarceration rates. (If you haven’t read it yet, you should probably do so before you read…
According to the Pew Research Center, relative to white men, black men are disproportionately imprisoned by a factor of almost 6.5. In my experience, American liberals believe that racism in the criminal justice system explains the bulk of that disparity or,…