Future of Policing

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Texas’s response to school shootings was as predictable as it was doomed to produce only more violence in schools — violence by cops.
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Washington, D.C., offers a rare opportunity to study how police departments throughout the country might, and in fact must, do more with less. Since reaching a dramatic peak in 2023, violent and property crime in the District has fallen sharply — even as the police force shrank to its smallest size in half a century.

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The NYPD says its deployment zones are driving sharp crime declines. A closer look at the numbers raises harder questions about what’s actually behind the drop.
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Last week, I blogged in support of reviving private criminal prosecutions. The state’s monopoly on bringing criminal charges arose late historically and prosecutors have often failed to show victims the responsiveness they deserve. My piece quickly met with pushback, especially from libertarians concerned about expanding the criminal legal system’s overreach and coercion usin...

ICE could never have created a large-scale deportation machine if it hadn’t enjoyed the voluntary assistance of local law enforcement.
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