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  1. The Right Coast

    Crime Driving Chain Businesses Out of Cities | City Journal

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Starbucks has announced that it is closing many stores over crime concerns, often in cities led by progressive prosecutors. This development could be fodder for a joke about progressive hipsters…

  2. The Right Coast

    California crime, homelessness could hurt Democrats- CalMatters

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Crime and homelessness.Those are the two issues on which California Democrats are most vulnerable heading into the 2022 elections, according to a Tuesday poll from UC Berkeley s Institute of…

  3. The Right Coast

    The real danger on NYC subways is crime not COVID

    By Thomas A. Smith

    But your chances of being attacked in the subway system are, sadly, much higher.Our leaders continue to deny this fact. Even in the wake of a mass subway shooting, our…

  4. Simple Justice

    The Awkward Guns on New York City Streets

    By Scott Greenfield

    There are law-abiding gun owners. There are shooters. There is a constitutional amendment, for better or worse, that protects the fundamental right of a citizen to possess a gun. What’s…

  5. The Right Coast

    In Atlanta s Buckhead Neighborhood, Rising Crime Fuels Move to Secede – WSJ

    By Thomas A. Smith

    ATLANTA An increase in violent crime has spurred a movement in Atlanta s wealthiest and whitest neighborhood, Buckhead, to push harder to secede and create a new city with its…

  6. The Right Coast

    The unicorns of crime-wave California – The Spectator World

    By Thomas A. Smith

    A crime wave haunts blue-state America, and nowhere more so than in super-blue California. Los Angeles police chief Michel Moore is trying to assure residents and tourists that violent crime…

  7. Simple Justice

    The Failure of Denialism

    By Scott Greenfield

    One of the first things you learn in the trenches is that you do not tell a judge that something that’s obviously real isn’t real. Not only will you lose…

  8. From Briefs to Books

    Harlem Shuffle – by Colson Whitehead

    By Patty Shlonsky

    “Harlem Shuffle” is an atmospheric story about the thin line between criminality and honesty, the complexities of class and family and  survival. The story takes place between 1959 and 1964…

  9. Health Law Prof Blog

    The Spillover Effects of Oxycontin’s Introduction on Crime

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Yongbo Sim (Rutgers University), The Spillover Effects of Oxycontin's Introduction on Crime, SSRN (2021):Since the late 1990s, the U.S. has experienced a substantial rise in drug overdose and overdose deaths…

  10. The Right Coast

    The Left Wanted To Destroy The Police, And So Far They’ve Succeeded

    By Thomas A. Smith

    So why was the radical left so quiet when its legislative plan to destroy policing failed? Because their mission has already been almost completely accomplished. In virtually every major Democrat-run…