All Posts Tagged With: "crime"
The Paradox of the Illiberal Cities
Alexander Moseley is currently between university appointments and working on two academic books and a novel. Cities have often been the bastions of enlightened living that abolish the prejudices which taint rural life. But while urban residents may be free from the invasive gossip and restrictive social codes of conduct that characterize small towns and [...]
1Nov2001 | Alex Moseley | 0 comments | ContinuedLiberty, Property, and Crime
No society can long exist in a climate of rampant crime, especially if it is properly defined as any act that violates the life, liberty, or property of another. and when the term “crime” is used, that is generally what people mean. Of course many people, perhaps most, would also include victimless crimes such as [...]
1Nov2001 | James Peron | 2 comments | ContinuedRacial Profiling
Former President Clinton called for a national crackdown on racial profiling and ordered federal law-enforcement authorities to begin an investigation. While running for president Al Gore promised the NAACP that if elected, eliminating racial profiling by the nation’s police departments would be a top priority.
1Apr2001 | Walter E. Williams | 29 comments | ContinuedThe Uplifters Try It Again
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) was the most influential newspaperman of his era and a prolific author of iconoclastic books and essays. This is reprinted from The Evening Sun of Baltimore, November 30, 1925. Copyright 1925 by The Evening Sun. Republication without credit not permitted. I The eminent Nation announces with relish “the organization of a national [...]
1Oct2000 | H. L. Mencken | 1 comment | ContinuedDo We Really Want More Policemen?
Curt Oldfield of Bonner County, Idaho, has perhaps the most unusually decorated car in the nation. It’s a 1986 Oldsmobile covered with 200 license plates carefully shaped and riveted to the hood, fenders, and doors. It’s driven mostly in parades and auto shows, but one day his daughter, lacking transportation, took it downtown. And a [...]
1Jul2000 | James L. Payne | 3 comments | ContinuedTurbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy
It’s always tricky for a reviewer to judge a book written by a classmate. That’s the case here. Edward Luttwak is a good writer, but has written a book that, while purporting to be about economics, is actually the stuff of worn sociology and tired psychology. As the title, Turbo-Capitalism, indicates, Luttwak is aware of [...]
1May2000 | David L. Littmann | 0 comments | ContinuedJust Dial 911? The Myth of Police Protection
Richard Stevens is a lawyer in Washington, D.C., and author of Dial 911 and Die (Mazel Freedom Press, 1999). Underlying all “gun control” ideology is this one belief.” “Private citizens don’t need firearms because the police will protect them from crime.” That belief is both false and dangerous for two reasons. First, the police cannot [...]
1Apr2000 | Richard W. Stevens | 38 comments | ContinuedWhy Crime Declines
Bruce Benson is De Voe Moore Distinguished Research Professor in the department of economics at Florida State University and author of To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice (New York University Press, 1998). Crime in America has fallen since 1991. In that year, the reported crime rate compiled in the FBI’s Uniform [...]
1Jan2000 | Bruce L. Benson | 5 comments | ContinuedSmuggled Cigarettes, Unteachable Politicians
John Attarian is an adjunct scholar with the Midland, Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and a nonsmoker. “Only one thing in history is certain: that mankind is unteachable,” Winston Churchill told his dinner guests one night in January 1941.[1] He was discussing international relations, but it goes for politicians’ economic blunders, too. Indeed, Churchill’s [...]
1Sep1998 | John Attarian | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Twenty-First Century City
Books by politicians. Seldom worth reading and rarely even worthy of the appellation “book,” they are usually tedious pastiches of campaign blather, clichés, flattering photos, and anything else designed to help enhance election prospects. Don’t waste your time. But every now and then a politician writes a book that is not a waste of time, [...]
1Jul1998 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedDrawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber
John Attarian is a freelance writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and an adjunct scholar with the Midland, Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy. David Gelernter was a busy associate professor of computer science at Yale University, an artistic man who had entered software research because he wanted a trade. Then, going through his mail on [...]
1Jul1998 | John Attarian | 0 comments | ContinuedMedicine for the Sick
Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. The Drug War: seldom has so much harm been done to so many for so little purpose. Among the most tragic victims [...]
1Oct1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters: Libertarians and Crime
Libertarians and Crime In his article “The Real Enemy of Liberty” (December 1994), Robert James Bidinotto laments that crime “curiously . . . has gotten scant attention from most proponents of the free market system.” Bidinotto goes on to say that “Free marketeers typically posit government per se as the enemy of individual rights and [...]
1Apr1997 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedDying for a Pizza
Mr. Reiland is associate professor of economics at Robert Morris College in Pittsburgh. It started as more than 50 people were being killed in Los Angeles by rioters who didn’t agree with the verdict in the Rodney King case. That same night, while the rest of us were watching the mayhem on television, Carl Truss [...]
1Mar1997 | Ralph R. Reiland | 1 comment | ContinuedCause and Effect: Crime and Poverty
Professor Clites teaches at Tusculum College in Tennessee. It is often asserted that poverty causes crime. I suggest that crime causes poverty. Obviously crime victims are made worse off when they are burglarized or mugged. But there are many other people who are made worse off indirectly by crime. A high crime rate will drive [...]
1Mar1997 | Roger M. Clites | 5 comments | ContinuedLaw Enforcement by Deceit?: Entrapment and Due Process
Ms. Johnson is a freelance journalist living in Tampa, Florida. She writes a monthly column dealing with personal sovereignty issues for Impact Press, a regional magazine distributed in the southeastern United States. Her work also appears regularly in The Hernando Today. According to an April 1993 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, “Law enforcement officers often employ [...]
1Nov1996 | Jennifer Johnson | 24 comments | ContinuedPrivate Prejudice, Private Remedy
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). There may be no more politically contentious issue than race. The federal government has created a vast racial spoils system that often [...]
1Jul1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued-
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