Crime

“Leave your keys at the front door for criminals.”

If this is what they do in a high-profile case, just imagine what goes on when they’ve got a poor defendant with a public defender who is juggling hundreds of cases.

Is it too much to ask that sports celebrities, who parrot lines like “systemic” police brutality against Blacks, ask for facts first?

What drug prohibition did do is exactly what alcohol prohibition did a hundred years ago: increase conflict between police and citizens.

“We have now reached the point where virtually everything that serves black ‘leaders’ — dependency, grievance-hunting, racial hype and paranoia — are major disservices to the cause of advancing blacks, at a time when their opportunities have never been better.”

We need cops who can be held responsible for their actions, as police presence does reduce crime.

Who will bear the ultimate cost of the rioting? If you said black people, you are right.

The racial “diversity” achieved by city police departments, as in New York City and Los Angeles, has not and will not stop charges of “institutional racism” as long as many of the “reformers'” true intent is for black criminals to go unpunished.

Burning police stations and looting stores won’t speed that progress. It sets us back.

Black people must ask what needs to be done to stop criminals from preying on them and making so many of their communities economic wastelands.

Crime imposes a hefty tax on people who can least afford it.

The principle of freedom trumps government regulation. In Ayn Rand’s words: “Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind.” 

Ideology almost perfectly predicts the position of criminologists on issues from gun control to capital punishment to harsh sentencing.

Today’s level of lawlessness and insecurity in many black communities is a relatively new phenomenon. In the 1950s, ’40s, ’30s and earlier times, people didn’t bar their windows.

Police and laws can never replace moral values as restraints on personal conduct.

Sex slavery is evil. Authorities should do everything they can to stop it. But there is a big difference between slavery and sex work done by consenting adults.

Voluntary trade is the only way for human beings to deal with one another, to make their flourishing possible and to enhance it through division of labor.

“The number of hate crime hoaxes actually exceeds the number of convictions. The majority of these high-profile incidents never happened” according to the author of Hate Crime Hoax.

How often do people lie to or about the police?

What have blacks gained from unquestioning loyalty to the Democratic Party?

Kaepernick’s protest was bogus from the start, and it only helped to create greater unnecessary tension between the black community and the police. “Citizen of the Year,” indeed.