The Bullet Counters: "Killing an Unarmed Man" Who Is Trying To Run You Over With His Car
by Thomas Sowell
(May 23, 2008)
The biggest and most common talking point when the police fire at someone is counting how many bullets they fired.
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Alternatives to Incarceration and The Costs of Crime
by Thomas Sowell
(March 11, 2008)
The cost of locking up criminals has to be paid out of government budgets that politicians would prefer to spend on giveaway programs that are more likely to get them re-elected. But the far higher costs of letting criminals loose is paid by the general public in both money and in being subjected to violence.
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At Last!
by Thomas Sowell
(December 11, 2007)
As someone who once taught pistol shooting in the Marine Corps, it has never seemed strange to me that the police sometimes fire dozens of shots at a criminal.
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Crime and Rhetoric
by Thomas Sowell
(October 18, 2007)
The left is still comfortable talking about "injustices and inequities" -- even without notes -- and certainly without confronting the vast amount of evidence that they are wrong.
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High-Speed Car Chases By The Police
by Thomas Sowell
(September 12, 2007)
High-speed car chases by police on highways, or even on residential streets, have become a staple of television news. An estimated 500 people died as a result of high-speed car chases last year.
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A Land Fit for Criminals, Part II
by Thomas Sowell
(August 21, 2006)
Do higher rates of imprisonment reduce crime? Is crime a result of poverty, unemployment, and the like? Are alternatives to incarceration more effective in preventing criminals from repeating their crimes?
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A Land Fit for Criminals, Part I
by Thomas Sowell
(August 20, 2006)
David Fraser's book "A Land Fit for Criminals" examines that evidence at length and exposes the fraudulence of the claims used to try to justify continuing to be lenient to criminals as crime rates have soared in Britain.
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Rebuilding New Orleans -- and America
by Thomas Sowell
(September 6, 2005)
The physical devastation caused by hurricane Katrina has painfully revealed the moral devastation of our times that has led to mass looting in New Orleans, assaults on people in shelters, the raping of girls, and shots being fired at helicopters that are trying to rescue people.
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Destroying Effective Policing
by Walter Williams
(June 1, 2005)
Police departments must use race and sex preferences in hiring as a result of federal court consent decrees and political pressures. To meet these demands, many police departments have lowered, and in some cases eliminated, established standards for personal character and intellectual and physical capacity.
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The Psychology of Junior Sniper Lee Malvo
by Michael J. Hurd
(December 14, 2003)
There is no such thing as a psychological disorder which leads people to become so loyal that they're willing to kill. It's conjecture and excuse-making taken to a nearly incomprehensible extreme.
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