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When my landlord's management company informed me that they hadn't received my rent check, I was surprised. As is true of most Americans, housing is by far my biggest expense, so of course I noticed when the money vanished from my account. The mystery deepened when I conjured up an image of the canceled check... Read More
I didn’t really understand what the Left’s lax attitude towards crime meant until I was in Berkeley in California last summer. In a branch of Target, anything which cost more than about 20 dollars could not simply be taken off the rack. It was locked onto it in order to prevent theft. You had to... Read More
[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I started out my January Diary grumbling about New York, the state of which I am a tax-paying resident. Quote from me: "I love my country but I don't much like my state." Well, as bad as New York State may be, New York... Read More
See, earlier The Fulford File: Ann Coulter On Willie Horton, Joey Fournier—And What Life Is Really Like and Ann Coulter: Bush's Finest 30 Seconds—The Willie Horton Ad The sight of the Great Replacement invasion at the southwest border should provoke outrage. It hasn’t, but it could, and very much the old-fashioned way: with the same... Read More
Following the death of George Floyd, America’s major corporations united to provide moral and financial support to Black Lives Matter rioters in the name of racial equity. In June 2020, Target announced $10 million dollars to support various minority racial causes. Walmart earmarked $100 million to a “Center for Racial Equity,†dispersed as donations to... Read More
Visitors to Bath, England, learn that the town's namesake first-century spa deteriorated following the collapse of Roman authority in the fifth century. Unmaintained, the reservoir silted up and blocked the drainage system, burying the facility and surrounding buildings under yards of mud. Tutored by the Romans, the local English initially knew how to keep the... Read More
[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] El Salvador got some attention last week. That's unusual; it's a small and inconsequential country, the size of New Jersey, population a bit less than Indiana. It's not an immediate neighbor of ours, either. If you want to walk to El Salvador, you'll first... Read More
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe Ephraim Shoham-Steiner Wayne State University Press, 2020. Thus begins Ephraim Shoham-Steiner’s Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe— a clear and remarkable enunciation of the sanitized, curated, and paranoid nature of Jewish historiography. The above statement illustrates that, while Europeans and their history have long been open to every group... Read More
In addition to torture and democracy, there is yet another place where the US can claim to be the world’s leader, and that is throwing people into prisons. America has only 4% of the world’s population, but has 25% of the world’s prisoners in jails, with more than one person in every 30 either in... Read More
Above, extremely fit-looking off-duty Swedish police officer Mikaela Kaellner kneels on a man she caught stealing a mobile phone—see What Kind Of "Man" Did Swedish Bikini Cop Arrest For Stealing From Sunbathers? Probably A Gypsy(2016) Sweden, once one of the most peaceful and safest countries in the world, is leading the way in destroying itself... Read More
Since at least 2018, George Soros and his network have spent over $100 million to elect district attorneys who are soft on crime. These DAs were behind “catch-and-release†policies that encouraged endless rioting in 2020, and brought on crime waves in many big cities. Last night, the most radical of these DAs, San Francisco’s Chesa... Read More
Are the Democrats headed for their Little Bighorn, with President Joe Biden as Col. Custer? The wish, you suggest, is father to the thought. Yet, consider. On taking office, Biden held a winning hand. Three vaccines, with excellent efficacy rates, had been created and were being administered at a rate of a million shots a... Read More
On Tuesday, Brooklyn Borough President and former police captain Eric Adams took the lead in the New York mayoral race with 32% of the Democratic primary vote, 10 points more than progressive Maya Wiley, who had the endorsement of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. How did Adams beat the elite? Said The New York Times: Adams built... Read More
The Republican Party's embrace of "criminal justice reform" has brought chaos and danger to a number of deep red states, including Utah, a new investigative report has found. Senator Mike Lee, who represents Utahns, is a leading GOP proponent of emptying America's prisons. A number of parole officers blew the whistle on the problems with... Read More
The other day a friend and I were partaking of the mortal remains of quite a number of defenseless grapes, and the subject of law enforce arose. Having spent a number of years as a police reporter, I began thinking of curious and often erroneous ideas that people have of what we regard as a... Read More
Yesterday (June 26, 2020) the city council in Minneapolis (12 Democrats and 1 Green) unanimously voted to abolish the city’s police department. For this measure to come into effect, city residents will have to approve it in a November election. By November the hamstrung police who are prevented from enforcing the laws on the books... Read More
Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively at VDARE.com If I were advising the Trump campaign, I'd tell them to lean hard on the law-and-order issue. Increasingly, it seems to me, on several different fronts, we are a lawless society. Exhibit A: The bail-reform laws passed by the New York State legislature last year.... Read More
Did President Donald Trump launch his Twitter barrage at Elijah Cummings simply because the Baltimore congressman was black? Was it just a "racist" attack on a member of the Black Caucus? Or did Trump go after Cummings after a Saturday Fox News report that his district was in far worse condition than the Mexican border... Read More
As I was growing up in the suburban San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s, organized crime seemed like a very distant thing, confined to the densely-populated cities of the East Coast or to America's past, much like the corrupt political machines with which it was usually associated. I never heard... Read More
A few days ago the BBC reported on an extraordinary French identity theft scam. For two years starting in late 2015, an individual or individuals impersonating France's defence minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, scammed an estimated €80m from wealthy French patriots. The victims of this fraud were tricked into believing that they were being contacted by... Read More
Thanks to a recent White House conference, the debate over America’s “school-to-prison pipeline†is for the umpteenth time back in the news. These pow-wows inevitably offer up a standard litany of talking points and putative remedies. First, there is the obliquitory outrage over having far too many black males in prison. Second, the entire system,... Read More
Introductory note: I wanted to touch upon this subject for a long, long while, because it is one I care about a lot. However, it is also totally off-topic for this blog. However, since in Russia there is a lull (that is putting it mildly) between New Year and the Orthodox Nativity, I decided to... Read More
The figures boggle the mind. Approximately 11 million Americans cycle through our jails and prisons each year (including a vast “pre-trial population†of those arrested and not convicted and those who simply can’t make bail). At any moment, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, there are more than 2.3 million people in our “1,719 state... Read More
You’ve heard of distracted driving? It causes quite a few auto accidents and it’s illegal in a majority of states. Well, this year, a brave New Jersey state senator, a Democrat, took on the pernicious problem of distracted walking. Faced with the fact that some people can’t tear themselves away from their smartphones long enough... Read More
Once upon a time, I was a journalist, covering war in Indochina, Central America, and the Middle East. I made it my job to write about the victims of war, the "civilian casualties." To me, they were hardly "collateral damage," that bloodless term the military persuaded journalists to adopt. To me, they were the center... Read More
Step aside, Sam Spade. Move over, Philip Marlowe. You want noir? Skip the famed private eye novels and films of the 1930s and 1940s and turn to our present American world and to neighborhoods where the postman doesn’t ring even once, but the police are ready to shootmore than once, often on the slightest excuse.... Read More
Barack Obama, as chief law enforcement officer of the United States, is going to have to stop acting like a conscientious objector in this war on cops. Wednesday, another officer, in Fox Lake, Illinois, Lt. Charles "GI Joe" Gliniewicz, was gunned down. Last Friday, Darren Goforth, a Houston deputy sheriff, was shot 15 times by... Read More
See? I really was a police writer. Maybe the world's ugliest. I'm not making it up. I sometimes wish that people knew more about cops, who they are, and the world they live in. There are pretty good cops (most) and very bad ones (few) but accounts in the press usually bear little relation to... Read More
Ominously timed for Campaign 2008 we've got a hike in certain stats for violent crime. So we can look forward to Steve Squarejaw-type commitments to being tough on crime, particularly from Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and -- it's surely safe to assume -- Hillary Clinton. The Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based law enforcement think... Read More
Having just voted overwhelmingly for the socialism of Tony Blair, the good folk of Great Britain are now amazed and alarmed to discover that what they are getting in return are the logical consequences of the socialism they voted for. Last week, the British government announced that the convicted teenage killers of a 2-year-old boy... Read More
The May issue of COMMENTARY---containing the second round of your debate on American decline, and mostly attacking Edward N. Luttwak's thesis on the "third-worldization" of America---arrived simultaneously with the nationwide wave of riots, looting, and arson, which fully confirmed Mr. Luttwak's position. One must separate the two parts of his argument. America's relative economic decline,... Read More