All in the name of financials and economics…let’s get criminals out of prisons and back on the streets.
Topic: crime
Border Patrol Withdraws from University of California-Irvine Career Fair after Complaints They’re Offensive, Unsafe
The Border Patrol backed out of participating in the University of California-Irvine’s career fair because the negative attention could distract from recruiters’ ability to recruit applicants.
Stealing from Wal-Mart isn’t a Crime, says College Administrator
The Director of Community Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made this claim, which is ridiculous when you think of the rule of law.
INFOGRAPHIC: The Dangers of Sanctuary Cities
After the Kate Steinle murder at the hands of an illegal immigrant, Hans von Spakovsky dug into the numbers and found the following, which we’ve put into an infographic:
Corrosion of Sanctuary Cities
“Sanctuary cities” that refuse to turn over deportable felons to the feds are frequently located in college towns. Yet and still, it’s hard to find academics who will speak ill of them, no matter how…
Teaching Moment on Baltimore Missed
Here’s what so-called “teachable moments” in academia generally miss—the decade those moments are in. “There is a revolution taking place in the United States,” Stanford researchers Travis Bristol and Claude Goldenberg write of their Edutopia…
Professors for Empty Prisons
Professors who rail against the imprisonment of blacks rarely show as much interest in black victims of crime. “In 1980, there were 500,000 Americans in prison or jail,” Jason Stanley writes in The Chronicle Review….
Academics Fix Another Problem
How many academics does it take to fix America’s criminal justice system? Twenty. That’s how many participated in a National Research Council (NRC) study of U.S. prisons and their effect on inner cities. The study…
University of Minnesota says it won’t include Race in Crime Alerts on their campuses
This isn’t a joke. The university won’t use race in their crime alerts, but doesn’t that do more harm than good?!
New York Times Columnist Screams Racial Profiling after Son is Detained by Yale Police
A burglary suspect fled the scene of a crime, and the Yale police ended up pulling aside the son of Charles Blow, a columnist for the New York Times. Blow tweeted his outrage, but his…