The Progressive Crime Wave

My article in today’s FrontPageMag: The Progressive Crime Wave By Matthew Vadum After two decades of falling crime rates nationwide, rising levels of intense cop-hatred across America appear to be contributing to a spike in violent crime in major cities, according to leading scholar Heather Mac Donald. The “most plausible explanation of the current surge in lawlessness is the intense agitation against American police departments over the past nine months,” writes Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. Some of the anger in the streets that has turned into rioting and looting sprees is … Continue reading The Progressive Crime Wave