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The Sound Behind You Is Reality Catching Up (and It’s Carrying a Gun)
By Jack Dunphy Feb 27, 2021 9:05 PM ET
It was the tough-on-crime measures enacted in the early and mid-1990s that stemmed the rising tide of violence seen across the country (2,245 homicides in New York City in 1990, 1,092 in Los Angeles and 943 in Chicago in 1992) and brought about the relative placidity of recent years. Those gains have been reversed with staggering speed, all with the blessing of these progressive prosecutors and their enablers in academia and media outlets like the Los Angeles Times, all of whom share the naive, even childlike belief that showing compassion for the cruel will make them less so.
You can run only so far from reality. Like a bullet, it catches up with you quickly.