While Texas should maintain tough laws that keep violent offenders, sex offenders, drug kingpins, and habitual home burglars in prison for long periods, narrowly tailored policy changes can control future incarceration costs by rerouting nonviolent substance abuse offenders who do not pose a threat to public safety.
Biden took credit, but we should thank local cops for cutting crime
Cops in cities like Detroit and Dallas are cutting crime. Biden’s billions didn’t help DC. The re-election campaign for President Joe Biden is spending significant bandwidth trying to rehabilitate his poor reputation on the subject of crime and criminal justice policy, and for good reason. Recent polling shows that more than half of the country is dissatisfied...