Aging Boomer Men Can’t Quit Their Violent, Murderous Ways
BROKEN BADA cop shooting by a 74-year-old in South Carolina spotlights the continuing violence of the most violent generation in recent American history.
There’s No Surefire Solution to Ending Mass Shootings
Bloody DifficultThat’s the bad news. The good news is that overall gun violence is in fact down, and we have ways to bring it down further.
The ’70s Crime Tsunami Is Gone—And Never Coming Back
AberrationNew York City’s mayor recently boasted that the murder rate is back to 1950s levels. He’s right. And the news is actually even better than that: It may just stay that way.
Poverty Is Down. So Why Is Violent Crime Up?
PuzzleYou’d think that if people are less poor, there’d be less crime. Welcome to the anomaly that has baffled criminal justice experts for a century.