BROKEN BAD
A cop shooting by a 74-year-old in South Carolina spotlights the continuing violence of the most violent generation in recent American history.
Bloody Difficult
That’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.
Aberration
New 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.
Puzzle
You’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.