America on Fire is an ideological account of American race riots that fails to hold up against the facts.
Barry Latzer
The Profession is a fascinating and colorful account of law-enforcement leadership and the vision that American policing sorely needs today.
Charged with a duty to apprehend offenders, police officers must be prepared to use force. Armed confrontations in these circumstances are inevitable.
Debates should continue about root causes, but attacking incarceration is not the right way forward.
Compared to Europe, Canada and Australia the honest answer is “yes—but with good reason.”
Progressives have decided that district attorneys are responsible for mass incarceration, which is wrong on a number of counts.
The so-called "First Step Act" offers some worthy reforms, but nothing that would satisfy progressive fantasies.
Sharkey acknowledges that the decline in crime happened because of mass incarceration and a ramped up criminal justice system.
John F. Pfaff’s Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration is probably the best book on so-called mass incarceration to date.
Barry Latzer is professor emeritus at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. His latest book is The Roots of Violent Crime in America: From the Gilded Age through the Great Depression (LSU Press) and the newly-released The Myth of Overpunishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public (Republic Books).