New Evidence for the Ferguson Effect - City Journal
Jan 14, 2022 · Recent studies support a long-standing theory connecting police protests and rising violent crime. In 2015 and 2016, the coincidence of a major surge in homicides following mass protests over the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted a heated debate about whether the demonstrations, and the anti-police hostility they ...
Heather Mac Donald | City Journal
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has covered a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, and …
Review of "The Fourth Turning Is Here" by Neil Howe
Sep 3, 2023 · The Fourth Turning Is Here, by Neil Howe (Simon & Schuster, 592 pp., $32.50) “The old American republic is collapsing. And a new American republic, as yet unrecognizable, is under construction.”. The opening line of historian Neil Howe’s The Fourth Turning Is Here (2023) jumps to the point. It also foreshadows the odd dualistic theme that ...
“I’m Not Mad at Americans” | City Journal
Oct 10, 2024 · Maybe it’s easier to get in Florida than here. I’m not mad at Americans. I’m frustrated with myself, my people, my government, and our politicians. Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of America’s Cultural Revolution. Christina Buttons is an ...
On Race and Crime, a Counterfactual Narrative | City Journal
Apr 25, 2023 · Every news outlet that covered the shooting led with the race of Yarl and of Lester. Yarl was inevitably identified as a “Black” teenager and Lester as a “white” homeowner. The Kansas City district attorney validated the race narrative. The shooting had a “racial component,” the prosecutor said, without offering evidence.
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Yes, Violent Crime in Cities Is on the Rise | City Journal
Oct 4, 2022 · According to the NCVS, violent crime in urban areas rose 29 percent from 2020 to 2021, from 19.0 to 24.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons aged 12 or older. From 2018 through 2020, the NCVS found that the violent-crime rate in urban areas was between 29 percent and 42 percent higher than the rate in rural areas.
The Real Story Behind Drag Queen Story Hour | City Journal
Oct 23, 2022 · Drag Queen Story Hour—in which performers in drag read books to kids in libraries, schools, and bookstores—has become a cultural flashpoint. The political Right has denounced these performances as sexual transgressions against children, while the political Left has defended them as an expression of LGBTQ pride. The intellectual debate has even spilled into real-world conflict: […]
How New York Became Safe: The Full Story
Jul 17, 2009 · In July 1985, the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City published a study showing widespread fear of theft and assault in downtown Brooklyn, Fordham Road in the Bronx, and Jamaica Center in Queens. Riders abandoned the subway in droves, fearing assault from lunatics and gangs.
The Truth About White Flight - City Journal
Dec 23, 2020 · S peaking at an October 2019 Obama Foundation Summit, Michelle Obama reminisced about growing up in South Shore, a Chicago lakefront neighborhood. Some memories were bitter. The former First Lady, born in 1964, lamented living through “white flight.” As “upstanding families like ours, who were doing everything we were supposed to do . . . moved in,” she said, “white folks moved out.”