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Originally Recorded August 25th, 2023About Professor Barry Latzer: http://newserver.jjay.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/faculty/cv/Latzer_Barry.pdfCheck out Professor Latzer's new book The Myth of Overpunishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public: https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Overpunishment-American-Incarceration-Protecting/dp/1645720322 Get full access to Unlicensed Philosophy with Chuong Nguyen at musicallyspeaking.substack.com/subscribe

Host Paul Pacelli wrapped up another busy week on "Connecticut Today" with some thoughts from a prominent New York Times columnist on former President Trump's enduring popularity with GOP voters (0:31). We welcomed Dr. Barry Latzer, author of, "The Myth of Overpunishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public" (9:08). Former Bridgeport State Rep. Chris Caruso stopped by for his weekly update (21:55). Image Credit: Reuters

Debunking Myths About Crime In America There are many myths put out there by progressives when it comes to crime in America. Those myths have turned into policy and helped lead us down a slippery slope as a nation. So Mike Slater asks the question: are we even worthy of being a civilized society? To help answer that question, Mike is joined by Barry Latzer. Barry is the author of multiple books, including The Myth Of Over-punishment.  Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Debunking Myths About Crime In America There are many myths put out there by progressives when it comes to crime in America. Those myths have turned into policy and helped lead us down a slippery slope as a nation. So Mike Slater asks the question: are we even worthy of being a civilized society? To help answer that question, Mike is joined by Barry Latzer. Barry is the author of multiple books, including The Myth Of Over-punishment.  Public Sq: Download the PublicSq. app today and connects freedom-loving Americans with the communities and business that share their values. Visit https://publicsq.com today. Patriot Gold: Call the Proud Americans of the Patriot Gold Group today. 888-617-6122 and mention Mike Slater sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Links from the show:* The Myth of Overpunishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public* Is lethal injection humane? With Dr. Austin Sarat* Rate the showAbout my guest:For over three and a half decades Barry Latzer was Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College, CUNY, where he was a member of the Masters' and Doctoral faculties. He taught courses on criminal justice, criminal law and procedure, state constitutional law, capital punishment, and most recently, crime history. Professor Latzer wrote and published five books and approximately 90 scholarly articles, research reports, magazine articles, book reviews and op-eds. His scholarly articles have been published in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, the Journal of Criminal Justice, Judicature, Judges' Journal, Criminal Law Bulletin, and major law reviews. Other writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Beast, National Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, City Journal, the Law & Liberty website, the New York Post and the New York Daily News. A widely read interview with David Frum appeared in Atlantic, June 19, 2016. Professor Latzer received a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts (1977), and a law degree from Fordham University (1985). His BA was from Brooklyn College (1966). He briefly served as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn (1985-86) and as counsel to indigent criminal defendants in Manhattan (1986-87). Get full access to Dispatches from the War Room at dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com/subscribe

Today, The Two Mikes spoke with Barry Latzer, Professor Emeritus in Criminal Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, where he taught for 30 years. Professor Latzer is the author of a new book called The Myth of Overpunishment. A Defense of the American Justice System, and a Plan to Reduce Incarceration while Protecting the Public. Professor Latzer said that the notion of "mass incarceration" is inaccurate and diminishing. The crime wave we are seeing today is a direct result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The lockdowns that were a feature of the Covid-era provided criminals the means and opportunities for criminal aggressiveness that has led to a crime spike. Added to that source of the crime spike is another; namely, the flood of illegal aliens flowing over America's southern border with the complete support and financial assistance of the Biden Administration. The only way to end the second cause of the crime spike, is to close the southern border completely. Other problems that must be solved include the fact that (a) 80-percent of those who are incarcerated are released prior to serving their full sentence, (b) the fact that myriad Soros-bought prosecutors are releasing individuals arrested for felonies without trial, and (c) the fact of the steadily growing rate of Black-on-Black violence, which is responsible for the fact that 50-percent of all murder victims are Black. Point (c) primarily explains that crime, not racism, is the reason for the large number of incarcerated Blacks. Professor Latzer concluded our talk with an intriguing plan to use electronic means to assist parolees not to go back to their previous criminal activities. Professor Latzer's fine book is available in hard and soft cover at Amazon. Sponsors CARES Act Stimulus (COVID-19) Employee Retention Tax Credits (ERC): https://www.jornscpa.com/snap/?refid=11454757Cambridge Credit: https://www.cambridge-credit.org/twomikes/ EMP Shield: https://www.empshield.com/?coupon=twomikesOur Gold Guy: https://www.ourgoldguy.com www.TwoMikes.us

Barry Latzer was Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College for over three and a half decades. What ‘Progressives' Get All Wrong About Prison Rehabilitation

Today we're talking about the crisis at the border after Title 42 expired and immigration parole, as well as why Biden's immigration policies are so dangerous for our country. We look at the overcrowding issues at the border, as well as why we seem to see mostly grown men immigrate rather than women and children. Then we're joined by Barry Latzer, emeritus professor of criminal justice and author of "The Myth of Overpunishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public," to discuss the failures of the justice system. We talk about the myth of over-punishment in the prison system, recidivism, and who is really paying the price for weak progressive policies on justice. We also look at the cases of Jordan Neely and Daniel Penny and why the system has failed both of them. We discuss some possible solutions, as well as why mental health services and psychiatric wards aren't actually that helpful to those suffering from mental illnesses, which creates further crime problems. --- Timecodes: (01:25) Intro (05:49) Title 42 expired (08:47) Overcrowding (14:32) Parole (19:23) Biden thinks things are going great (19:55) Sad stories & America first (25:10) Interview with Barry Latzer begins / incarceration numbers (31:40) Recidivism / Jordan Neely & Daniel Penny (43:50) Psychiatric care and crime (56:35) Migrant crisis (01:07:02) Legal immigration --- Today's Sponsors: A'Del — go to adelnaturalcosmetics.com and enter promo code "ALLIE" for 25% off your first order! PublicSq. — download the PublicSq app from the App Store or Google Play, create a free account, and begin your search for freedom-loving businesses! My Patriot Supply — prepare yourself for anything with long-term emergency food storage. Get $200 of survival gear when you buy a Three-Month Emergency Food Kit when you go to MyPatriotSupply.com. Quinn's Goat Soap — goat soap smells amazing and feels great on your skin, and unlike other soaps it cleans and moisturizes at the same time. Go to QPGoatSoap.com and use code “ALLIE” for 10% off your order. --- Links: Wall Street Journal: "This Isn't the First Migrant Crisis" https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-isnt-the-first-migrant-crisis-new-york-tenements-police-station-crime-8de98f0a?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1 AP News: "Judge orders halt to fast releases at US border with Mexico" https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/6400-migrants-released-from-border-patrol-custody-without-court-notices/ Fox News: "DHS Sec. Mayorkas takes victory lap as border surge continues" https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-sec-mayorkas-takes-victory-lap-border-surge-continues Fox News: "1.5 million 'gotaways' at the border under the Biden administration: report" https://www.foxnews.com/politics/million-gotaways-border-biden-administration-report Tampa Bay Times: "Teen likely died after seizure at Safety Harbor migrant shelter, sheriff says" https://www.tampabay.com/news/pinellas/2023/05/15/safety-harbor-migrant-shelter-teen-death-seizure-medical-epilepsy/ Fox News: "NYC officials infuriate locals by sending migrants to school gyms: 'Unfair, unacceptable'" https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyc-officials-infuriate-locals-sending-migrants-school-gyms-unfair-unacceptable --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 806 | Justice for Maple: A Story of Pit Bulls & Political Corruption | Guest: Holly Simon https://apple.co/42QT5h2 Ep 665 | Why American Cities Are Dying | Guest: Sean Fitzgerald https://apple.co/3Bxx6j9 Ep 800 | Anthropologie: Women's Clothes for Men https://apple.co/3MkZREK --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hour 3: Barry Latzer, a former professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College in New York, calls in to share his latest Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal on the Migrant Crisis. Then, 97.1 legal analysts with Harris, Dowell, Fischer, and Young, Brad Young joins the Mark Reardon Show to discuss the implications of Kim Gardner stepping down today, and attempting to appoint her successor. They also discuss the latest on the Durham Report! Later, Mark brings you the Audio Cut of the Day!

Today, The Two Mikes spoke with Barry Latzer, Professor Emeritus in Criminal Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, where he taught for 30 years. Professor Latzer is the author of a new book called The Myth of Overpunishment. A Defense of the American Justice System, and a Plan to Reduce Incarceration while Protecting the Public. Professor Latzer said that the notion of "mass incarceration" is inaccurate and diminishing. The crime wave we are seeing today is a direct result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The lockdowns that were a feature of the Covid-era provided criminals the means and opportunities for criminal aggressiveness that has led to a crime spike. Added to that source of the crime spike is another; namely, the flood of illegal aliens flowing over America's southern border with the complete support and financial assistance of the Biden Administration. The only way to end the second cause of the crime spike, is to close the southern border completely. Other problems that must be solved include the fact that (a) 80-percent of those who are incarcerated are released prior to serving their full sentence, (b) the fact that myriad Soros-bought prosecutors are releasing individuals arrested for felonies without trial, and (c) the fact of the steadily growing rate of Black-on-Black violence, which is responsible for the fact that 50-percent of all murder victims are Black. Point (c) primarily explains that crime, not racism, is the reason for the large number of incarcerated Blacks. Professor Latzer concluded our talk with an intriguing plan to use electronic means to assist parolees not to go back to their previous criminal activities. Professor Latzer's fine book is available in hard and soft cover at Amazon. Sponsors CARES Act Stimulus (COVID-19) Employee Retention Tax Credits (ERC): https://www.jornscpa.com/snap/?refid=11454757 Cambridge Credit: https://www.cambridge-credit.org/twomikes/ EMP Shield: https://www.empshield.com/?coupon=twomikes Our Gold Guy: https://www.ourgoldguy.com www.TwoMikes.us

As the radical left takes aim at America's justice system, their "reforms" have led to a rapid increase in catch and release policing that has had a disastrous effect on America's big cities. On this episode, Producer Andrew is joined by author, professor and former Brooklyn Assistant D.A., Barry Latzer, to discuss his new book, ‘The Myth of Overpunishment' as they compare America to El Salvador, brainstorm new and proven ideas to reduce crime, and discuss the danger behind America's lurch to the soft-on-crime nightmare we're currently living through.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

More calls start the hour, bathrooms, etc. then law professor Dr. Barry Latzer talks about his new book THE MYTH OF OVERPUNISHMENT - interesting talk on the real violent crime stats, Matt McCaw, Greater Idaho Project - stinkiness fighting them in E. Ore?

Join Garrett Snedeker and Criminologist Barry Latzer for an in-depth look at Latzer's new book, The Myth of Overpunishment, arguing provocatively that America underincarcerates. Latzer also details his proposal for reducing the cost of incarceration as well as the overall prison population: e-carceration.

Prof. Emeritus Dr. Barry Latzer has published a new book: The Myth of Overpunishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public.Available on YoutubeDrs. Klein and Latzer engage in an earnest and honest discussion of the facts on the ground, including the history of brutal incarceration in America, the progressive policies and their effects, real historical racism in US prison systems, current trends that are misinterpreted as arising from racism, crime spikes throughout US history, and reasonable responses to highly contentious issues of our political and societal stances on incarceration. Support the show

Mario Noya nos recomienda varios libros como Criminal (In)Justice y ‘The Myth of Overpunishment', de los escritores Rafael Mangual y Barry Latzer.

Host: Larry Bernstein. Guests are Barry Latzer and Howard Husock

Dr. Klein is a clinical and forensic psychologist. This week he sits down with renown criminologist, Dr. Barry Latzer. Dr. Latzer is an Emeritus Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a member of the Doctoral and Master's Faculties in Criminal Justice.  He has taught in the undergraduate program since 1978.  Dr. Latzer has a J.D., Fordham University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His latest book is The Roots of Violent Crime in America: From the Gilded Age through the Great Depression (LSU Press). Forthcoming in early 2022: The Myth of Overpunishment (Republic Books). Dr. Latzer has been published in the WSJ and the National Review as well as various other news sources. This is an essential discussion for the American public.  Support the show

In the next two weeks the Thinking Kind podcast will interview Dr. Barry Latzer, as well as Dr. J Reid Meloy.  Dr. Latzer is a widely published and respected criminologist and emeritus professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.Dr. Meloy is the world leading expert on threat detection and has been consulted by FBI Quantico, the Royal family, as well as high-profile criminal and civil courts throughout the US and Europe. I will interview each of these two experts in the coming weeks and publish the conversations on the Thinking Kind podcast. Please remember to tell as many people as you can about Thinking Kind.  Support the show

This week on TGS we’ve got Rav Arora. He’s a compelling writer on race matters in the US. He’s also a college undergraduate, though it would be a mistake to underestimate him. He’s already published in a number of widely read outlets, including the New York Post, Quillette, and City Journal. He’s also got a Substack called Noble Truths, where he writes about psychedelics, meditation, and cultural trends. I begin by inquiring into Rav’s intellectual background. What is this young guy from Canada doing writing about race and crime in the US, anyway? Rav talks about how the summer of 2020 led him to rethink his views and begin writing about them for the public. Rav is quite critical of the way that race, crime, and policing are covered in the US media, but he’s got a nuanced view of things. He talks about why he thinks we need police reform and also more police on the streets. We then move on to a discussion of systemic racism. I say it’s not inconceivable that a police department with a disproportionately high number of black officers could perpetuate racial inequality, though Rav doesn’t seem quite convinced that’s the case. From there, we discuss the misguided claim that violent crime in some black communities is driven solely by poverty. When the question of genetic factors in crime rates comes up, I don’t demure. I don’t know whether there actually is a genetic component, but I’m not ready to dismiss it out of hand. And we round out the discussion by touching on alternatives to incarceration, the increasing earning power of Asian American women, and the recent historic rise in US homicide rates. Rav and I covered a lot of ground in this one. He’s a vital new voice, one I’ll be paying close attention to—I hope you will, too. This post is free and available to the public. To receive early access to TGS episodes, an ad-free podcast feed, Q&As, and other exclusive content and benefits, click below.Want to give the gift of The Glenn Show this holiday season? Click below to purchase a subscription for a friend or loved one. 0:00 How Rav got his start on the crime, policing, and identity politics beat 10:33 Why is a Canadian college student writing about race and crime in the US? 21:30 Rav: We need police reform but also more police in black communities 31:34 Will hiring more black police officers make police departments “less racist”? 43:26 Glenn: It’s ridiculous to say that violent crime is driven only by poverty 50:04 Is it possible that racial disparities in crime rates have a genetic basis? 55:09 Are there any effective alternatives to prison? 1:00:52 Why Asian American women are out-earning white men 1:10:23 What’s behind the historic rise in homicide rates?Rav’s Substack, Noble TruthsAldon Morris’s Scientific American essay, “From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter”Rav’s Quillette piece, “A Peculiar Kind of Racist Patriarchy”  Urban Labs’ Becoming a Man program David Frum’s 2016 interview with Barry Latzer about crime wavesLast year’s famous study of the “Minneapolis effect”The Marshall Project’s analysis of race and victimization in 2020 This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at glennloury.substack.com/subscribe

Barry Latzer joins Brian Anderson to discuss crime and punishment in the United States, today's debates over criminal justice, and his new book, The Roots of Violent Crime in America.

Barry Latzer joins Brian Anderson to discuss crime and punishment in the United States, today's debates over criminal justice, and his new book, The Roots of Violent Crime in America. Find the transcript of this conversation and more at City Journal.

Hour 3 of 5-25-21 Barry Latzer talks about the increased crime we can expect for communities that defund the police. Deacon Harold Burke Sivers explores the problem of racism in our country, where we are, where we’ve been, and how we can heal. He acknowledges that we need a true civil rights hero for our […] All show notes at Defunding the police - This podcast produced by Relevant Radio

Guest speakers include Kathleen Cagney, Barry Eichengreen, Bryan Caplan, Jonathan Haidt, John Birge, Ted Conover, Barry Latzer, Jonathan Bean, and Michael Tollin.

This podcast with criminologist Barry Latzer focuses on the surprising findings in his latest book, The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America. Latzer discusses the violent crime wave that began in the mid 1960’s and how its sharp fall in the mid 90s has recast urban life in America. However, Latzer urges humility in understanding […]

On this episode of Curriculum Vitae, Peter Wood and Barry Latzer discuss race, crime, and Barry’s battles with the progressive guardians of the publishing world.

Click Here Or On Above Image To Reach Our ExpertsSecurity Expert Says, "Confidence In Local Police Depts. Reaches A 20yr. Low"Ronald Reagan famously stated, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.” But should we apply such thinking to the police? The answer depends on whom we ask. Many liberals who otherwise defend every government program and unionized job believe that the police are increasingly abusing their power. Many conservatives who otherwise complain about unaccountable government officials consider the police department beyond reproach and say that any form of de-policing will make America less safe. Crime has decreased significantly in the past two decades, and many attribute that outcome to the proactive “broken windows” policing first advocated by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in a 1982 article. The theory goes that arresting offenders for minor crimes like loitering or drinking in public leads to a mien of order that in turn discourages major crimes. Citizens will be better off with, and thus prefer, police playing an active role in the community.Surveys today, though, show citizen confidence in the police at its lowest point in 20 years. It has dropped among Americans of all ages, education levels, incomes and races, with the decreases particularly pronounced among the young and minorities. According to a USA Today/Pew Research Center poll, only 30% of African-Americans say that they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the police, and nine out of 10 say that the “police do an ‘only fair' or poor job when it comes to equal treatment and appropriate force.” Nine out of 10 Americans surveyed say that officers should be required to wear body cameras to check police violence.The past month has seen extraordinary killings, both by police officers and of police officers, in St. Paul, Baton Rouge and Dallas. All across the political spectrum, people agree that American policing is in turmoil. But different groups emphasize different aspects of the crisis. Where Black Lives Matter protesters emphasize the danger of being killed by the police, Blue Lives Matter counter-protesters emphasize the risks faced by hard-working policemen. The issues are so polarizing as to leave little room for considered thought or discussion.PRO-DTECH II FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)As an African/American security expert, I'd like to advocate taking a step back and looking at the data to begin to gain some perspective. In 2015, 41 officers were slain in the line of duty. That means the 900,000 U.S. law-enforcement officers face a victimization rate of 4.6 deaths per 100,000 officers. Any number greater than zero is a tragedy, but the average American faces a nearly identical homicide rate of 4.5 per 100,000, and the average male actually faces a homicide rate of 6.6 per 100,000. Being a police officer is thus dangerous but not as dangerous as being an average African/American male.In the same year, police killed 1,207 Americans, or 134 Americans per 100,000 officers, a rate 30 times the homicide rate overall. Police represent about 1 out of 360 members of the population, but commit 1 out of 12 of all killings in the United States. Many argue that these are justifiable, but are they necessary? In England and Germany, where the police represent a similar percentage of the population as in the U.S., they commit less than one-half of 1% of all killings. Are higher rates of violence inevitable in our country with its more heavily armed populace, or can things be done to reduce the growing tensions?CELLPHONE DETECTOR (PROFESSIONAL)(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Former policeman Norm Stamper's book “To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police” provides a first-hand account of the changes in policing over the past few decades and is a useful survey of how we got here. He started as a beat cop in San Diego in 1966 and rose to be chief of police in Seattle from 1994 to 2000. He witnessed both the more discretionary eras of policing and the advent of broken windows policing, which was first adopted in New York City in the 1990s and evolved into an aggressive form of proactive and “zero-tolerance” law enforcement that spread across the nation.PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Mr. Stamper joined the force out of a desire to serve the community but quickly learned that his performance would be judged on the number of tickets he wrote and arrests he made. An experienced officer told him, “You can't let compassion for others get in the way.” There were quotas to fill. “The people on my beat were, in a word, irrelevant,” Mr. Stamper writes.PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)The war on drugs was declared in 1971—then escalated in the 1980s—and Mr. Stamper noticed police increasingly treating civilians like enemy combatants. In 1994, President Clinton passed the largest crime bill in history. It allocated $8.8 billion to hire 100,000 more police officers and $10 billion for new prisons, and it established mandatory arrests for allegations like domestic violence and mandatory life sentences for third-time drug or violent offenders—the three-strikes provision. Incarceration rates spiked nationally. The rate at which the government incarcerates Americans is now seven times what it was in 1965.“To Protect and Serve” is particularly disturbing in showing that, as antagonism toward and disregard for the public increased among policemen, it had few consequences. Officers do not report on their colleagues, and prosecutors are averse to punishing people with whom they must work closely. Mr. Stamper quotes a fellow police chief saying: “As someone who spent 35 years wearing a police uniform, I've come to believe that hundreds of thousands of law-enforcement officers commit perjury every year testifying.” Instead of policemen serving the public, Mr. Stamper concludes, they end up viewing citizens as numbers or revenue sources. One important lesson from economics is that unaccountable government officials will not always act on the public's behalf.PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Another account of modern policing is “A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad” by Del Quentin Wilber, a newspaper reporter who spent a month alongside detectives in one of the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. This attempt at a true-crime drama seems to have been meant in praise of police work, but Mr. Wilber unintentionally creates an unflattering picture. He shows us men who refer to their targets as “reptilian motherf—ers” and conduct multi-hour interrogations in the middle of the night to elicit confessions. They throw chairs against walls to intimidate suspects, lie boldly during interrogations and happily feed lines to witnesses to use in court.One detective “jokes with [another] that he could get [a suspect] to confess to anything: ‘Have any open murders that need to be closed?' ” The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution attempts to restrict search and seizure without probable cause, but judges here grant warrants without a thought: “He just immediately signed the paper and looked at me and winked and said, ‘Good luck.' ” At one point, a supervisor explains that a prisoner cannot be questioned about earlier crimes without having a lawyer present. The detective retorts: “F—ing Constitution.” In the end, the policemen excuse any mistakes they made by saying they had good intentions.WIRELESS/WIRED HIDDENCAMERA FINDER III(Buy/Rent/Layaway)A company that mistreats its customers cannot stay in business merely by saying it acted with good intentions. The police, by contrast, are a tax-funded monopoly, paid regardless of how well they serve or protect. Citizens subject to random fines or harassment cannot turn the police away if they are unhappy with their services. The Justice Department investigation of the Ferguson, Mo., police department last year provided an in-depth account of local politicians, police, prosecutors and judges using the legal system to extract resources from the public. In 2010, the city finance director even wrote to the police chief that “unless ticket writing ramps up significantly before the end of the year, it will be hard to significantly raise collections next year. . . . Given that we are looking at a substantial sales tax shortfall, it's not an insignificant issue.”PRO-DTECH IV FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)In 2013, he wrote to the city manager: “I did ask the Chief if he thought the PD could deliver [a] 10% increase. He indicated they could try.” The Ferguson police department evaluated officers and gave promotions based on “citation productivity,” and prosecutors and judges worked alongside them to collect revenue. In a city with 21,000 residents, the courts issued 9,000 arrest warrants in 2013 for such minor violations as parking and traffic tickets or housing-code violations like having an overgrown lawn.When the Ferguson citizenry started mass protests against police abuses last year, they were met with the equivalent of a standing army. The news photographs of police in camouflage, body armor and helmets working in military formation with guns drawn were a wake-up call for many Americans, who wondered just how the police came be so militarized. It was all part of the spread of zero-tolerance policing in the 1990s.Wireless Camera Finder(Buy/Rent/Layaway)After the 1994 crime bill, President Clinton signed a law encouraging the transfer of billions of dollars of surplus military equipment to police departments. Mr. Stamper describes applying for military hand-me-downs of “night-viewing goggles, grenade launchers, bayonets, assault rifles, armored land vehicles, watercraft, planes and helicopters.” The Department of Homeland Security provides $1.6 billion per year in anti-terrorism grants that police departments can use to purchase military equipment. Police in Hartford, Conn., for example, recently purchased 231 assault rifles, 50 sets of night-vision goggles, a grenade launcher and a mine-resistant vehicle. As recently as the 1970s, SWAT raids were rare, but police now conduct 50,000 per year. The weapons and tactics of war are common among what Mr. Clinton promised in 1994 would be “community policing.”MAGNETIC, ELECTRIC, RADIO ANDMICROWAVE DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)The question is just what would happen if law enforcement toned down its zero-tolerance policies?One of the premier defenders of the police against critics is Heather Mac Donald, a scholar at the Manhattan Institute who publishes regularly in the nation's most popular newspapers, including this one. Her book “The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe” organizes and builds on her articles to create a narrative that warns against adjusting police tactics or lowering incarceration rates. She takes aim at groups ranging from Black Lives Matter to “the Koch brothers [who] have teamed up with the ACLU, for example, to call for lower prison counts and less law enforcement.”Much of the book is focused on the post-Ferguson state of policing, but it also includes some of her warnings and predictions from recent years. In a chapter drawn from a 2013 article, for instance, Ms. Mac Donald worries that in the first full year after the court-mandated 30% decrease in California's prison population, the state's “crime rate climbed considerably over the national average.” And in one from 2014 she writes that the 2013 ruling that led to the elimination of “stop-and-frisk” tactics in New York has set in motion “a spike in violence.” Yet between 2008 and 2014, homicides fell by 21% in California and 34% in New York; crime in other categories was down, too. In the very year when Ms. Mac Donald suggests crime rates were climbing in California, homicide rates fell 7%. This was equally true for New York City after stop and frisk was outlawed; homicide rates were ultimately down 0.5% in 2014. It appears that keeping those extra 46,000 Californians behind bars or subjecting New Yorkers to 4.4 million warrantless searches between 2004 and 2013 was unnecessary for public safety.COUNTERSURVEILLANCE PROBE / MONITOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)More recently, Ms. Mac Donald has warned about a “Ferguson effect” that has led to a “rise in homicides and shootings in the nation's 50 largest cities.” Starting in the summer of 2014, anti-police-violence protests have prompted large reductions in aggressive policing, and Ms. Mac Donald points to increases in crime in cities including Baltimore, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Nashville. She states that we are now seeing a “surge in lawlessness” and a “nationwide crime wave.” The latest FBI data, however, compares the first six months of 2014 and 2015 and shows that violent and property crime have both decreased in dozens of large cities, including Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, New York and Philadelphia. From 2014 to 2015, violent crime did increase by 1.7% nationwide, but property crime decreased by 4.2%. Any data series will have some fluctuation, and even with a sustained downward trend upticks are likely. The homicide rate, for example, has seen rises in four of the past 15 years but has fallen by 18% over the same period. To put the 1.7% “surge in lawlessness” into perspective, 2012 saw a 1.9% increase in violent crime and a 1.5% increase in property crime when zero-tolerance policing was still the norm nationwide. And such a modest increase from one of the safest years in decades did nothing to change the fact that crime remained—and remains—close to a record national low.Ms. Mac Donald is not alone in her thinking. Gallup does an annual survey asking, “Is there more crime in your area than there was a year ago, or less?” In 14 of the past 15 years, the majority of Americans felt that crime had increased. But answering empirical questions requires looking at the numbers. A data-driven book that does not engage in alarmism is “The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America” by Barry Latzer, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The long-term trends in violent crime he presents are telling: In 1900, the American homicide rate was 6 per 100,000 people. During Prohibition, it increased to 9 per 100,000 but fell to 4.5 per 100,000 by the 1950s. From the late 1960s and into the 1970s, the homicide rate spiked, reaching 11 per 100,000. In the late 1970s, it started falling, increasing slightly in the late 1980s but steadily decreasing since the 1990s to the current level of 4.5 per 100,000, among the lowest in the nation's history.PRO-DTECH FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Should one attribute the decrease in crime to zero-tolerance policing and mass incarceration? It turns out that homicide rates in Canada start at a lower level but track the changes in American homicide rates almost exactly. In the past 25 years, our northern neighbor experienced equal declines in all major crime categories despite never having ramped up its policing or incarceration rates. Those attributing all decreases in crime to increases in American law enforcement are looking in the wrong place. As Mr. Latzer carefully says, “the jury is still out”: Violent crime rates “fell off all over the nation without any clear relationship between the enormous declines in some cities and the adoption of new policing models.” Even though American and Canadian homicide rates rose in the late 1980s, the long-term downward trend clearly began in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Mr. Latzer concludes that the major determinants of a crime rate are likely cultural factors and economic opportunity. The employed family man is going to be less interested in crime than the unemployed and unattached.A month ago we heard predictions about the world economy's impending collapse if Britain left the European Union. Yet within a week of the Brexit vote, British stock prices reached 2016 highs, and American stock prices are at an all-time high. We can be sure that we will hear similar warnings in response to proposals for lowering incarceration rates, reducing the number of policemen, de-militarizing police departments or even privatizing much or all of what they do. Yet, as Messrs. Stamper and Latzer point out, professional police departments were only invented a century and a half ago, and in 1865 New York incarcerated fewer than 2,000 citizens at any given time, compared with upward of 80,000 today (48 per 100,000 then versus 265 per 100,000 now).Then, as now, societies were kept safe by numerous factors beyond government-sanctioned law enforcement. These range today from the most informal eyes on the street to the more formal million-plus private security guards currently employed in America. Around New York City, business improvement districts pay for security personnel to do foot patrols, so the relevant policy choice is not between government police or no security whatsoever. My own research has also found a strong negative correlation between homicide rates and economic freedom in a society. Free markets let people put their passions into business to work for others' benefit. Restrictions on business, including minimum-wage laws that keep young inner-city residents out of the labor force, are particularly harmful. We need more markets, not more government, to discourage crime. One need not assume that unionized, militarized and unpopular policemen are the only option for keeping Americans safe.RF SIGNAL DETECTOR ( FREQUENCY COUNTER)(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Your questions and comments are greatly appreciated.Monty Henry, Owner (function () { var articleId = fyre.conv.load.makeArticleId(null); fyre.conv.load({}, [{ el: 'livefyre-comments', network: "livefyre.com", siteId: "345939", articleId: articleId, signed: false, collectionMeta: { articleId: articleId, url: fyre.conv.load.makeCollectionUrl(), } }], function() {}); }());

HIGHLIGHT of the hour - Mark has MORE this hour with Barry Latzer on violence in America! - Mark plays a few soundbites from the “Black Lives Matters” protest from Dallas. He talked to a reporter directly after the movement. – Mark Larson has MORE this hour with Barry Latzer about the violence in America. – Mark and Noah talk about the All-Star festivities in San Diego this year. Mark expands on what Dick Enberg has done for the sports community, including his tenor with the Padres. – Why didn’t San Diego erupt after the events in Dallas? Caller Mike has thoughts on scenarios with civilian’s reaction with police officers under certain situations. Why aren’t the police clamping down on the protests? The Mark Larson Show mornings 6-9, on AM 1170 "The Answer".

- Mark Davis talks with Mark Larson on the explosion that wasn’t expected by the police attacker in Dallas. Mark also talks about Obama’s reaction, and what should have been said. – Barry Latzer comes on the show to talk about the spike in crime in Chicago, other parts of the country. Is there evidence that’s its going up in America in general? Is it down in other places? What are the reasons for the rise in crime, and the criminals not worried about new gun laws. Is the crime issue being focused on in Washington? - Mark has MORE this hour with Stephen Moore. – Mark has MORE this hour with Shelley Zimmerman.

Barry Latzer comes on the show to talk about the spike in crime in Chicago, other parts of the country. Is there evidence that its going up in America in general? Is it down in other places? What are the reasons for the rise in crime, and the criminals not worried about new gun laws. Is the crime issue being focused on in Washington?

Professor Barry Latzer sits down with Ben Weingarten of Encounter Books to discuss his new book "The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America." During the interview, Prof. Latzer and Ben discuss a range of topics including Prof. Latzer's difficulty in publishing a book that talks about the correlation between violent crime and race, the link between war and crime, the interesting theory of the inverse relationship between homicide and suicide rates, the surprising lack of correlation between economics and crime, what caused the spike of crime from the late 1960s through the early 1990s and the drastic plummet of rates from the late 1990s to today, the deep question of whether crime is attributable to economics or culture, and what the future of violent crime looks like in America. Read 'The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America': http://tinyurl.com/hor5oz2 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb

HIGHLIGHT of the hour - MORE this hour with Rowan Scarborough. Guest this hour - Barry Latzer. -Obama defends the accords with Iran. -Barry Latzer joins Mark early in the show to talk about his NEW book, "The Rise And Fall Of Violent Crime In America." The Mark Larson Show mornings 6-9, on AM 1170 "The Answer".