NYC Subway: Where Safety is Job No. 319 or So

I'm excited to announce a new acquisition for my New York Times museum! It's an article from the March 24 edition titled, "What Would Make the Subway Feel Safer? Experts Have 5 Suggestions." Appropriating from mid-20th-century works, when the streets ran with blood, none of the "experts" suggested locking criminals up. (Studies show that DOESN'T WORK.) Encouragingly, only two experts suggested making subways safer by reducing their carbon footprint. The motif of the work is the idea that District Attorney Alvin Bragg's declared refusal to prosecute offenders for any but the most infamous ...

America’s Black Male Problem

Since May 25, 2020, America has crucified itself over a single statistic: Blacks are two to three times more likely to die at the hands of the police than are whites, making up 25 ...

The Floyd Effect

With elections a few days away, crime statistics are finally being widely discussed in the press. So...I’m not going to pass up one last chance to deluge you with new graphs ...

Dems to Voters: Why Do You Care About Crime?

Last week in New York City, career criminal Argenis Rivera punched a woman who was pushing her 2-year-old in a stroller, then began choking her, screaming that she was a "white ...

Triggered

With an election coming up, various well-known Democrats haven’t been able to keep themselves from arguing with me on Twitter about crime statistics, which tends to be an ...

Triggered

Sadly, mass shootings are back in the news with the second Dylann Roof-style white-racist-on-black-innocents mass shooting of the past seven years, this one not in a Charleston ...

The Pandemic Made Me Do It!

With the mind-boggling rise in violent crime since the Democrats turned all policing policies over to BLM, the media have become obsessed with convincing us that it's all the ...

Cracking Skulls for a Good Cause

It takes an extreme level of ethical retardation to walk up to someone who is not threatening you, punch them in the face, and claim it’s in self-defense. But that’s exactly ...

The Resurrection of English Murder

George Orwell was the first to mourn the decline of English murder. In his famous 1946 essay he lamented that modern forensic medicine and the easing of divorce meant there would ...

Tony Blair and George W. Bush

The Three Stooges of the Iraq War

OK, the tenth anniversary of the worst foreign blunder Uncle Sam has ever committed has come and gone, but the post-invasion headlines remain the same: Explosions in Baghdad ...

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King’s Golden Legacy of Nonviolence

On Friday during a speech in Florida, slain civil-rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.'s far fatter, balder, and lighter-skinned son urged Americans to break free from their ...

George Zimmerman

What if Zimmerman Walks Free?

Three months ago, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Handcuffed, taken in and interrogated, Zimmerman told police ...

Chris Rock

The Curse of King Martin

Rich Lowry owes John Derbyshire an apology. When Lowry fired Derbyshire from National Review for writing a “racist” column here at Taki’s, he took particular ...

A Clockwork Orange County

If all you ever did was watch TV—which is all that many Americans ever do—you’d think that Orange County, CA is so squeaky-clean, it actually squeaks. It’s where ...


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