I consider myself middle of the road on police and criminal justice reform issues. As I said in the new episode of the podcast just out this afternoon, high crime rates will snuff out criminal justice reform as surely as night follows day. I'd reiterate a point I've made at other points over the years: no one has a greater interest in low crime rates than liberals and progressives because high crime rates spawn conservative politics. They don't just turn the tide against more humane criminal justice policies. They shift the whole political universe in a more authoritarian, conservative direction. Again, just an observable fact. See Also: "The View" co-host Joy Behar said Wednesday that gun laws would change "once Black people get guns in this country." But with all this said, the narrative emerging out of yesterday's primaries that voters sent a big rebuke to Democrats over law and order politics or that it was a rejection of criminal justice r...
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