The Destruction Zones aren’t working.
Via FOX News
Following the crisis in America’s cities involving the police and minorities, calls for justice reform have become even more frequent than have interventions from the Department of Justice.
Tragically, a surge in violent victimizations has swept across several American cities in the past two weeks. This may well be a reflection of what happens in the public square when the forces of order are weakened or demoralized.
Reform may well be necessary. Though not all the cases that inflamed the crowds were, in fact, instances of injustice, the application of needless force has often produced a sense of oppression for inner-city citizens, and justice is the loser.
Data from every major report show profound declines in crime in the U.S. over the past two decades, accompanied with sharp increases in incarceration. In this sense, our court system has worked. But the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice has shown troubling signs it hopes to use racial politics to prevail over the courts and public safety.
Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote, “A revolt of the judiciary is more dangerous to a government than any other, even a military revolt. Now and then it uses the military to suppress disorder, but it defends itself every day by means of the courts.” The fear is that some in the judiciary, guided by radical theory, will “revolt” against the police on the street.