The Crime Spike in the Sixties

Before the sixties, crime policy in america had been mostly reform minded. The leniency put, in some cases, put norway to shame a. For along, the line on the left was, you're over reacting. Crime is falling. Why are you obsessed with this? And that was a totally fair cratique. But now we have no policies that could get us there. That wouldn't be worse than every one giving up their car. It's like saying, zero traffic deaths is the ideal, yes, correct. But to date, we haveno policies that could getting us there. We did not need to punish people harder. A lot of it has just gone