Charles Fain Lehman – Urban Crime, Police Misconduct and the Drug Crisis

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0:00 New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s controversial decision to post the National Guard in the subway

4:25 Charles defends pretrial detentions …

12:45 … but he sees the problem with long pretrial detentions

19:05 The ongoing—and occasionally halting—recovery from 2020

23:21 Are any major cities doing law enforcement and criminal justice right?

29:52 Charles: I’ve seen no evidence that police unions abet misconduct

34:38 Charles’s unsexy solutions for decreasing police misconduct

38:00 Our present drift toward social toleration of drug use

43:40 The perils of legalized sports gambling

49:57 Charles: Long-term, medically assisted treatment is the best way to get addiction rates down

53:06 Are we under-counting hate crimes?

Recorded March 22, 2024

Links and Readings

Charles’s Substack, The Causal Fallacy

Charles’s City Journal piece, “Yes, New York’s Bail Reform Has Increased Crime”

Charles and co-author Elias Neibart’s Manhattan Institute report, “Is Less Always More? The Unintended Consequences of New York State’s Parole Reform”

Glenn’s conversation with Matthew Martens

Matthew Martens’s book, Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal

Charles and co-author Reihan Salam’s Atlantic piece, “We’re Underfunding the Police”

Tom Wolfe’s book, The Bonfire of the Vanities

Charles’s Substack post, “The Police Unions Puzzle”

Glenn’s conversation with Philip K. Howard

Philip K. Howard’s book, Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions

Charles’s City Journal piece, “Combat the Drug Crisis”

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