Jonah Goldberg: Crime follows national trends in the U.S. But it requires local solutions (via latimesopinion)
We live in a moment when everyone seems compelled to talk about national trends and systemic problems. There are plenty of reasons for this.
Still, the truth remains that even in those cases, most national problems nonetheless manifest themselves locally and therefore lend themselves to local solutions.If you’ve been to New York City recently, you’ll have seen drugstores turned into fortresses against shoplifters, with toothpaste and deodorant
of all shoplifting arrests. As a group, they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times, according to Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell. Moreover, only 18 department stores and seven chain pharmacies accounted for a fifth of all complaints.
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