Jason Iuliano (Princeton): Why Capital Punishment Is No Punishment at All. From Dissent, Marie Gottschalk on razing the carceral state; and Michael Javen Fortner on going beyond criminal justice reform. The criminal justice system encourages prosecutors to get guilty verdicts by any means necessary and to stand by even the most questionable convictions — can one crusading court stop the lying and cheating? David Frum interviews Barry Latzer, author of The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America. That crime wave you’re hearing about? Try to find it. Why Americans think crime is worse than it is. America is safer than it was decades ago, but homicides are up again in Chicago and cities across the country. This could be the reason America is becoming more violent. One weird trick to reduce crime across America: Pay people more instead of jailing them. There’s a huge generational gap in trust of the justice system.
