Charles Fain Lehman – Urban Crime, Police Misconduct and the Drug Crisis
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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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”
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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| 0:46.5 | Brown University and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute which sponsors the |
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| 0:53.0 | And it's my pleasure to be talking today with Charles Fain layman, |
| 0:57.5 | who is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, |
| 1:00.9 | writes largely about policing and public safety issues, |
| 1:04.6 | although not exclusively so. |
| 1:06.4 | Has a background in journalism came to MI |
| 1:10.3 | from the Free Beacon, Washington Free Beacon, |
| 1:13.2 | and has published in a number of notable outlets |
| 1:17.2 | like the Wall Street Journal, National Review, |
| 1:18.9 | and so on about crime policing and related issues. So welcome to the show. |
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