Lib-tards Confused by Justice

Our friend Heather Mac Donald on X (formerly twitter):

• New York Times reporter Fox Butterfield amused conservative crime analysts in the late 1990s and early 2000s by writing articles under headlines such as: 
• “Crime Keeps on Falling, but Prisons Keep on Filling.” 
• “Prison Population Growing Although Crime Rate Drops.” 
• “Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction.”
• To Butterfield, a simultaneous crime drop and incarceration increase was a paradox. The possibility that locking up criminals would help lower crime was all but inconceivable. 
• The liberal policy world is still in the grips of what become known as the Butterfield Fallacy. An article this week in Stateline, a left-leaning news website, puzzles over the fact that low-level arrests are rising “despite national crime declines.” Such contrasting trend lines are precisely what Broken Windows theory predicts. Criminals are polymorphous offenders; if they break one law, they will likely break others as well. Because they commit low-level offenses more frequently than homicide, robbery, and other felonies, focusing on misdemeanor crime is an efficient way to reduce all crime, besides providing the orderly streets that the public cares the most about.

We have a feeling she is going to have plenty of material to write about as the political winds shifted this past election day and "progressive" islamo-communists infest institutions.