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San Francisco’s Quality-of-Life Toll
The high cost of low-level crime in the City by the Bay.
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Grievance Proxies
The College Board plans to introduce a new “adversity score” as a backdoor to racial quotas in college admissions.
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In Search of the Lost Nation
Michael Brendan Dougherty explores the meaning of fatherhood in Ireland and America.
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Spring 2019
The SPOTLIGHT
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Community Policing, Rightly Understood
From the beginning, the crime-fighting revolution, starting in 1990s New York, was based on a cooperative relationship between cops and the public.
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How New York Became Safe: The Full Story
A citywide effort, involving many agencies and institutions, helped restore order.
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