Crime and Punishment 2022

Crime and Punishment 2022
The Criminal Courts Building and district attorney's office in New York on July 1, 2021. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images
Marc Ruskin
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The eruption of mass violent crime over the past weeks—shooters in Uvalde, Texas, in Laguna Woods, California, in Buffalo, New York—evidences a predictable escalation, an inexorable incremental evolution, of an environment, an atmosphere that fails to discourage criminal activity, developed in large part by a new breed of privately financed progressive prosecutors, entrenched in major urban centers from coast to coast.

Marc Ruskin
Marc Ruskin
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Marc Ruskin, a 27-year veteran of the FBI, is a regular contributor and the author of “The Pretender: My Life Undercover for the FBI.” He served on the legislative staff of U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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