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Did Public School Closures Cause the Carjacking Crisis?
“This startling increase [in carjackings] stemmed from a complex and still somewhat mysterious set of factors, but prominent among them, at least according to cops in the Carjacking Interdiction Unit, were protracted school closings, which fueled truancy and juvenile crime,” reported Jamie Thompson for The Atlantic last week.
“Inside the Carjacking Crisis,” reported Jamie Thompson for The Atlantic last week.
Occasionally, if only accidentally, the same progressive media doomsayers responsible for giving us such hyperbolic excesses as “Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini” and “Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’” give us just a soupçon of hard-hitting journalism and unflinching policy review.
Without regard to the usual host of electoral college concerns, Thompson explored in-depth a topic largely off-limits to major media outlets in an election year — and aren’t all election years?
A mix of statistics and anecdotal evidence, “Inside the Carjacking Crisis” is a bipartisan must-read.
Thompson starts with an unassailable assertion: “In 2020, the killing of George Floyd transformed the politics of policing in America.”