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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Ed Morrissey: Shredding the Social Compact and Civil Society
Description: At what point does law and order break down to the point where people feel they have no choice but to take matters into their own hands? That question has become acute in New York after the death of a mentally ill felon on the subway who routinely threatened passengers. It has become chronic in other urban centers in America as well—with progressive politicians and prosecutors refusing to charge or incarcerate those who commit crime repeatedly. We’ve seen this movie before—literally. In the 1970s when lax enforcement policies helped stoke record levels of crime, Death W...