A Reality Check on Crime

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In his younger and more vulnerable years, Jonah had a minor obsession with criminology (for no reason in particular, he says). Today, he rekindles that old passion by talking to Shawn Bushway, a scholar at the University at Albany and the RAND Corporation, about the history of crime in America. The pair begins by exploring whether crime is currently on the rise, before launching into a supremely wonky discussion of cities, statistics, and the root causes of criminal behavior. Is the broken windows theory on its way out? Has America made any real progress on race? And why are Democrats still talking about defunding the police? Show Notes: - Shawn’s page at RAND - Racial disparities in criminal justice - Is racial progress a myth? - Trends and patterns in interracial marriage - Marvin Wolfgang - LBJ’s crime commission - “The Racist Roots of Campus Policing” - Only 25 percent of Americans favor decreased police spending Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.2	Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?
0:18.0	Hello
0:27.5	Greetings, your listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant Constance
0:31.1	Fuck you by dispatch and dispatch media come check us out go to the dispatch.com to see all our our great free stuff
0:37.8	And then maybe you'll decide to become a paid member of the dispatch community, which would be awesome for everybody
0:42.5	Okay, so today it's kind of rare on the Remnant where we have someone on who I literally don't know just met him
0:52.4	this morning on the on the interwebs we had some problems with some connectivity issues, but I've wanted to do
1:01.5	a sort of an explainer
1:04.0	episode on crime stuff for a while now and we went casting about for
1:09.4	a
1:11.4	criminologist dumb enough to come on this podcast just kidding
1:14.8	and
1:16.8	To find the criminologist that we wanted to talk to and I used to I used to be and as we'll talk about
1:22.0	I'm sure I used to be pretty invested in a lot of this stuff in the 90s when I was a young policy known at the American Enterprise Institute
1:29.7	But I've not followed sort of criminology in a while and so I just have a lot of questions and I thought it would be good to do is just sort of
1:36.4	An explainer on the state of crime. So we got Sean Bushway. He's currently a senior policy researcher at the Rand
1:43.5	corporation and
1:46.9	And he's on leave from
1:50.2	Mia
1:52.9	Correct help me here John the university at Albany SUNY. Okay. I know it was one of these things
1:57.8	It's like you have to say the Ohio State University or whatever. So I didn't want to get it's at not
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