Why Is Crime Rising?

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Sharkey spent years studying the causes for the national decline in crime that took place from the 1990s to the 2010s. A Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton, and the author of Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence, he warned that it would prove unsustainable to rely on aggressive policing and mass incarceration to keep the peace in America's cities. Now, he is ideally placed to answer why violent crime has surged in the past year and what to do about that. In this week’s conversation, Patrick Sharkey and Yascha Mounk discuss the recent rise in violent crime, how this trend hits disadvantaged communities the hardest, and why neither defunding the police nor returning to the old model of keeping the peace offers a real solution. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: podcast@persuasion.community Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John T. Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.4	Attitudes about race have changed, but the material conditions of black Americans relative to white Americans have not improved much since the end of the 1960s. Wealth and income and earnings and unemployment for both whites and blacks.
0:50.3	These trends fluctuate over time, but the gap has been remarkably persistent.
0:56.2	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. I'm quite proud of my record on predicting elements of the coronavirus pandemic.
1:12.0	Two examples. In March 2020 I wrote an article called
1:16.6	cancel everything in which I called on employers not to have the white-collar
1:22.1	staff come into the office in which I called on big events like concerts and sports to be temporarily shut down.
1:30.0	It was one of the first articles for full duty making that case and it had a real impact.
1:36.4	A few months later, the newspapers were full of stories about how the economy would never
1:40.9	be the same as it was how nobody is going to go to a party or bar ever again.
1:46.7	At that time I predicted that we might end up with a roaring 20s that social life would return and anybody who has spent time in big cities in the United States or in Europe over the last months
1:58.5	the places where thankfully a significant percentage of the population has access to the scene, can I think see that those predictions turned out to be right.
2:07.0	Now, to hold myself accountable, I should also be up front about the one important area in which I was overly optimistic.
2:16.3	And that is that I thought that once the scene were readily available, we would get to
2:21.5	about 75 or 80 percent of people who take up the vaccine and with the variant of the
2:28.3	coronavirus that was then in circulation that would have been enough to reach herd immunity.
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