Ingraham: The Fact Is ‘Tough on Crime’ Worked When We Had Them

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INGRAHAM: “We have seen what more permissive approaches to crime did in the 1960s when social upheaval plus the spread of recreational drug use gave way to urban riots and rising crime. The violent crime rate in the '60s increased 126% between 1960 and 1970, that's according to the pretty liberal Brennan Center for Justice. But the fact is, tough-on-crime policies worked when we had them and they were attacked, however, as racist and unjust, and then they were ultimately ditched in cities like New York. Crime went up. Now, leftists may have been pleasing in their conduct, thrilled — they were thrilling the faculty at Yale and Colombia Law School when they pushed cities to pursue so-called bail reform, ending stop and frisk, but it’s nothing but doing the opposite of what most people want. They are putting criminals back onto the streets. And the anti-law and order crowd is so fanatical, they're moving full-steam ahead. In fact, today Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail completely. This as Chicago is still in the grips of violent crime.”