Barry Latzer

Jan 18, 2025 | businessandamerica.com | Barry Latzer

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Jan 18, 2025 | nationalreview.com | Barry Latzer

Mar 15, 2024 | wsj.com | Barry Latzer

This month I participated in what’s now considered an unusual event: an ideologically diverse criminal-justice conference at the University of California, Berkeley. Two Berkeley Law professors organized it: John Yoo , a former George W. Bush administration official, and Chesa Boudin , the San Francisco district attorney who was removed from office in a 2022 recall. Their intention in convening diverse speakers was twofold: to make things interesting and potentially to bridge divides.

Jan 19, 2024 | city-journal.org | Rafael A. Mangual |Barry Latzer

Two weeks ago, the Daily Caller obtained and released an internal document from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding violence prevention.

Nov 20, 2023 | livemint.com | Barry Latzer

Two decades later, that liberal ideal had collapsed thanks to the largest violent crime wave in the 20th century and the discovery that few rehabilitation programs worked. “Nothing works" became the new mantra and incapacitation the new rallying cry of penology. Though crime has declined dramatically since the early 1990s, most analysts think that our get-tough policies, such as harsher sentencing schemes, are mainly responsible.