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ARTICLE: “Rethink spending on anti-terrorism, report says: Police, mayors say shift more funds to fight crime,” by Mimi Hall, USA Today, 2 October 2008.
I’ve written about this before: the reality that “three strikes” took many off the streets in the 1990s but that now we’re processing more ex-cons than criminals, so an ensuing flood of damaged people back into inner cities, and guess what? Crime inevitably rises, as long predicted by many far-sighted metro police chiefs I’ve interacted with over the past few years.
Add in the shift to anti-terrorism spending, so mandated in our post-9/11 mania, and you have a bad equation, especially with an economic downturn in the making.
This one was too predictable for words: a recalibration of American strategy that brings us back to the world’s more normal trajectory. This is the essential theme of
Great Powers.
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