The issue of charging juveniles—generally defined as people under 18—as adults if they commit serious felonies has become heated, especially in San Francisco, where voters fired Chesa Boudin for being soft on crime, and Mayor Breed hired Brooke Jenkins to replace him.

I think I’m not the only American who, when hearing of “racial disparities” in police stops and arrests, thinks that maybe the reason more Black people are detained by police is because they commit more crimes and engage in more suspicious behavior than White, Latino or Asian people.

We’ve gotten a spate of new members in the last few weeks, after a period of relatively restricted growth. I always try to figure these things out. Why would people be reaching out to us lately? What’s going on? I have my theories.

The Atlanta Police Department has a plan to build a new $90 million “Public Safety Training Center” for their 2,000 police officers. The city argues that the facility will achieve a number of goals:

I am so impressed by Brooke Jenkins, San Francisco’s new District Attorney. I watched news coverage of her walking through the Tenderloin, and her statements regarding drug dealers were inspirational. She condemned her predecessor, Chesa Boudin, for letting dealers go scot free, which resulted in them returning to the same street corners where they could peddle their poison drugs that were killing people. She promised to crack down on drug dealers, and pledged to consider “revoking” plea deals Boudin made that let so many of these retailers of death off the hook.