On police. we vemoren reduced our incarcern rates. we ve made pretrial detention less likely and we ve entirely stopped enforcing whole categories of laws that certain elected d.a. don t like. what that has done is, is that systematically lowered transaction costs of criminality and it has raisedtr the transactionan costs of criminal enforcement and that s gotten us there s a lot more crimenten and i don t think takes a genius or a criminologist or an economist to o know that . i thinkk it s quite obvious from what we re seeing and as you pointed out that danger is not evenly distributed. it is borne disproportioned. by low income minority communities in and around big cities b that have gotten significantly less safe, less safe. so if younifi livecantly in thet bronx or on the west side of c chicago, your life ishi very, very different i. and if you live in beverly hills or in greenwich, connecticutbe and what i think s happening is that a lot of so-called progressive has haves convin
Outside the capitol earlier today. i want to play just a little bit of our exchange. many innocent people we believe were sucked up and overcharged disproportioned to the people in the past. the same people who did it the people who did it with cortez didn t break windows and storm into the capitol building. we re not talking about people who broke doors and windows. people who did that with cav gnaw knew they shouldn t do that too. they were not turned into domestic terrorists. let s talk more about this. former dhs chief of staff. talked to him yesterday along with today. as i said to elson it seems very much like there s a distortion of reality of what took place. he was very clear about what he believes should happen to the
Well-meaninged authoritarians say we can reduce the amount if we make it illegal. and that s worked out so well so far. [laughter] john: they argue more of it. [applause] like this, you know, cocaine inventing machines, is it the american way? i get than an alarming concepp to people, but if you look at the huge damage that the war on drugs has done, the disproportioned damage to black communities, students lives ruined, the costs are huge, and it s not working. heroin is cheaper now than it was 30 years ago. john: nsa spying. when the nsa spying story first broke, i upset libertarians by saying i was not that upset. i figured that my enemies already had all the information. i mean, my neighbor was stealing my e-mail of the year, google, facebook had the information, and i posted a list of a hundred things that government does that upset me more than data mining,