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<title><![CDATA[Charles Lehman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/40276.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Charles Lehman]]></description><category domain="40276">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Lefty Prosecutors Have a Crime Problem All Their Own]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/philadelphia-district-attorney-larry-krasner-progressive-prosecutors?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner's scandal is just the latest in a long line.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of Flock]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/MEn6S</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Police cameras can help make the criminal-justice system both fairer and less punitive'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'if we let them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did the Murders Stop in Baltimore?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/baltimore-crime-rate-drop?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The number of murders fell to a 60-year low after city leaders finally decided to start taking violence seriously enough, writes Charles Fain Lehman.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's a Pattern: Bail Laws Release Danger Onto Streets]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/05/11/opinion/crime-revolves-around-recidivists/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Another New Yorker was made the victim of the city's revolving-door criminal justice system last week.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anti-Americanism Is a Disease]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/articles/charles-fain-lehman/anti-americanism-vs-patriotism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Think what you will about Donald Trump; no one can deny his flair. Take, for example, a segment of his State of the Union speech earlier this year.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Build More Prisons]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/build-more-prisons?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The case for incarceration]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Cities Want To Be Great Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/americas-cities-want-to-be-great-again?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week's election showed that urban voters want sane, smart policies that address the issues they care most about.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/legalizing-sports-gambling-was-a-huge-mistake/ar-AA1r2DLq</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, millions of Americans watched football. They cheered, they ate, and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'more than ever'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'they gambled. The American Gaming Association expects $35 billion in bets to be placed on NFL games in 2024, about one-third more than last year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s total.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Has an Adderall Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-downer-about-uppers</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Adderall is America's new legal drug of choice. Is it fueling the drug crisis?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fentanyl Crisis Is Worsening Under Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/thepost/the-fentanyl-crisis-is-worsening-under-joe-biden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Willie Horton Effect, Reprise]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/on-policing-progressives-make-a-willie-horton-argument</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After Tyre Nichols's death, decarceration advocates make policy arguments based on visceral-but-rare examples'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a tactic they had long decried.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yes, Bail Reform Has Increased Crime]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/new-yorks-bail-reform-has-increased-crime</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) quietly dropped a bombshell. For months, the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has avoided releasing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' much-needed data on individuals who were arraigned in New York before lawmakers passed bail reform. But'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' newly available data'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Evidence for the Ferguson Effect]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/new-evidence-connects-police-protests-and-rising-violent-crime</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recent studies support the existence of the Ferguson Effect]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Left Learns the Hard Way on Crime]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2021/12/23/victims-of-crime-and-their-own-policies-liberals-learn-the-hard-way/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It must have come as a shock to Philadelphia Democratic Rep.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Mary Gay Scanlon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' when, in the middle of a sunny Wednesday afternoon, two armed men ordered her out of her Acura and drove off, taking her purse and government-issued phone with them.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Can't We Talk About the Murder Wave?]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/policy/why-cant-we-talk-about-the-murder-wave/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two years in, pols and media still deny crisis, dodge role of defund and decarceration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Genealogy of Woke Capital]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/the-wokeification-of-the-business-world</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From compliance to diversity]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's Police Abolition Fantasyland]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/review-of-a-world-without-police-by-geo-maher</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new book distills the problem with the Left's anti-police imaginings.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Cops Are Quitting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/why-cops-are-quitting</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Police officers no longer feel that they have the public's support.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressive Policies Won't Stop the Crime Wave]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/progressive-policies-wont-stop-the-crime-wave</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An approach to crime-fighting that scorns policing and incarceration relies on empirical and conceptual errors.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beat Cops Cut Crime]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/how-police-presence-maintains-public-order</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new study explores how police presence maintains public order.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[4 in 5 Black Americans Want Same or More Police Presence]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/national-security/four-in-five-black-americans-want-same-or-more-cop-presence-in-neighborhood/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over 80 percent of black Americans want the police to spend as much or more time in their neighborhoods as they currently do, new polling from Gallup conducted last month finds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Wages of Woke--How Robin DiAngelo Got Rich]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/culture/the-wages-of-woke-2/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dr. Robin DiAngelo, the bestselling author of White Fragility, claims to believe in accountability. DiAngelo used to list the racial justice organizations she donates to as part of her extensive accountability statement, including a monthly land rent paid to the Native American tribe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Curious Case of America's Suicide Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/issues/the-curious-case-of-americas-suicide-crisis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every year since the turn of the millennium, the number of Americans dying by suicide has risen, with nearly 50,000 deaths in 2018 alone.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Josh Hawley Versus the Machine]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/politics/josh-hawley-versus-the-machine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lehman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you were looking for a David to the multi-billion-dollar, big-tech Goliath, you could do worse than Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.).]]></description>
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