Jonathan Simon Refutes Pundit’s Analysis of Oakland Crime Wave

KALW News, The Informant, April 26, 2011 by Rina Palta
http://informant.kalwnews.org/2011/04/debating-what-to-do-about-oaklands-homicide-wave/

Where Johnson falls victim to his own “common sense” is in believing there is a way to deter those bullets today (or the hands firing them). But everything we know from empirical research and the experience of our own failed war on crime is that young men do not put enough stock in the future to be deterred by crackdowns and long prison terms (they already accept those consequences).