The ‘superpredator’ scare

Barry Krisberg interviewed by The New York Times Retro Report, April 6, 2014

“This country went into a moral panic about ‘superpredators.’ But the calculations were wrong. They made it up…. It was a myth, and, unfortunately, it was a myth that some academics jumped onto. The fear of the ‘superpredator’ led to a tremendous number of laws and policies that we’re just now recovering from.”