What Charles Fain Lehman thinks about government

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Fellow at the Manhattan Institute working on crime, drugs and disorder, and author of the newsletter The Causal Fallacy. Writes in favour of enforcement and prohibition on empirical rather than moral grounds.

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1. 21 Aug 2025

   Our readingCriminal justice reform has already diverted nearly everyone who can be diverted, so further decarceration means releasing people charged with violence.

   Their wordsYears of reform mean that almost everyone who can be diverted from Rikers already is.

   ↗Prison Abolition in New York?thecausalfallacy.substack.com