
Rising Crime Also Needs a Reckoning
More than anything else, families, local businesses and corporations will refuse to live or invest in urban areas where crime is rampant.
Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. He has written numerous works of fiction and nonfiction and hundreds of essays in major national and global publications. He is the legal analyst for CBS News Radio and appears regularly on cable TV news programs. His most recent book is entitled, “Beyond Proportionality: Israel's Just War in Gaza."

More than anything else, families, local businesses and corporations will refuse to live or invest in urban areas where crime is rampant.

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