Subject: Re: Wise Words from Merrick Garland
BMH: Surely you recognize these giant mobs doing coordinated looting is a new sort of crime. And the frequency and violence has certainly worsened over the last few years, as no cash bail and de=funding the police has produced the entirely predictable result.

The term is street takeovers which began in 1980s, but we had similar things earlier usually centered around gangs.

"Gallup recently came out with their annual poll of American perceptions of crime trends and it’s a real doozy. Gallup has asked Americans how they would describe crime in the United States and locally every year since 2000, and a record 63 percent of respondents described crime in the United States as “Extremely Serious” or “Very Serious” in the most recent survey (conducted in October 2023). Moreover, 77 percent of respondents said there was more crime in the US than there was a year ago, largely on par with recent years."

https://jasher.substack.com/p/...

Read around.