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...decades: Preschool works. In research reaching back to the 1960s and confirmed again and again in Michigan, Illinois, New York, Connecticut and elsewhere, we've seen overwhelming evidence that students who attended one year of preschool are less likely to be held back a grade, require special education or commit crimes, and more likely to score well on standardized tests, to graduate high school, and even to own their own homes...
...that's a shame. Why, with all the unknowns in education, won't we get behind a proven program like pre-K? Instead of spending hundreds of millions more dollars researching it, let's commit to it, before another generation of four-year-olds misses...
Perhaps police are more likely to search minorities because they commit a disproportionate number of crimes. William Tucker makes this point in an article in the conservative Weekly Standard. According to the latest federal figures, blacks are 12% of the U.S. population but account for 27% of all sexual-assault convictions, 66% of all robbery convictions and 38% of all fraud and embezzlement convictions. Yet it seems unlikely that a traffic officer who searches a black motorist on the shoulder of a highway believes he is stopping a robbery, rape or embezzlement...
...involvement in crime. If you're trying to measure racism, isn't it better to compare police stops to actual black involvement in crime than to the mere representation of blacks in the population? The elephant in the living room--and the tragedy in black America--is that we commit crimes vastly out of proportion to our numbers in society...
...darkness that allowed the gunman to commit his crime unobserved proved Lees' savior. She was able to lie undiscovered in the thorny scrub as the man searched for her with a torch and a dog. Now the hunter is the hunted: more than 100 police, of a Northern Territory force of fewer than 1,000, are searching for the gunman, but the area they must cover?a million sq. km?is daunting. "We're looking for a needle in a haystack," says Commander Fields, "and you don't get a haystack much bigger than the Northern Territory...