The Uncomfortable Facts About Cop Shootings

When Dexter Reed died in a shootout with Chicago police on March 21, the incident was quickly grafted onto a narrative that began in 2014 after a policeman killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. - namely, that the U.S. faces an epidemic of violence by unbridled cops who do not believe black lives matter. "Killing of Dexter Reed raises questions about Chicago police reform. ‘The message is, go in guns blazing,'" blared a headline in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Porous Southern Border Means Crime Without Boundaries

When President Biden's supporters attacked him for describing the man who allegedly murdered Georgia co-ed Laken Reilly as an "illegal," they shined a light on one of the most contested words in American politics.