Charles Fain Lehman
Person on 2 sites
Fellow at the Manhattan Institute writing on crime, drugs and policing; writes The Causal Fallacy.
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Newsletter: The Causal Fallacy (opens thecausalfallacy.substack.com)
“Why Flock Cameras Aren’t a Panopticon”
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Newsletter: The Causal Fallacy (opens thecausalfallacy.substack.com)
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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That a ban creates a black market is not by itself an argument against the ban. (opens korrents.com)
“What’s fallacious is to argue that this fact necessarily means the prohibition does not “work,” or is not better than legalization.”
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Prohibition reduces how much of a product is consumed rather than merely moving the same consumption underground. (opens korrents.com)
“Quantity consumed under prohibition is almost always smaller than quantity consumed under legalization.”
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Putting people into temporary shelter cuts crime and psychiatric emergencies without waiting for permanent housing to be built. (opens korrents.com)
“It turns out that simply getting people into temporary shelter—often derided by the homelessness-industrial complex as a band-aid—significantly reduces both social and individual harms of unsheltered homelessness.”
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That a ban creates a black market is not by itself an argument against the ban. (opens korrents.com)