America’s Real Injustice: Under-Incarceration

The following is converted from a speech delivered to the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University as part of Young America Foundation’s Logan Family lecture series on December 6, 2021.

Criminal gangs are looting stores all over the West Coast. Violent crime is on the rise all over the country. Assault is up. Rape has spiked 20% in recent years, according to the FBI. And the number of homicides jumped 30% in just one year from 2019 to 2020, according to the FBI and CDC. That’s the largest increase in at least 115 years and possibly ever.