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It's possible for retired couples to blend affordable living with low crime rates, if they know where to look. This is true even if "affordable living" means "Social Security only." A monthly budget...

For the past seven years, the most prominent federalcrime-prevention initiative has been the Community OrientedPolicing Services (COPS) program, which gives grants to state andlocal law enforcement agencies to help them reduce crime byincreasing community policing services.

Democrats think the perennial battle over gun control has now swung in their favor. They are vowing to enact new gun control measures, allegedly in response to recent high-profile mass shooting incidents. Of course, we already have hundreds of statutes and regulations on the books relating to firearms. When someone engages in a mass shooting (or any shooting) he violates multiple statutes of the most serious kind. An obvious question

Table 1: Law Enforcement Officers Killed, 1978-94Table 2: Offenses Known to Police Cleared by Arrest, 1972-93Table 3: COPS Grants Do Not Go To Areas Hardest Hit by Crime

Seagull flying over fence with barbwire mesh at sunset Lisa Valder Overview Historically, the roughly 3,000 local jails operating in the United States have received less public and policymaker attention than prisons. 1 But now, the COVID-19 pandemic has put jails—secure correctional facilities, generally operated by county or municipal governments, where people are detained before trial or confined post-conviction for periods usually lasting less than a year—under additional scrutiny. 2 Jai...