richvargus

Dr. Richard A. Vargus's novel, Timeto Return Law and Order to the American People , is not simply a policy analysis; it is a heated argument in favor of aggressive policing and a harsh criticism of the political powers that, according to the author, have thwarted America's greatest crime reduction achievement, the 1990s. Vargus, once an insider in law enforcement, takes the history of Stop, Question, and Frisk (SQF) in New York City as the main case study to dissect the dangerous issue that is often intertwined with black and white actions of good crime prevention and civil right infringement. The Anatomy of a Crime Miracle In the first chapter, the author praises the decade-long crime decline in America, from the 1990s to the 2010s, as a miracle. For twenty years, NYC that once was the epicenter of crime and drugs eventually turned into the safest metropolitan area in the whole country. He directly links this turnaround to the enforcement methods used during the time of Ma...