“If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.” IfsHas BeensStatesDoneOpinionSupportGoneRightsCourtSupremeRadicalAssumptionSupreme CourtPublic OpinionStates RightsDevolution Author:James Q. Wilson
“Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.” PeopleKnowsMeanDifferentStatesCommunityUnitedTalkingUnited StatesCongressDifferent ThingsSlogans Author:James Q. Wilson
“During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.” YearsPersonsStatesFiveFourThousandHighestDollarsPrisonRateCommittedEducationalIncomeChineseCaliforniaProportionNeighborhoodUnemploymentLowestHousingSan Francisco1960sAttainmentAncestryTuberculosisUnemployment RateChinatown Author:James Q. Wilson
