The Politics of Permissive Chaos - by Michael Smith

From immigration enforcement to urban crime, selective law enforcement overseen by unserious elected officials has become a tool of intimidation rather than governance. - Michael Smith

If it seems our civil society is a bit less civil these days, you are not wrong.

• What feels new is not simply a rise in crime—violent crime has fluctuated before—but the quality of the disorder and the brazen indifference to consequence that now accompanies it. 
• Increasingly, crimes are committed in full view of the public, often recorded on smartphones, with little apparent fear of law enforcement, prosecution, or social sanction...