Sorry, crimesnotfalling, fighting private-sector antisemitism and other commentary

The left claims crime’s declining, yet “the nation’s largest crime survey says otherwise,” corrects Jeffrey H.Anderson in The Wall Street Journal.

Indeed, the just-released National Crime Victimization Survey “finds no statistically significant evidence” that violent crime or property crime is dropping.Rather, a crime “spike” is “concentrated in urban areas,” where “leftist prosecutors have gained a foothold.” There,violent crime rose 40% from 2019 to 2023; property crime, up 26%.

And the survey doesn’t even measure “rampant shoplifting.” For numerous technical reasons, such “findings are far more reliable” than the FBI figures the left cites.And they make clear the urban spike isn’t abating.

“If we insist on rerunning the failed social experiments of the 1960s and ’70s, we should expect similar results.”The Anti-Defamation League has joined a suit against Intel, taking the war on antisemitism to the private sector, cheers Commentary’s Seth Mandel.The complaint states that “two Intel executives began makingpublic anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas social-media posts” soon after the Oct.

7 attacks.One of those execs then became the supervisor of an Israeli employee, who complained, only to be fired.

Intel argues it has alongstanding culture of diversity and inclusion.” Mandel retorts that “DEI and the culture it produces are precisely what we’re seeing” at “universities across the country, where Jewish students’ civil rights areopenly violated.” Hope this lawsuit prompts “major private sector companies and groups like the ADL” to “confront the harm baked into any institution that adopts DEI.” “Last week’s rate cut” by the Federal Reserve “has many homeowners, renters, and those who would join their ranks hoping that lower mortgage rates will result, easing the housing crunch,” argues Reason’s J.D.Tuccille. But “ensuring that enough homes exist to satisfy that demand requires red...