America's Legal Order Begins to Fray

Amid the escalation of violent crime are signs of a breakdown of basic respect for law enforcement.

After two decades of the most remarkable crime drop in U.S. history, law enforcement has come to this: “I’m deliberately not getting involved in things I would have in the 1990s and 2000s,” an emergency-services officer in New York City tells me. “I won’t get out of my car for a reasonable-suspicion stop; I will if there’s a violent felony committed in my presence.”

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This piece originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal