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Treating Drug Trafficking Like a Security Threat Matters at Home

For decades, the United States has responded to drug trafficking primarily through domestic law enforcement and public health frameworks. Those approaches matter, but they hit a wall when drug supply chains are protected by political power abroad. At that point, local enforcement is reacting to the problem, not shaping it. ...
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Sexual Assault at California’s Colleges and Universities: A Policy and Public Safety Issue

California Campus Data Clery data from California’s largest universities illustrate the scale of the issue: UC Berkeley and UCLA each reported 61 rapes in 2023. When adjusted for student population, this equates to rates of 184.5 per 100,000 students at UC Berkeley and 164 per 100,000 at UCLA—approximately four to six times the statewide ...
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What’s Killing Our Kids? It’s Not Alcohol.

Four decades later, the promised benefits are difficult to find. In California, arrests of underage drivers for driving under the influence are exceedingly rare. In 2024, just 45 juveniles were arrested for driving under the influence—a figure that has remained consistently low for years. Rather than eliminating youth drinking, the ...
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Bearing False Witness

Those limits grew out of lived experience and a deep Christian faith shaped by the Protestant Reformation. The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments reflect that inheritance. They function as a kind of secular catechism, a rule book governing our system of justice. This year, John Grisham stepped away ...
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Thien Ho – The People vs. The Golden State Killer

Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho joins us this week to discuss his terrific new book chronicling his role prosecuting the elusive Golden State Killer. We talk about how his upbringing fleeing Communism in Vietnam fuels his passion for seeking justice for crime victims, the many challenges in prosecuting Joseph ...
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Ni Estudian – Ni Trabajan – On California’s Poor Education System and Its Consequences for Public Safety

The prospects for California’s high school grads are not good as they face a shrinking job market and a correspondingly high youth unemployment rate. In Latin America, they are known as the “Nini’s” – out of school and out of work. According to a November 2025  LA Times article, a ...
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Rejecting the Evidence of Your Eyes and Ears

There’s an adage about crime statistics in progressive political and academic circles that can be summed up as the “perception exceeds reality school.” Put another way, Americans are simply wrong to be afraid of crime in the view of these so-called experts. Recently, the New York Times criticized President Trump ...
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Naval strikes on drug rings may bring cases of “Smuggler’s Blues” and “Sugar Highs”

In 1999, just 703 people died from fentanyl overdoses. For the next ten years, those deaths remained relatively low. hitting 2,628 in 2012. Yet from 2013 to 2023, fentanyl killed 376,197 Americans – a number roughly equivalent to the entire population of Cleveland Ohio. This doesn’t factor in the over ...
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Read about San José's transformation under Mayor Mahan

San José Mayor Shows Market-Based Ideas Can Improve Urban Quality of Life

Major cities in California have decayed in recent years as elected officials and city bureaucrats have doubled down on a mix of government mandates, excessive regulations, high fees and lax enforcement of public safety laws that have created an unattractive quality of life driving away businesses, jobs, tax revenue and ...
California

Watch Tim Anaya discuss California’s crime challenges with “America’s Criminologist”

Watch PRI vice president of marketing and communications Tim Anaya discuss California’s ongoing crime challenges and his book The California Left Coast Survivor’s Guide on “America’s Criminologist with Dr. Currie Myers” on KMET Radio in San Bernardino.
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Treating Drug Trafficking Like a Security Threat Matters at Home

For decades, the United States has responded to drug trafficking primarily through domestic law enforcement and public health frameworks. Those approaches matter, but they hit a wall when drug supply chains are protected by political power abroad. At that point, local enforcement is reacting to the problem, not shaping it. ...
Blog

Sexual Assault at California’s Colleges and Universities: A Policy and Public Safety Issue

California Campus Data Clery data from California’s largest universities illustrate the scale of the issue: UC Berkeley and UCLA each reported 61 rapes in 2023. When adjusted for student population, this equates to rates of 184.5 per 100,000 students at UC Berkeley and 164 per 100,000 at UCLA—approximately four to six times the statewide ...
Blog

What’s Killing Our Kids? It’s Not Alcohol.

Four decades later, the promised benefits are difficult to find. In California, arrests of underage drivers for driving under the influence are exceedingly rare. In 2024, just 45 juveniles were arrested for driving under the influence—a figure that has remained consistently low for years. Rather than eliminating youth drinking, the ...
Blog

Bearing False Witness

Those limits grew out of lived experience and a deep Christian faith shaped by the Protestant Reformation. The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments reflect that inheritance. They function as a kind of secular catechism, a rule book governing our system of justice. This year, John Grisham stepped away ...
California

Thien Ho – The People vs. The Golden State Killer

Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho joins us this week to discuss his terrific new book chronicling his role prosecuting the elusive Golden State Killer. We talk about how his upbringing fleeing Communism in Vietnam fuels his passion for seeking justice for crime victims, the many challenges in prosecuting Joseph ...
Blog

Ni Estudian – Ni Trabajan – On California’s Poor Education System and Its Consequences for Public Safety

The prospects for California’s high school grads are not good as they face a shrinking job market and a correspondingly high youth unemployment rate. In Latin America, they are known as the “Nini’s” – out of school and out of work. According to a November 2025  LA Times article, a ...
Blog

Rejecting the Evidence of Your Eyes and Ears

There’s an adage about crime statistics in progressive political and academic circles that can be summed up as the “perception exceeds reality school.” Put another way, Americans are simply wrong to be afraid of crime in the view of these so-called experts. Recently, the New York Times criticized President Trump ...
Blog

Naval strikes on drug rings may bring cases of “Smuggler’s Blues” and “Sugar Highs”

In 1999, just 703 people died from fentanyl overdoses. For the next ten years, those deaths remained relatively low. hitting 2,628 in 2012. Yet from 2013 to 2023, fentanyl killed 376,197 Americans – a number roughly equivalent to the entire population of Cleveland Ohio. This doesn’t factor in the over ...
Blog

Read about San José's transformation under Mayor Mahan

San José Mayor Shows Market-Based Ideas Can Improve Urban Quality of Life

Major cities in California have decayed in recent years as elected officials and city bureaucrats have doubled down on a mix of government mandates, excessive regulations, high fees and lax enforcement of public safety laws that have created an unattractive quality of life driving away businesses, jobs, tax revenue and ...
California

Watch Tim Anaya discuss California’s crime challenges with “America’s Criminologist”

Watch PRI vice president of marketing and communications Tim Anaya discuss California’s ongoing crime challenges and his book The California Left Coast Survivor’s Guide on “America’s Criminologist with Dr. Currie Myers” on KMET Radio in San Bernardino.
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