What to Do When Brute Force Fails
Just because engineers say it doesn’t mean it’s true. UCLA Public Policy Professor Mark Kleiman explained that the title of his new book, When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment, comes from an old builders’ kernel: “When brute force fails, you are not using enough.” “That has been the slogan of our criminal justice system for roughly the last 35 years,” Kleiman said. “We are at the limits of what can be done by brute force.” Kleiman, who recalled growing up in Baltimore when …
