Thinking Outside the Box About Crime

Bill Bennet, the dude who moralized on high while blowing $8 million gambling (and worked in the administration with the career criminals pictured), has proclaimed that if we really want to get serious about crime, we should just start killing black babies. Of course, what could we expect in this era of wasteful government spending? A capable technocrat would be happy to suggest that it would be cheaper just to forcibly sterilize all the adult women. Let's let Bill speak for himself:

But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.

Of course, the last time somebody Bill might have actually read about went on a baby killing spree, we all know what happened.