True Crime Stories
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/opinion/true-crime-stories.html Version 0 of 1. To the Editor: In “Delusions of Chaos” (column, July 25), Paul Krugman offers his hypothesis as to how people can buy into Donald Trump’s false assertion that “crime is running rampant”: “Trump supporters really do feel, with some reason, that the social order they knew is coming apart.” I also have a hypothesis: Perception is everything at election time. Any casual surfing of the television channels tonight will show murder after murder. Sadly, some of the most dramatic “crime stories” never make prime time — the stories of men and women being released from prison, facing barriers that limit housing and jobs, fighting personal demons while navigating societal restrictions, struggling just to get through the day. Such stories are the ones that should be surfacing at political conventions. The fiction lives while the truth remains in the shadows. DAVID ROTHENBERG New York The writer is the founder of the Fortune Society. |