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Fox Butterfield

• November 8 -- Criminal Negligence of Cause and Effect
Crime reporter Fox Butterfield files "Despite Drop In Crime, An Increase In Inmates," yet another Butterfield story that fails to grasp that putting criminals in prison can actually lead to a drop in crime.

• May 13 -- Prisons Fill, Crime Falls, Times Reporter Frets
Crime reporter Fox Butterfield Wednesday picks up a study from an unlabeled liberal group, the Sentencing Project, and frets over the increasing length of prison sentences.

• May 10 -- Abuse in U.S. Prisons "Similar" to Abu Ghraib
Crime reporter Fox Butterfield provides a factually thin stew of liberal anti-prison anecdotes: "Physical and sexual abuse of prisoners, similar to what has been uncovered in Iraq, takes place in American prisons with little public knowledge or concern, according to corrections officials, inmates and human rights advocates."

• August 4 -- Not Ready for Prime Time On Crime
A Times editorial defends D.C.’s useless gun ban: “Erroneously proclaiming Washington the murder capital of the nation, [Sen.] Hatch, the Utah Republican, would make it easier for residents to brandish handguns at home and in the workplace.” But Hatch is right: the FBI reports D.C. was the nation’s murder capital last year.

• July 28 -- “Crime Falling, Yet Prisons Still Filling,” Part XIX
Ever since 1997, when the Times ran the headline, “Crime Rates are Falling, but Prisons Keep on Filling,” the paper hasn’t grasped the connection between more criminals being in prison and a drop in the crime rate. Monday’s front page offered yet another naïve take on the subject.