It is odd that the Republican Party, whose leader has 34 felony convictions and a knack for turning power into cash, is more trusted by voters to deal with crime.(很奇怪，选民在处理犯罪问题上更信任共和党——其领袖身负34项重罪定罪，且擅长将权力变现。) Yet that is what the polls say: YouGov puts Republicans ahead on this issue by 39% to 31%.
很奇怪，选民在处理犯罪问题上更信任共和党——其领袖身负34项重罪定罪，且擅长将权力变现。但民调确实如此：YouGov显示共和党在此议题上领先39%对31%。
Part of the problem is that people recall the summer of 2020, when riots paralysed(使瘫痪) American cities after a cop murdered George Floyd. Some on the left then embraced radical slogans(拥抱激进口号), such as “defund the police”, by which a few actually meant “abolish” them. Rates of murder and other violent crimes have fallen sharply since 2021. But memories linger(持续存在；逗留) of the Democratic mayor of Seattle, who tolerated a police-free zone in the city centre that inevitably turned violent. And today, though the Democratic Party’s actual platform on crime is boringly mainstream, the chatter among progressive activists can sometimes veer into dottiness(愚蠢；疯狂).
部分问题在于人们还记得2020年夏天，一名警察谋杀乔治·弗洛伊德后，骚乱席卷美国城市。当时一些左翼人士拥抱了“撤资警察”等激进口号，少数人实际上意指“废除”警察。自2021年以来，谋杀和其他暴力犯罪率已大幅下降。但人们仍记得西雅图的民主党市长，他容忍市中心一个无警区，该区最终不可避免地走向暴力。如今，尽管民主党在犯罪问题上的实际政见无聊而主流，但进步活动人士的言论有时会滑向愚蠢。
At Netroots Nation, a progressive conference in Philadelphia in June, The Economist met Felix Rosado, one of the speakers. Though a convicted(已定罪的) murderer, he seemed a nice fellow. He is truly sorry about the life he took decades ago, when he was a drug-dealing teenager. After serving 27 years behind bars, he now runs “Let’s Circle Up”, a project promoting “restorative justice(修复性司法)”—the perfectly sensible idea that criminals should take concrete actions to try to make amends(弥补；补偿) to those they have wronged.
在六月于费城举行的进步派大会Netroots Nation上，《经济学人》遇到了其中一位演讲者费利克斯·罗萨多。尽管是定罪的杀人犯，但他看起来是个好人。他对自己几十年前夺走一条生命深感抱歉，当时他还是个贩卖毒品的青少年。在狱中服刑27年后，他现在运营“Let’s Circle Up”项目，推广“修复性司法”——一个完全合理的理念，即罪犯应采取具体行动，努力弥补被他们伤害的人。
Crime and no punishment
犯罪而无惩罚