Trouble in Paradise: While folks in San Francisco have always counted themselves more enlightened and tolerant that the rest of the country, a piece in today's Chronicle by researcher Michael Males laments that arrest rates for blacks in the city by the bay are 11 times higher than for other races and 3.4 times higher than for the rest of California. Mr. Males reports that while blacks in San Francisco suffer higher poverty than thirty years ago, "African American neighborhoods have not gotten deadlier." No deadlier than one of the worst periods for homicide in California history.

Judicial Pay: Richard Posner and Gary Becker address Chief Justice Roberts' argument that federal judges are underpaid at the Becker-Posner Blog.

Rethinking the FBI: The prolific Judge Posner also has this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (subscription) advocating removing counterterrorism from the FBI and creating a new agency along the lines of Britain's MI5.