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Sanctuary Cities Are Rehearsing Europe’s Vigilante Future

Movies work like a cultural seismograph: They record public anxiety before politicians get around to admitting it exists. This year’s “Citizen Vigilante” is set in Europe, but the reaction to it belongs in a Washington conversation.

Germany’s censors banned the film outright rather than let audiences see a story about migrant crime and judicial leniency, and the critics savaging it here have followed the same script, treating a B-movie’s premise as more dangerous than the crimes that inspired it. I earned my degree in criminal justice from Northeastern in 1990, and one thing that degree teaches early is that when institutions charged with public safety protect their own comfort over the public’s, private citizens start filling the gap themselves.

Watch the mashup clips of local news anchors reciting the identical script handed down from corporate ownership, word for word, city after city, and you get a preview of how a critical establishment functions.

The film draws on a real 2016 Hamburg gang-rape case that ended in suspended sentences, and German police data shows non-citizens overrepresented in violent crime statistics the government would rather not discuss. Calling the audience racist is easier than engaging with reality, and it’s the same reflex Congress displays whenever a hearing touches on immigration enforcement.

Britain already ran this argument to its........

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