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From an op-ed<\/a> in the WSJ:<\/p>\n

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal bureaucracy with a vast jurisdiction, is testing a novel approach to crime and punishment. In a lawsuit against Townstone Financial, a small Chicago-area nonbank mortgage firm, the CFPB is signaling that it may attempt to punish anyone who complains about neighborhood crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article is by John Berlau<\/span><\/span> and Stone Washington<\/span><\/span> of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The essence of the CFPB complaint is that candid speech about high crime areas discourages people from those areas from applying for mortgage loans, with a disparate impact by race.<\/p>\n

To show how bizarre this is, the authors compare the supposedly discriminatory statements with statements made during the recent election campaign by Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson. They conclude:<\/p>\n

Policy makers interested in a real discussion about crime and public safety should arrest the CFPB\u2019s crude attempts at censorship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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