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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chicago on the Brink
2016-07-10
A retreat from proactive policing has unleashed mayhem in the city.

Heather Mac Donald

Long piece at City Journal, clearly worth the read. This piece has created some buzz in the political community. Demoralized, short-handed cops, bad agreement with the ACLU, corrupt police leadership, even more corrupt city leadership, and a long, hot summer. What could wrong? What's going wrong now: murder. Lots of them.
Posted by:Steve White

#7  As I recall, an effective squad needs both a driver and a passenger to beat the dust out of the back seat with his nightstick.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-07-10 17:58  

#6  60yrs ago or so, there were two cops to a squad car. I believe that this is the way to handle the problem in Chicago.
As far as Sanger is concerned. We should offer free LTIUDs and not pay any support to additional children.
Posted by: Glinesh Unung4707   2016-07-10 14:44  

#5  The victims are overwhelmingly black and poor, and as long as it stays that way no one will lift a finger.


It's the other bookend to Margaret Sanger's program and philosophy on the poor, the blacks, and immigrants. Just consider it postnatal abortion.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-07-10 08:45  

#4  Chicago ought to be called "Dodge City." Visit or live there and you'd better be good at dodging bullets. Another liberal paradise (sarc. on).
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-07-10 08:22  

#3  ...I'd submit that with the current Chicago leadership, this is a feature, not a bug. The victims are overwhelmingly black and poor, and as long as it stays that way no one will lift a finger.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2016-07-10 07:29  

#2  No longer "on the brink" but over the cliff, free-falling and accelerating.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2016-07-10 02:04  

#1  Thanks for posting this here.
City Journal is a fine publication. This article is quite succinct in what we face - the root of the problems.

For widespread distribution.
Posted by: newc   2016-07-10 00:39  

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