Posted on 05/06/2015 6:51:53 PM PDT by markomalley
Astronomically low crime rates may be one of the greatest public policy triumphs in history. All this time, liberals have been lying in wait, dying to undo all the accomplishments of the last 20 years.
A quarter century of peace has lulled ordinary people into taking their safety for granted. They naturally assume that everyone regards it as a good thing that people are able to go about their lives without being raped, beaten, slashed or murdered.
They don't know liberals. I've been warning you since 2001 that, as soon as we left the room, liberals would start emptying the prisons and loosing predators on us again.
The stunning crime reduction of the last couple of decades is being called a "public policy disaster" from every news outlet -- even the news outlets currently being looted in Baltimore.
Last week, The New York Times' Andrew Rosenthal praised Hillary Clinton, saying she had "correctly identified this country's racist incarceration policies as a wrong that must be righted."
The New York Times' working assumption is that the only way to judge the criminal justice system is to ask if Al Sharpton is unhappy.
The next day, yet another opinion piece hailed Hillary for confronting "American problems of poverty and violence, racial injustice and criminal policing," and her switch from a "conventionally tough-on-crime politician" to, presumably, a conventionally soft-on-crime politician. The column's only complaint was that "the solutions she was listing have been known for years. For decades."
Yes, we spent all of the 1970s and 1980s trying those solutions -- and our cities were war zones.
It wasn't politicians, but the public that finally demanded that the criminal class be taken out of circulation. Politicians had no choice: Either they had to build more prisons or be voted out of office.
Democrats, social workers, liberal judges and criminologists fought like mad to keep criminals on the street, coming up with ever-more creative excuses for why prison doesn't work and continuing to demand that we "close the achievement gap."
So much blood is on their hands! The "root cause" advocates are directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of murders, rapes, slashed faces, broken limbs and ruined lives.
By abandoning the left's "close the achievement gap" crime-fighting policies, the nation's murder rate was halved -- to say nothing of the rape, assault and burglary rates. At least 150,000 Americans who would have been murdered under the old policies are still alive.
In New York City alone, about 10,000 people -- almost entirely minorities -- are not dead because the "close the achievement gap" crime policies were finally jettisoned.
But now we're hearing the exact same nonsense.
No -- we tried this. Remember?
The left has been in a blind rage ever since all their idiotic ideas about fighting crime were unceremoniously dropped by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Instead of understanding criminals, Giuliani thought we should lock them up. And guess what? It worked! In his first three years as mayor, the drop in crime in New York City alone was responsible for 35 percent of the reduction in crime nationally.
When the murder rate in New York plummeted an amazing 20 percent his first year in office, The New York Times heralded this accomplishment with an article titled: "New York City Crime Falls but Just Why Is a Mystery."
Over the course of his mayoralty, the number of murders in New York declined from about 2,000 a year to a few hundred a year –- and kept falling as Mayor Michael Bloomberg continued his predecessor's crime policies.
The results weren't so great in cities that refused to implement Giuliani-style policing. While New York became a wonderland, some cities continued their decline into dystopian nightmares. Detroit didn't turn around. Baltimore didn't turn around. Philadelphia and St Louis didn't turn around.
The end of crime in New York made life possible again.
Major building projects, redeveloped waterfront areas, concerts in the park -- all this would have been impossible, but for Giuliani and Bloomberg virtually eliminating crime in New York.
It never occurs to Brooklyn hipsters -- i.e., white liberals -- just why it is they can live in Brooklyn at all. Before Giuliani, among the borough's famous residents was Tyrone Graham, known as the "Spiderman rapist," a criminal with a long rap sheet, who nonetheless managed to spend a few months of 1986 breaking into a dozen apartments, mostly in Brooklyn, to rape, rob and brutalize the occupants.
Tyrone was finally put away for the two-hour rape of Eileen Ross, a blind woman, in her 500 East 77th St. Manhattan luxury apartment, forcing her to flee the city and move to Oregon.
As New York Newsday described the Dinkins era attack:
"Graham smashed Ross on the head with a wooden mallet, raped her twice at knifepoint, forced her to cook him breakfast, tormented her by saying he had killed one of her beloved beagles, and did blind one dog.
"After tying her up with wires from a stereo headphone, Graham stole a leather suitcase stuffed with a $2,000 mink coat. He also stole a videocassette recorder, jewelry, five pounds of shrimp, $80 and a bank card."
This was an everyday occurrence in the 1980s. Today, the Upper East Side, as well as most of Manhattan, is safer than any small town in Utah.
That was life in New York pre-Giuliani. Liberals want it back.
If we must have a totalitarian state, let’s just round up and exterminate the Leftists.
Did she support Willard? Good grief.
Over the years I’ve liked a lot of what she had to say. Sadly she seems to have gone south.
The Clinton years were an interesting time. Things became very polarized. When those years were over, folks were able to focus on other things, and some people were revealed to not have been who we thought they were at all.
Some of these transitions made me sad.
Kieth Oberman, one of the MSNBC talking heads was quite anti-Clinton during the 90s. Boy did he ever go postal.
At one time Bill Maher wasn’t so bad. Once the Clinton’s were gone he just melted down. What a vile miscreant.
Then again a couple of the Clinton insiders showed up on FoxNews and seemed rather decent. Strange.
Hold that thought....
35% of the crime of the country happened in New York City?
I knew the Big Apple was bad. But not that it was THAT bad.
Amen..she talks a good game...but lives another....
Actually she said: “New York City alone was responsible for 35 percent of the reduction in crime nationally”
Which would mean that the reduction in crime in NYC far outpaced the reduction in crime nationwide.
But then if you are really bad a little improvement goes a long way.
Kind of... talking deltas here, I know. But it sounds like NYC plunged hugely, the rest of the USA took a tiny dip. Per capita. A mixed victory because after all this WAS national gun grabber, soda grabber Bloomberg.
“...........let’s just round up and exterminate the Leftists.”
Not a bad idea really, but a more civilized avenue might be to educate the public on reality. Real reality, not Leftist fantasy, but once again that would require an alliance with mass media the fantasizers have a lock. Most unfortunate.
Imagine! Having to educate on reality!? SHEESH!
She’s a gigantic troll, IMHO.
Also remember that Bloomers was also a False Flag Republican when he first ran for mayor.
He knew that the public wanted a continuation of the reforms that Giuliani made in NYC so he ran as a Republican even though he was really a flaming Liberal.
After it became all to obvious which flag he really sailed under he had to run as an “Independent”.
That’s what Pinochet did back in the ‘80s and Chile is much better off for it today.
Her number one issue in 2012 was massive legal and illegal immigration, and Romney clearly had the most aggressive policy among all major candidates in all political parties.
I agree, it turned out Romney was lying, but so was everyone else in the Republican Party, except Jeff Sessions and Steve King of Iowa.
Are you angry about Romney-Care?
We won decisive elections in 2010 and 2014 based on the lie that Republicans would repeal ObamaCare.
Except for Ted Cruz, virtually every other well known elected Republican in the country walked away from that fantasy issue, too.
Great article.
Her unfortunate love for Mitt Romney is not relevant to this.
Its a lot more than Romneycare. Its about $50 abortions. Its about sodomite marriage.
But what ticked me off the most about Willard was this column which demonstrated that he is the ultimate chameleon (essentially, it shows that he became pro-abortion in the early 90s to facilitate gaining political office in ultra-leftist Massachusetts. Of course, we all understand the flop back to being "pro-life" -- note the quote marks -- when he was preparing to seek national office). If one is capable of doing the total 360° flip-flop on a fundamental moral issue, he is utterly morally unqualified for any position of trust.
Yet Ann Coulter was his ardent supporter from all the way back to the 2008 campaign.
Ms. Coulter is definitely capable of stringing words together in an entertaining fashion. But forever more she will have an asterisk by her name.
How do you know Romney was lying about his immigration position? My impression is that he may actually have held it at the gut level.
Obviously you don’t trust Romney to be some internally-motivated stalwart on things like abortion. Instead you use external forces to keep him in check. He’s a chameleon and if he had been president he would have taken on the colors of the Republican establishment, which is basically pro-life. Yes he would have flip-flopped his way into that position, but that would have been his position. And it’s a better position than Obama’s position.
I thought she started being a Christie fan until he ticked her off. She endorsed Romney once he was the only candidate standing.
“Having to educate on reality!? Sheesh!”
Psychotic, adolescent Progressives love their fantasies and delusions since they make them feel brilliant, intelligent, genetically superior, and above the run-of-the-mill citizen they consider to be moronic and stupid.
Above all, there is a large part of the population that loves those delusions and who’ll vote Progressive until the end of time.
Delusion is reality for them and an education on reality is political incorrectness.
IMHO
She’s 100% right on this issue. I know, because I grew up in New York during the absolute worst part of the Koch-Dinkins era when “The Warriors” was practically a documentary, and then I saw with my own eyes the miracle that Giuliani pulled off almost single-handedly while his enemies pooh-poohed him every step of the way.
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