“Why have the cops allowed this same group of criminal children to prey upon the area with impunity?”
Nothing personal, but perhaps you’re not up to speed regarding the rules of engagement for big-city cops. Basically, the days that cops could ‘chase away’ troublemakers, including potential murderers, from the public square ended about 50 years ago. So now they’re free to roam as they wish, and people need to ADAPT to that reality, or you get endings like this one.
In my opinion, the blame first and foremost falls on her parents, who (1) Should NOT have sent her into such a dangerous environment, particularly given her background; (2) Very likely never instilled in her that a certain percentage of people are simply EVIL, and she needed to keep clear of them; and worked tirelessly to give us the judges needed to assure animals like this one would be free to kill at will. Being Leftists, they felt, no doubt that all people are good (other than Trump and the people who voted for him), and so there was no elevated risk in her wandering the city, as opposed to living in a quiet college town. Secondarily, no doubt, the others around her, who convinced her that the ONLY people she needed to fear was White Nationalists and Trump, and everyone else was just a sweetie, with some waiting to be discovered as such.
Anyway, while she certainly did not deserve to die, I’m glad her parents are learning a bit about the REAL WORLD, rather than the Communist Utopia that they had been living in.
Yeah, I realize that major cities don’t provide public safety for multiple reasons (PC, politics, cost, lack of will, lack of ability). I’m not talking about a general cleanup. The same kid arrested for murdering the girl had recently chased a younger girl into a store, knocked her down, and kicked her crap out of her. The store clerk called police, and provided pics. If bothering to make an easy arrest on a specific crime with a clear third party description and even pics of someone known in the area is outside the “rules of engagement”, what is inside the rules? I also realize that police cannot stop courts from turning felons loose in five minutes.
I agree that the victim’s parents should not have sent their child to one of America’s worst “no go” areas, even if that meant her not attending the college of her choice. If enough parents boycotted unsafe inner City colleges (and many highly ranked universities are surrounded by high crime areas), perhaps the colleges would close or move. Charlottesville has its own predator problem abetted by PC government, but the girl’s parents probably could not conceive the scale of danger in NYC.