[Clemenza]

Chicago is interesting in that the CPD has adopted the strategy of "containment." In other words: keep the violence limited to certain sections of the city, preventing it from spreading too far north. I happened to live in the poorest part of the Northside (Uptown) and still felt safer than when I lived in the wealthiest neighborhood on the Southside (Hyde Park).

Here in New York, by contrast, the Cops since Giuliani have been going into the worst nabes in the city and crime has been reduced even in the South Bronx and Central Brooklyn. Thousands of black men have had their lives saved by NYPD action as a result, but you will never here Al Sharpton or Charles Barron (the local equivalent of Bobby Rush) admit this.

[Barnacle]

but you will never here Al Sharpton or Charles Barron (the local equivalent of Bobby Rush) admit this.

Or the media for that matter. It seems that there is a faction here in America determined to suppress such information; information that could benefit public awareness and influence official policy decisions.

The suppression of such crucial information is tantamount to misinformation and is a detriment of our country. Such dereliction of performance on behalf of the public trust is hardily what I'd call patriotic. In fact, I think it qualifies as the antithesis of patriotism. There must be a word for that. What would it be... treason?

Thank God for Free Republic.