A Riot Primer

National Review Online ^ | September 1, 2005 | Eugene H. Methvin

[zlala]

My local news channel (Austin), they just reported, that a helicopter (didn't say from where) was getting ready to take off and deliver more amino to the NO police. The NO police have fired so many warning rounds, they are running out of amino. They also said 7 officers were arrested for looting.

[Clemenza]

According to some of my relatives who were living in the city at the time, Hugh Addonizio (the Mafia-connected mayor of Newark in 1967) initially thought that the riot was one of many minor "rumbles" that occassionally occurred in the ghetto, and thought that it would be easily dispatched by a couple of squad cars. Dumb, dumb decision by a stupid, stupid mayor. Sound familiar?

[Clemenza]

New Orleans is now officially Port Au Prince North.

[PeterPrinciple]

Mayor Dixon's no-arrest order precisely replicated the initial blunders of 1968. If other mayors and police chiefs follow her example, the nation will be in for a "long hot summer" indeed. For the lesson of history is plain: In riot situations, the earlier the police make arrests, and the more arrests they make, the lower will be the toll in life, limb, and property. And the cop on the street will not act decisively unless he feels he has the support of his superiors — principally his chief and mayor.


Key point.............

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"The NO police have fired so many warning rounds, they are running out of amino"

Amino acid? Try the health food store...

[NonValueAdded]

Nice advice, seemingly being roundly ignored in the Big Hard.

[DonnDe]

Riots begin when some set of social forces temporarily overwhelms or paralyzes the police, who stand by, their highly visible inaction signaling to the small percentage of teenaged embryonic psychopaths and hardened young adults that a moral holiday is under way. This criminal minority spearheads the car-burning, window-smashing, and blood-letting, mobbing such hate targets as blacks, or white merchants, or lone cops.

Seem familiar?

[vrwc0915]

The warning round should exit the thoracic cavity of said looter and be a warning to those to the left and right of said looter

[DB]

Wait until some major buildings downtown catch fire...

It will be an inferno.

And no one will be able to get there to put it out.

The city could burn before this is all over.

[vox humana]

The NO police have fired so many warning rounds, they are running out of amino.

Idiots. If they had been shooting to kill the looters, they wouldn't have run out.

[zlala]

I knew I shouldn't have done a spell check...hopefully most know what I meant, not what I posted.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"Amino" passed my spell check.

[Panzerlied]

"The warning round should exit the thoracic cavity of said looter and be a warning to those to the left and right of said looter."

Let alone those behind!

[vox humana]

The city could burn before this is all over.

Actually, that might be the best way to finish off this corrupt crime ridden cesspool.

[litehaus]

I can recall cops in BOCA RATON, Florida expressing the opinion that they should throw all the weapons confiscated "over the wall" to what was referred to as 'Pearl City'and let the residents finish each other off....

There exists, whether anyone wants to admit it or not,an element that we would all be better off WITHOUT..Yeh..I know, I ain't being PC..TS!

[SW6906]

Ping!

[Clemenza]

Yes, two blocks of squalor in wealthy, LIBERAL Boca Raton, aka Scarsdale South. My parents live in Boca and, believe me, Pearl City is Woodfield Country Club compared to Riviera Beach just up the coast.

[rellimpank]

--and as a aside to this, I forget who I am quoting--"urban riots occur for two reasons, fun and profit"--

[norraad]

I'll admit it & raise you one!