Posted on 01/13/2011 2:47:21 AM PST by Scanian
A close reading of Sherriff Clarence Dupnik's recent statements suggest that he and Jared Lee Loughner may suffer from similar degrees of delusion. The sheriff has leveled charges of racism, bigotry, and conspiracy without evidence or argument. Indeed, the entire state of Arizona has been indicted by the Tucson Sheriff as a "Mecca (sic) for prejudice and bigotry."
Clearly, political operatives and a sympathetic media would like to stem the recent Democratic electoral hemorrhage by laying the criminal violence in Tucson at the feet of conservatives and Republicans. By any historical or contemporary measure, any attempt to link conservative politics to violent crime is bound to backfire.
For a century, from the end of the Civil War (1865) to the Johnson administration (1965), the Democratic Party was the institutional support system for Jim Crow laws, state sponsored segregation, and much of the depredations, including lynching and violent property confiscation, that plagued rural African Americans. The Republican Party, in contrast, was a distinct product of the abolitionist movement. When Jim Crow lost its chokehold on Dixie, the Democrat plantation migrated to big cities.
Today, majority black urban constituencies are registered majority Democrat. Most big city mayors and legislators are Democrats also. Violent crime rates, in many of these liberal sinecures are multiples of the numbers in flyover country. Two of the "most dangerous cities in the world," Detroit and New Orleans, have been run by Democrats for generations. Some cities such as Miami and El Paso have never had a Republican mayor. Understandably, Chicago, the "most corrupt city in America," does not submit crime statistics for national comparison.
The poverty and bankruptcy rates of Democrat cities show similar numbers. Large urban public schools are violent prep schools for large violent rural prisons where might makes right.
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Dipstick has been thanked for his great job by the empty suit president.
Is this accurate?
Perhaps Chicago has had the most politicians indicted or jailed. About crime statistics, I don’t believe the numbers that anyone publishes.
For example, the number of homicides has gone down in Baltimore, but the number of “undetermined” deaths has gone up. Hmmmmmm? I wonder in what condition the “undetermined” bodies were found?
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