De-Policing in America's Cities: Erasing the Thin Blue Line

A Different Drummer ^ | May, 2002 | Nicholas Stix

[mrustow]

Article shows that urban police departments have responded to the contradictory demands that they 1. reduce violent crime AND 2. go easy on the black and Hispanic men who in many cities have a virtual monopoly on crime, by engaging in de-policing and systematic fraud in the (under)reporting of crime.

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[Red Jones]

wow, that's quite a story you told; how much america has changed in that the police officer just assumed that you were hostile to his agency and he totally discounted the idea that a citizen has a legitimate right to be concerned about those issues. It is very sad. The marxist mentality has had its way in our country and it is very difficult to put things back together.

[Red Jones]

that's a great group of articles you made available to us.

[gitmo]

On June 10-11, 2000, New York police let black and Hispanic mobs assault dozens of white and Hispanic women, in Spanish Harlem and Central Park, before and after the Puerto Rican Day Parade. When NYPD officers were blamed for not cracking down on the mayhem, dozens of them responded that they had been ordered to go easy on black and Hispanic miscreants.

On June 19, 2000, when the Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA championship, rioters celebrated by smashing shop windows, looting, and setting police cars on fire, causing millions of dollars in damage. The LAPD stood down, and city leaders bragged about the non-policing strategy.

Now someone explain to me why Americans only need guns for hunting and target-practice?

And while we're at it, why is vigilantism, by definition, a bad thing?

[Dakmar]

I also have to wonder why whites are criticized by liberals for leaving urban areas (white flight, urban sprawl, ridiculing suburbia) and also criticised for returning (gentrification). What the hell are we supposed to do, just shut up and die?

[brianl703]

It's been said that you can't be a liberal if you aren't comfortable with having two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time....

[kaylar]

Yes, that's exactly what the wealthy white liberals who run the media want . All nonwealthy, nonelite whites are racistsexisthomophobicxenophobicrednecktrailertrash, and that's why (A.) horrific crimes against nonelite whites are kept out of the media whenever possible (see Jake Robel*, The Wiichita Horror*, The Texas 'Jaywalking' and Dragging cases*, The Flint Gang Assault, the Chicago Disembowelling and the Chicago Igniting, The South Carolina Skinning/Bleach Torture, etc etc) and (B) when such crimes cannot be kept out of the media, it is plain from the "tone" of the editorials that the main sympathy is felt for the poor deprived victim of socierty who 'lashed out'.

And this is why the Second Amendment is targeted for repeal , de facto or de jure: So the "rednecks" (will be easier prey.

* marks crimes covered here at FR. The other ones occured 1990-1997, before FR was up and running.

[old school]

Coppers aren't stupid. Why stick your neck out and risk a federal civil rights law-suit, or imprisonment for doing what you were hired to do. You can't get into trouble for doing nothing! You ought to get a look at Oakland or San Francisco. The hysterical Left has gone overboard with so-called police reforms, that have virtually ham-strung the Police. It has less to do with race, than it appears to be an attempt to organise all police departments to conform to some national standard (which ain't good)!

[lavaroise]

yaah, well, this does not even include cops leaving the inner city dwellers to tear each other appart. Are too many hispanics and blacks in jail? Well, it sure ain't us who are putting them in their city wide jails as Democrats do.

[connectthedots]

In Clark County, a woman embezzled approximately $300,000 from a large medical practice, but the prosecutor has decided not to prosecute and let the case be handled civilly. My guess is that the embezzler's attorney, who seems to get too many crimal charges dismissed under unusual circumstances is a big reason. There is also the possiblity that the embezzler also had evidence of criminal conduct by other employees of her company and the company just tried to make the whole thing go away.