I believe most news organizations are afraid to report "the truth" other than here they complain about the massive amount of illegal fireworks being shot off in the big cities and how the police can't or won't stop it.
The latest craze here is to stop publishing booking photos after arrests as they are deemed "prejudicial" for a certain segment that is captured more often than its percentage of the population. Next thing you know they will make it illegal to publish Ring videos to Nextdoor groups for the same reason... actually, some are already trying to block sharing those with the police....
The Mayor in San Jose is against defunding the police as he has a clue and stated a majority of police resources go to the poorest section of the cities that have the largest problem with crime. He doesn't hire the police chief, so some want to give him that power. I feel a lot safer in San Jose than Oakland or SF...
Breakdown
The unwinding of law and order in our cities has happened with stunning speed.
Heather Mac Donald
July 1, 2020
The victims in these shootings are overwhelmingly black. So far this year, 78 percent of all homicide victims in Chicago are black, though blacks are less than a third of the population. But the defund-the-police advocates and the Democratic establishment have said nothing about the growing loss of black lives.
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While 307 people have been murdered this year in Chicago, the Chicago police have killed three suspects, all armed and dangerous. In 2018, the New York Police Department recorded its lowest number of fatal civilian shootings—five—since records were first kept in 1971. (Data from 2019 have not been published.) All five victims were threatening or appeared to be threatening officers with guns or knives.
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Ambushes await officers who respond to gunfire alerts, illegal house parties, and other crimes. This weekend, New York officers were assaulted with bottles and garbage by a group of about 500 people at 3:45 A.M. in Harlem as they tried to find the source of a shooting picked up by ShotSpotter technology. A Baltimore officer was shot in the stomach earlier this month while trying to break up a large party in West Baltimore.
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These are no longer the warning signs of a possible breakdown of civilized life. That breakdown is upon us. If local and national leaders are unable to summon the will to defend our most basic institutions from false and inflammatory charges of racism, they have forfeited their right to govern. Unless new leaders come forth who understand their duty to maintain the rule of law, the country will not pull back from disaster. city-journal.org |
