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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (3013)	6/22/2000 11:40:00 AM
From: Raymond Clutts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Well Charley, I'm from Chicago where despite having a Democratic dynastic mayoral administration(s) we have typically handled arson and rioting differently than other more PC environments. The Chicago PD and the Cook County State's Attorney handled the Bull's riots differently after they were surprised by the first set-they actively arrested and prosecuted everyone they could identify. There was no such second, "civil disturbance." You may recall that Richie Daley, the current inhabitant of the Fifth Floor-Mayor's Office, was the former Cook County State's Attorney and made his own personal reputation as a hardnosed prosecutor. He continues to bring that no nonsense attitude toward municipal government into all of these potentially explosive confrontations. Ultimately, our own local agitator, Jesse Jackson, had to go national to get any traction since he wasn't getting any sympathy locally. We also remember how the elder Dick Daley responded to the 1968 riots with the comment that, "I have instructed the Chicago Police Department that they are authorized to shoot to wound rioters and to shoot to kill arsonists." Which I would say pretty much summarizes how the locals here continue to view civil unrest as it's euphemistically described elsewhere. After those 1968 riots, the near west side of Chicago resembled Berlin circa 1945, until about five years ago when gentrification finally began to plow the ruble under new growth. Finally, more than anything else, the LA municipal government's benign neglect in protecting the property and safety of inner city residents is the exact antithesis of the no broken windows policing policy that has proved so effective in New York and elsewhere. No one wants to live in an orderless cesspool and the poverty stricken among us are the least capable of self defense against lawless behavior. I regard the liberal attitude that overlooks crime among blacks, Latinos and other minorities as the most unforgivable form of condescension since it excludes these people from the most fundamental freedom any government can offer its citizens-freedom from oppression by lawless criminals. Remember how Hobbes described the natural state of man in the absence of an ordered society. Life was short and brutal.