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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (202376)	9/24/2017 5:00:09 PM
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Fired Chicago Police Superintendent Blasts Obama, Lynch Former attorney general found Fourth Amendment violations in his department; McCarthy says "politics played way too much of a role" in DOJ probe. BY KARL HERCHENROEDERSEPTEMBER 24, 2017 snip: ...He said that disenfranchised communities suffer from poverty and lack family structure, education, resources, optimism, healthcare and public services. These communities also deal with rampant narcotics activity and rampant alcohol abuse, he said, calling it a broken landscape that creates legal cynicism. That cynicism fuels the belief that the law and its agents are ill-equipped to ensure public safety, he said. ... “We’ve misdiagnosed the problem,” he said. “The problem in this country is not the police. The problem in this country is a social and economic divide that puts people in those disenfranchised communities in the positions that they’re in. In essence, we’re taking the wrong medicine for what ails us.” This landscape, he said, emboldens criminals and hamstrings police simultaneously. He pointed to an 85 percent increase in Chicago’s shootings and murders since 2013-14. While 32 percent of Chicago is African-American, they accounted for 70 percent of police stops between 2013-14. But McCarthy pointed to suspect data saying that 72 percent of criminal offenders are described as African-American. He asked what impact it would have to stop and arrest more Caucasians, arguing that stop data closely mirrors crime data. “We’ve got to put that genie back in the bottle, eventually, because we can’t really do our jobs without … having data-driven policing,” he said. ...