BREAKING: White guys w no education, infantile view of the world, & serial failed get-rich-quick schemes, like Trump https://t.co/FujI9nthSR
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 30, 2017
…not the case w these two guys. But I grew up around guys like them in white working class suburbs of Detroit (and it’s probably the same…
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 30, 2017
…if instead of Detroit it’s Milwaukee or Cleveland or St Louis): Detroit under white control remembered as idyllic, “then blacks ruined it”
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 30, 2017
A/k/a, “keeping those people in their place”…
Cynical Ankh-Morpork NYC resident Harry Siegel, at the NY Daily News, on Atty-Gen Malevolent Leprechaun’s “Law & order, real & imaginary“:
It’s sports-talk hour at the Justice Department.
“Violent crime is surging in American cities,” drawls longtime-caller Jeff from Mobile, though that’s not, y’know, true. In fact, crime is up sharply in a handful of cities, most notably Chicago, and flat or down in many others. After a quarter century of fairly steady decline, the national murder rate remains near a 50-year low.
Yet American carnage can be averted, United States Attorney General Jefferson Sessions wrote this month, sounding a lot like someone telling Mad Dog “you can’t measure heart,” if we “avoid harmful federal intrusion in the daily work of local police.”
In the real world, cops basically police themselves, for better and for worse, despite feeble efforts from Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to pretend otherwise. The feds don’t pay for policing. Don’t set or even track local standards. Don’t know how many people cops kill, or how many cops who get fired from one department end up back on the job in another one…
Here’s how the attorney general said it, in case you think I’m putting words in his mouth. After his flat, false claim of an urban violent crime surge, he pointed to real rises in Chicago and Baltimore to declare that “amid this plague of violence, too much focus has been placed on a small number of police who are bad actors rather than on criminals. And too many people believe the solution is to impose consent decrees that discourage the proactive policing that keeps our cities safe.”
He didn’t even give lip service to the question of what the right level of focus of would be, just insisted a “small number” (whatever that means) of bad apples won’t spoil the whole barrel…
So instead of staying focused on actual violent criminals, he railed about “lawless” sanctuary cities, blamed the courts that have halted Trump’s executive orders for blood on the streets by “restricting crime tactics” and continued his bizarre on-and-off feud with New York City officials who vow to use discretion — something southern law-and-order types are traditionally all about — in dealing with the feds as ICE ramps up its efforts to round up people here without papers.
The idea that America’s capital for immigrants, legal and otherwise, is also its safest big city is more than he can wrap his head around…
“Crime tactics” instead of “crime control tactics”. I believe that’s what poker-table psychologists call a tell…