Pro-Crime Policies Work
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
Despite a generation in which radical anti-crime policies such as enforcing the law and locking up criminals slashed murder rates, there’s still plenty of debate over whether anti-crime policies work.
But no one can argue over whether pro-crime
policies work.
108 people were shot in New York, Baltimore and
Chicago over the weekend. Many of the casualties
were saved from that terrible “school-to-prison
pipeline” that bedevils promising young crack
dealers and instead went straight to the morgue.
56 people were shot in Chicago including a
4-year-old girl. That’s quite a step up from last
year in which only 17 people were shot. It might
actually be the most violent Chicago weekend in a
while.
And that’s saying something.
Baltimore has just racked up its deadliest month
since 1999. The fascist pigs no longer go down to
the ghetto to hassle misunderstood youth who are
just protesting police brutality by shooting each
other. When they do, they’re confronted by angry
mobs brandishing ObamaPhones set to record
outrageous police misconduct such as arresting
career criminals and drug dealers like Freddie Gray.
The Baltimore cops got Obama’s message loud and
clear. So did the gangs.
35 people were killed in Baltimore in May. And the
month isn’t even over yet. The last time things were
this bad, Bill Clinton was in the White House
pleading with Saddam to let the inspectors back in.
This weekend, dozens of people were shot and nine
were killed as gangs took advantage of the “Space to
Destroy” provided to them by Mayor Stephanie
Rawlings-Blake. Among those shot by
They-Whom-We-Dare-Not-Name-Thugs was a 9-year-old
boy. According to her spokesman, Rawlings-Blake is
“disheartened and frustrated” by the violence. Just
not enough to let the police do their jobs.
And the cops have given the pro-crime politicians
what they want. Arrests have dropped in May from
1,500 to under 1,000. There’s no more of that
“broken windows policing”. No more hassling drug
dealers. The Freddie Grays of Baltimore have all the
space to destroy that they could possibly want.
The worst of the violence is happening in the area
where Freddie Gray died. Black people are dying for
Freddie Gray. It’s not clear how many more
9-year-old boys will have to be shot in his name.
Maybe someone should ask a #BlackLivesMatter hipster
before he swaps out his Freddie Gray t-shirt for a
shirt with the soulful artistic rendering of the
next martyred drug dealer of the week.
Councilman Bill Henry, who called the riots
“uprisings”, insists that the answer is even less
police. On CNN, he had claimed that “we’re not going
to police our way out of where we are.” In response
to the latest shootings, Henry argued, “We shouldn’t
be paying for the police to drive by every half an
hour.”
Some residents however disagree.
A 67-year-old woman who described the
"boom-boom-boom" sounds of a man being killed
outside her house complained about drug gangs taking
over the block. “I don't see the police in this
neighborhood. They don't come here. It's rare to
even see them ride through,” she said.
Apparently she does believe that Baltimore can
police its way out of drug dealers shooting each
other.
On CNN, Henry suggested that Baltimore was still
recovering from the 1968 riots because not enough
money was being spent on the city. And in 2062,
Baltimore will still be recovering from the last
time its poor oppressed residents tried to burn it
down without receiving enough money for their
troubles.
Entire countries have recovered from major wars
since 1968. Not Baltimore.
But it’s easier to recover from mass destruction
than from policies that reward crooks and deadbeats
while punishing taxpayers and homeowners.
Pro-crime policies have paid off in Baltimore, just
like they’ve paid off in Chicago and Detroit. Obama
has pushed pro-crime policies in major urban areas
and those policies are working.
And not just in Baltimore.
Murders are up 60% in Bill de Blasio’s New York
City. 23 people were shot in 16 shooting incidents
over the weekend. The complaints by local residents
are the same. Where are all the cops at?
“I don’t feel safe at all,” Shantel Truluck said.
“Once its dark we — me, my husband and my kids — we
don’t go outside. There are just not enough cops.”
Bill de Blasio embraced pro-crime policies which not
only led to the murder of police officers by a
#BlackLivesMatter protester, but the killing of
black people by other black people.
These days you’re 45% more likely to be murdered in
Manhattan and Central Park is reverting back to a
playground for muggers with a 125% increase in
robberies. While Bill de Blasio has failed to get
the horses out of Central Park, he brought in his
voting base of violent criminals to get the people
out.
If you go to Radio City Music Hall, remember that
shooting incidents in the area have increased by
almost 50% and murders have gone up 28%.
Don’t take the bus. Murders in the area of Grand
Central are up 75%.
Bill de Blasio calls this “fearmongering”. People
who can add two and two together call it math. The
combination of statistics and a public tired of
being perpetually victimized by liberalism’s pet
welfare class which would rather steal than work put
a bullet in the head of pro-crime policies in the
90s. Now an alliance between a new generation of
college activists and fringe libertarians is
bringing them back.
And the results are as predictable as that of any
other failed leftist social experiment.
While Bill de Blasio trots out his Progressive
Contract with America as a platform for a possible
presidential run, the bodies are piling up in the
city’s tourist districts. The city’s finances are
fueled by a real estate bubble and tourism that
allowed it to go deep into debt on social services
spending.
Bill de Blasio wants the social services spending
without the public safety and the money. And that’s
a ticket to Baltimore and Detroit.
Mayor
Bloomberg had warned that one percent of the
households pay 50 percent of the taxes. The top 10
percent pays 71 percent of the taxes. The growth in
violence is calculated to drive them out. And then
the left can defeat the evil of gentrification and
build housing projects everywhere just in time for
the city to go bankrupt.
By then New York City’s Bill de Blasio may join
former Baltimore’s Martin O’Malley in a race to
succeed Chicago’s own Barack Obama in implementing
the progressive disaster nationwide.
The winner will get to watch the country burn.
A generation after the policies of the left
decisively went down in flames from Moscow to New
York, radical progressives insist on digging them up
and trying them all over again. The shuttered
stores, loss of hope and dead bodies show how well
their policies are working.
There’s room for debating how well anti-crime
policies work, but there’s no doubt that pro-crime
policies deliver swift and efficient results. Just
take a walk in Freddie Gray’s old neighborhood. And
try not to get shot.