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http://www.wsj.com/articles/th...step-back-1473631079
By HEATHER MAC DONALD
'The streets are gone," Dean Angelo, president of the Chicago police union.
By Sept. 8, nearly 3,000 people had been shot in Chicago in 2016.
"There is no way out of this shooting spree," Mr. Angelo said. His despair is understandable, because Chicago is the country's most-glaring example of what I have called the "Ferguson effect." Chicago officers have cut back drastically on proactive policing under the onslaught of criticism from the Black Lives Matter movement and its political and media enablers.
In October 2015, Mayor Rahm Emanuel told U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch during a crime meeting in Washington, D.C., that the Chicago police had gone "fetal," and were less likely to interdict criminal behavior. That pull-back worsened in 2016, with pedestrian stops dropping 82% from January through July 20, 2016
Chicago's cops are responding to political signals from the most powerful segments of society. President Obama takes every opportunity to accuse police of racially profiling blacks and Hispanics. The media, activists and academics routinely denounce pedestrian stops and public-order enforcement—such as dispersing crowds of unruly teens—as racial oppression intended to "control African-American and poor communities," in the words of Columbia law professor Bernard Harcourt. Never mind that it is the law-abiding residents of high-crime areas who beg the police to clear their corners of loiterers and trespassers.
The media blame poverty, racism and a lack of government services for the growing mayhem. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson blames lenient prison sentences for releasing Chicago's gun criminals onto the streets too soon. The Illinois Legislature's Black Caucus, however, blocks any effort to mandate stricter sentences for gun-toting felons—in a sub rosa acknowledgment that the vast majority (80%) of Chicago's gun criminals are black.
Sentencing protocols did not weaken in 2015 when crime started rising. Nor did poverty or alleged racism grow worse. What did change was the intensity of antipolice ideology, driven by the Black Lives Matter movement, relentlessly amplified by the press, and echoed by President Obama.
The ideal solution to Chicago's violence would be for more at-risk boys to be raised by their mother and their father. Until that happens, the only hope for law-abiding residents of Chicago's high-crime areas is that police regain control of the streets.
Both figures are monstrous, but only one was preventable by the people living there.
tac
http://www.wsj.com/articles/th...step-back-1473631079
By HEATHER MAC DONALD
'The streets are gone," Dean Angelo, president of the Chicago police union.
By Sept. 8, nearly 3,000 people had been shot in Chicago in 2016.
"There is no way out of this shooting spree," Mr. Angelo said. His despair is understandable, because Chicago is the country's most-glaring example of what I have called the "Ferguson effect." Chicago officers have cut back drastically on proactive policing under the onslaught of criticism from the Black Lives Matter movement and its political and media enablers.
In October 2015, Mayor Rahm Emanuel told U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch during a crime meeting in Washington, D.C., that the Chicago police had gone "fetal," and were less likely to interdict criminal behavior. That pull-back worsened in 2016, with pedestrian stops dropping 82% from January through July 20, 2016
Chicago's cops are responding to political signals from the most powerful segments of society. President Obama takes every opportunity to accuse police of racially profiling blacks and Hispanics. The media, activists and academics routinely denounce pedestrian stops and public-order enforcement—such as dispersing crowds of unruly teens—as racial oppression intended to "control African-American and poor communities," in the words of Columbia law professor Bernard Harcourt. Never mind that it is the law-abiding residents of high-crime areas who beg the police to clear their corners of loiterers and trespassers.
The media blame poverty, racism and a lack of government services for the growing mayhem. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson blames lenient prison sentences for releasing Chicago's gun criminals onto the streets too soon. The Illinois Legislature's Black Caucus, however, blocks any effort to mandate stricter sentences for gun-toting felons—in a sub rosa acknowledgment that the vast majority (80%) of Chicago's gun criminals are black.
Sentencing protocols did not weaken in 2015 when crime started rising. Nor did poverty or alleged racism grow worse. What did change was the intensity of antipolice ideology, driven by the Black Lives Matter movement, relentlessly amplified by the press, and echoed by President Obama.
The ideal solution to Chicago's violence would be for more at-risk boys to be raised by their mother and their father. Until that happens, the only hope for law-abiding residents of Chicago's high-crime areas is that police regain control of the streets.
Both figures are monstrous, but only one was preventable by the people living there.
tac
