This Is How The Left Fights High Crime?
For all the cries of "police states" and "fascism" should we dare elect anyone moderate or conservative to higher office, the Left sure is silent in the face of its own exercising that very power. Mayor Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin has asked his Democrat governor counterpart, Governor Kathleen Blanco, to help combat crime in a city still depopulated by Katrina by sending in the troops.
A projected total of 300 National Guard and 60 state police will and have entered the city to help attempt to restore law and order. The event was precipitated by the death of five teenagers last weekend in what was likely renewed gang violence. The gangs are returning with the citizenry to stake out their territories and as a result 52 New Orleans residents have fallen to homicide so far this year. It's being said that the city has just half of its former population, but all of its crime.
Is this all? No, not really. The police force of New Orleans is legendary for its corruption and the city machine that provides the infratstructure is equally as well known for incompetence and failed bureaucracy. In other words, it's exactly what you'd expect in a city and state run from top to bottom by leftist Democrats.
When New York was out of control, after the inept and completely unqualified David Dinkins was dumped from the mayoral position, the new mayor Rudy Giuliani, a former prosecutor made famous for breaking much of the mafia in New York, increased law enforcement presence, reduced corruption, and stiffened criminal deterrence and prosecutions in his city. New York, although not perfect, is a model of what good can come from a more honest police force that truly intends to protect and serve its citizenry.
New Orleans, a smaller city with much less of a population (especially post-Katrina) has rampant corruption, no real criminal deterrence or increased prosecution and the general impression of the citizenry and tourists that they are at the mercy of fate and cannot depend on their government for the most basic of services...protection.
So what does the city do? Does it try to clean up its police force? Does it make prosecuting and deterring these recently arrived and returning criminal elements its highest priority? No. Unfortunately, it's well beyond that and mostly incapable of revitalizing its interal machinery. The people in power lack the will, the desire or the means, intellectually or otherwise, to restore order. All that's left is to establish a police state. The governor must send in armed troops to try and quell the gangs.
If ever there was a prime example of the failure of liberal policies in a "multicultural" environment that showed just how bad things could fall, and if ever there was a more telling example of what the Left will do when they feel they are cornered, with nowhere else to go without surrendering, it is New Orleans. Let it be the poster child for liberal ideas on crime prevention, punishment, and how NOT to run a city or a state for that matter.
The next time you hear someone cry that new policies of crime prevention or deterrence, more realistic policies where criminals are punished and the police are competent, remind them of New Orleans and remind them especially who was in charge when it all fell apart. This is not an example we should forget.
For all the cries of "police states" and "fascism" should we dare elect anyone moderate or conservative to higher office, the Left sure is silent in the face of its own exercising that very power. Mayor Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin has asked his Democrat governor counterpart, Governor Kathleen Blanco, to help combat crime in a city still depopulated by Katrina by sending in the troops.
A projected total of 300 National Guard and 60 state police will and have entered the city to help attempt to restore law and order. The event was precipitated by the death of five teenagers last weekend in what was likely renewed gang violence. The gangs are returning with the citizenry to stake out their territories and as a result 52 New Orleans residents have fallen to homicide so far this year. It's being said that the city has just half of its former population, but all of its crime.
Is this all? No, not really. The police force of New Orleans is legendary for its corruption and the city machine that provides the infratstructure is equally as well known for incompetence and failed bureaucracy. In other words, it's exactly what you'd expect in a city and state run from top to bottom by leftist Democrats.
When New York was out of control, after the inept and completely unqualified David Dinkins was dumped from the mayoral position, the new mayor Rudy Giuliani, a former prosecutor made famous for breaking much of the mafia in New York, increased law enforcement presence, reduced corruption, and stiffened criminal deterrence and prosecutions in his city. New York, although not perfect, is a model of what good can come from a more honest police force that truly intends to protect and serve its citizenry.
New Orleans, a smaller city with much less of a population (especially post-Katrina) has rampant corruption, no real criminal deterrence or increased prosecution and the general impression of the citizenry and tourists that they are at the mercy of fate and cannot depend on their government for the most basic of services...protection.
So what does the city do? Does it try to clean up its police force? Does it make prosecuting and deterring these recently arrived and returning criminal elements its highest priority? No. Unfortunately, it's well beyond that and mostly incapable of revitalizing its interal machinery. The people in power lack the will, the desire or the means, intellectually or otherwise, to restore order. All that's left is to establish a police state. The governor must send in armed troops to try and quell the gangs.
If ever there was a prime example of the failure of liberal policies in a "multicultural" environment that showed just how bad things could fall, and if ever there was a more telling example of what the Left will do when they feel they are cornered, with nowhere else to go without surrendering, it is New Orleans. Let it be the poster child for liberal ideas on crime prevention, punishment, and how NOT to run a city or a state for that matter.
The next time you hear someone cry that new policies of crime prevention or deterrence, more realistic policies where criminals are punished and the police are competent, remind them of New Orleans and remind them especially who was in charge when it all fell apart. This is not an example we should forget.
posted by Rob Beck | 7:46 AM
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