Chicago's Mayor Has a Plan
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wrote on 12 Jul 2023, 13:28 last edited by
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/chicagos-crime-problem-is-about-to-get-worse
Chicago’s new mayor, Brandon Johnson, just released a 223-page report titled “A Blueprint for Creating a More Just and Vibrant City for All” that included a truly disastrous “public safety” plan.
The plan, which was inspired by a “struggle rooted in black liberation,” contains no recommendations to increase enforcement of crimes. Instead, it proposes getting rid of a gang database because of "racial disparities,” issuing an acknowledgment of harm toward black and Hispanic residents of the city, “re-envision[ing] the role of a police officer,” and providing mental health services — rather than actual safety — in communities that are "over-policed."
Even that framing of the problem being “over-policed” communities rather than neighborhoods with too much crime indicates that the plan’s focus is not really on taking decisive action to reduce crime.
There is much discussion about “disparities” related to crime victimization rates in the report, but it is unclear how exactly those disparities can possibly be alleviated by doing nothing to make predominantly black neighborhoods safer. In the short term, mental health centers are not going to stop a single shooting by virtue of just being there. Neither will education on, and expansion of, government job opportunities.
"Over-policed?"
Really?
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wrote on 12 Jul 2023, 13:55 last edited by
Good ideas. I just worry that no matter how good Democrat ideas are, racism will always be the more powerful force.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/chicagos-crime-problem-is-about-to-get-worse
Chicago’s new mayor, Brandon Johnson, just released a 223-page report titled “A Blueprint for Creating a More Just and Vibrant City for All” that included a truly disastrous “public safety” plan.
The plan, which was inspired by a “struggle rooted in black liberation,” contains no recommendations to increase enforcement of crimes. Instead, it proposes getting rid of a gang database because of "racial disparities,” issuing an acknowledgment of harm toward black and Hispanic residents of the city, “re-envision[ing] the role of a police officer,” and providing mental health services — rather than actual safety — in communities that are "over-policed."
Even that framing of the problem being “over-policed” communities rather than neighborhoods with too much crime indicates that the plan’s focus is not really on taking decisive action to reduce crime.
There is much discussion about “disparities” related to crime victimization rates in the report, but it is unclear how exactly those disparities can possibly be alleviated by doing nothing to make predominantly black neighborhoods safer. In the short term, mental health centers are not going to stop a single shooting by virtue of just being there. Neither will education on, and expansion of, government job opportunities.
"Over-policed?"
Really?
wrote on 12 Jul 2023, 14:37 last edited by@George-K said in Chicago's Mayor Has a Plan:
"racial disparities,”
Racial disparities are nothing to be proud of.
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wrote on 12 Jul 2023, 15:56 last edited by
This is what absence of assimilation brings.
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wrote on 12 Jul 2023, 18:15 last edited by
Chicago is such a pretty city. From the reading, this does not seem a step in the correct direction.