Wednesday, January 05, 2005

POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS WORKS

Horrors! Fancy targeting black areas. Why are so many blacks being arrested?

"Chicago, the nation’s murder capital in 2003 with 598 homicides, saw the number fall to a preliminary total of 447. It was the first time that the city has ended a year with fewer than 500 murders since 1965, when there were 395. Police claimed credit for targeting the city’s street gangs. An extra 180 officers from the Targeted Response Unit were despatched every night to areas plagued by gang violence. As a result, killings fell most sharply in the most dangerous neighbourhoods, with murder down 55 per cent in one district and by 52 per cent in another.

The Chicago police also revived their gang intelligence unit, which had been disbanded in the late 1990s because of corruption. The department plans to add new anti-crime strategies this year, such as installing technology that can pinpoint the occurrence of gunshots around the city. “We’re never going to eliminate all crime. We have a city of 3 million people,” said Philip Cline, the city’s police superintendent,. “But we are going to do our best to keep working on the gangs that are responsible for the majority of our violent crime.”

Chicago and other cities have learned from the “zero tolerance” policing tactics pioneered by New York, which saw its murder rate fall from a peak of 2,245 during the crack cocaine epidemic of 1990 to 571 last year — its lowest since the 549 homicides in 1963.

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BRITAIN'S POLITICALLY CORRECT POLICING HAS REALLY HELPED -- NOT!

Britain’s police forces will face severe criticism in a think-tank report to be published next week. The study by right-of-centre group Civitas questions the effectiveness of forces in tackling crime. It says the police spend too much time behind desks instead of fighting crime on the streets. The result, it says, is that crime is “a very low-risk activity for the criminal”. America, France and Germany have suffered similar sharp rises in crime to Britain since the 1960s but have tackled them more effectively, the report says.

According to The Sunday Times, unlike their counterparts in other countries, British police have failed to focus on prevention of crime and zero tolerance of low-level disorder and antisocial behaviour. The rise in crime in the UK is “so spectacular” it is “difficult to comprehend”, the report argues. Britain is now “a seriously crime-afflicted and disintegrating society”. The report says that burglaries have increased more than fivefold from 72,000 in 1964 to 402,000 last year. And there are now 33 robberies of personal property for every one 40 years ago.

The report concludes: “The attitude of the police towards crime and anti-social behaviour has changed radically from the principles which were laid down by the founders of the Metropolitan Police in the early 19th century. “The Peelite principles of policing put the prevention of crime as the highest priority ... The hostility of the law enforcement establishment to the old beat policing model is a significant factor in the police force’s inability to get to grips with rising crime.”

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