Originally Posted by
hongkonger
I give a damn. So, you are committed to a massive government intervention to bring America's inner cities up to par with the rest of the country, then?
Actually, all they have to do is let the police do their job and support them instead of undercutting them and it would make a big difference.
This isn't reinventing the wheel. Past inner-city immigrant communities in years past had high crime rates like the black community does today. The Italians and Irish for example. Then at some point cities decided enough was enough, cracked down with aggressive proactive policing, the community got behind it, the gangsters and criminals were rounded up and thrown in jail (or killed) and things improved greatly for everyone else.
For blacks though when the police crack down and start to improve things, the race hustlers (traditionally the NAACP, but now BLM too) start screaming racism, and the police are undercut for political reasons, and things don't improve. The Democrats who control all these cities are scared if they don't side with the race hustlers against the police (and in many cases they are the race hustlers themselves, a la Jesse Jackson) they will get voted out, so they agree to handcuff the police and let crime run wile, and here we are.
It is no accident that of the 9/10 cities with the highest crime rates are Democratic strongholds with large urban black populations.