This is an unfortunately foreseeable
misery for the Windy City (murder capital of America). Well over a dozen (and possible a record for this millennium),
mostly Blacks, killed over this July 4 weekend.
Our new President Trump finds himself spooking by suggesting he'll draw in “the Feds” to retain greater calm, in
this sanctuary city run under progressively intense stress since 2011 by Rahm Emanuel, and now also buckling under the larger weight of a fiscally
downgraded state rating (likely first to ever be valued as credit "junk" and a Lottery that's already withdrawn from state). Should federal "aid" go along with additional police force? And a question
remains, which is why this sea of mostly Blacks killed by one another are not an outrage
to the Black Lives Matter phenomenon, but only the much smaller fraction of
Blacks murdered by police? Is that wholly and intellectually honest, and aren't minorities slain through multiple mechanisms and not just guns? As we see these notes from last week (here, here), suggesting slightly more mostly-minorities are butchered on just July 4
weekend, then are killed by the police all year long.
And those shot are
increasingly in multi-victim situations, so it can be irrepressibly fat-tailed
these violent rampages. Something legislators
and activists fail to realize, though the police and level-minded people do since police
killing of civilians are not fat-tailed.
So, we ask again this year (and it’s not an
all or nothing type of question but reasonable people likely converge to where
the weight of the problem lies), where should President Trump place the
priority of his efforts: on the police, or on the civilians shot and murdered
by their own neighbors, or on policies addressing the priorities of both?
Crime and killings in Chicago have reached such epidemic proportions that I am sending in Federal help. 1714 shootings in Chicago this year!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2017
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