REALITY ABOUT CRIME, FOR A CHANGE – AT 10:53 A.M. ET:   The police chief of the nation's capital is leaving, and giving us an earful about the criminal justice system.  And, no, she isn't politically correct.  From Powerline: 

Cathy Lanier is leaving her job as police chief of Washington, D.C. to become the NFL’s head of security. She is well-regarded in the District and her tenure as chief is considered successful. Were it otherwise, the NFL would not be entrusting her with its top security post.

On her way out, Lanier had some harsh things to say about criminal justice in D.C. “The criminal justice system in this city is broken,” Lanier told the Washington Post. Indeed, “it is beyond broken.”

Often, it’s the left that calls the criminal justice system “broken.” But Lanier was not offering a leftist critique. Instead, she found the system broken primarily because it allows repeat violent offenders back on the street time after time.

Lanier cited the case of an 18 year-old man who last week was on home detention when his GPS tracking device became inoperable. The man then went on a crime rampage that started in Maryland and ended in the District. His crimes included a robbery, a shooting, and a car theft that resulted in a crash that left a bystander critically injured.

According to Lanier, this sort of thing is “happening over and over and over again.” She added:

Where the hell is the outrage? . . . People are being victimized who shouldn’t be. You can’t police the city if the rest of the justice system is not accountable.

COMMENT:  Read the whole piece.  It's a breath of fresh air.  The fact is that one city – New York – reduced its murder rate by 80% under Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg.  You don't hear much about that on CNN because it would mean giving credit to Giuliani, a Republican.  But the fact is that crime can be reduced if it's taken seriously, if the best methods are used to fight it, and if there are results. 

It can also be reduced if brave mayors like Giuliani go about it without first getting the permission of local ethnic leaders, who will never give that permission.  Giuliani was the Churchill of American mayors.  And, like Churchill, he was despised by all the right people.

September 7, 2016