He did it! He figured out crime. Bret Stephens finally turned his sparkling intellect to crime, and what causes it, and he totally figured it out. “Undeterred Criminals Plus Demoralized Cops Equals More Crime”Substance is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Tana, where do you live, and how much contact do you have with the American black underclass? I live in a 90% black neighborhood and crime is out of control. Yes, the overwhelming majority of my neighbors are good people, but when 10% or more of a population are violent criminals (a guesstimation of mine, but probably accurate), that's a LOT.
This sizeable minority terrorizes all of us. They walk around in summer heat wearing hoodies and ski masks. They willfully litter all over the place. They smoke weed and blast mumble rap through their bluetooth speakers LOUDLY on board the subway. Hundreds of them travel in packs aboard 2-stroke dirt bikes and ATV's on public streets, doing wheelies in traffic. They swarm convenience stores, picking the shelves clean and knocking everything over. They randomly attack innocent people in packs.
I don't understand why anybody would tolerate this lawlessness. The only possible explanation is that those who do live in "Yuppie Green Zones", where this luxury belief system tends to flourish. Yes, we need to attack all of the root causes for the long-term fix. But for now the only way out of this in the short to medium term is through the overwhelming application of force by the state. Stop-and-frisk would uncover thousands of illegal firearms. Pulling over cars with broken tail lights and expired inspection stickers would too. Arresting drivers for DUI when an officer smells weed (I frequently see people smoking weed openly while driving, which is DUI) would go a long way toward turning up criminals with warrants. Basically, just do the opposite of what BLM wants and everything will be better for those of us who matter.
Don't bother pointing and sputtering while calling me racist. I don't care.
Memphis experienced the same police shortage that every industry experienced during the pandemic. An addition factor was the residency requirement (rescinded sometime last year), AND three of the five officers were hired before the shortage of "low morale" began (which was a result of the murder of George Floyd -- I also would question my line of work). CJ Davis tried to pull off a SCORPION Unit in Durham and it has also gone badly. https://www.wral.com/story/former-durham-officers-defend-proactive-policing-units-in-aftermath-of-tyre-nichols-death-in-memphis/20696562/
Plainclothes are just a bad idea. I get that there's got to be some kind of preemptive policing because Americans are armed to the teeth. But, also, you don't have to name it like COWBOY SCORPION SNAKE KUNG FU BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!" and communicate to the officers that they should racially profile and, also, kill people.
Low morale started way before George Floyd’s death. A portion of which was cause by false media reports of Michael Brown yelling don’t shoot while his hands were up. The sentiment of this article was similar, in that ‘cops murdered a 13 year old.’ No context, only outrage. Not only is it lazy reporting, it fuels a dangerous narrative of intentional oppression by police that does not exist. Report atrocities and speak facts. That will help clean up corruption and incompetence in law enforcement and other professions. Sprinkling hot sauce on a story just reduces trust.
And? Why couldn’t Ganeva do the bare minimum of research to discover that Memphis PD had, in fact, substantially weakened their candidate criteria? Is it just more fun to throw a fit and accuse Stephens of making stuff up? (Also, you might look into why there was a SCORPION unit proposed in the first place.)
Wouldn’t the opposite be more normal? Like once you proved yourself as a real journalist and not some BPD social justice follower, *then* I would pay you money?
Are you lost?! Ganeva is spot on. You link a NY Post article 🤮 You completely ignore that Melissa dismantled your "argument" (I being very generous with the term argument). And yet, you still carry water for the police (objectively bad people that are objectively bad at their jobs) and Bret Stephens (objectively bad person that is also objectively bad at their job). It's almost like you are here strictly in bad faith. Go celebrate Bicycle Day and, hopefully, you'll gain some much needed perspective because, as Melissa astutely pointed out, these are problems that anyone with a modicum of interest in, well, almost anything, are well aware of.
I'm not the one here in seemingly bad faith that's attempting to carry water for the cops and Bret Stephens by posting a Murdoch tabloid article, then continuing to act bullheaded after I was corrected by another reader, whereupon I then proceed to ignore the correction to attack the author of the article here.
Tana, where do you live, and how much contact do you have with the American black underclass? I live in a 90% black neighborhood and crime is out of control. Yes, the overwhelming majority of my neighbors are good people, but when 10% or more of a population are violent criminals (a guesstimation of mine, but probably accurate), that's a LOT.
This sizeable minority terrorizes all of us. They walk around in summer heat wearing hoodies and ski masks. They willfully litter all over the place. They smoke weed and blast mumble rap through their bluetooth speakers LOUDLY on board the subway. Hundreds of them travel in packs aboard 2-stroke dirt bikes and ATV's on public streets, doing wheelies in traffic. They swarm convenience stores, picking the shelves clean and knocking everything over. They randomly attack innocent people in packs.
I don't understand why anybody would tolerate this lawlessness. The only possible explanation is that those who do live in "Yuppie Green Zones", where this luxury belief system tends to flourish. Yes, we need to attack all of the root causes for the long-term fix. But for now the only way out of this in the short to medium term is through the overwhelming application of force by the state. Stop-and-frisk would uncover thousands of illegal firearms. Pulling over cars with broken tail lights and expired inspection stickers would too. Arresting drivers for DUI when an officer smells weed (I frequently see people smoking weed openly while driving, which is DUI) would go a long way toward turning up criminals with warrants. Basically, just do the opposite of what BLM wants and everything will be better for those of us who matter.
Don't bother pointing and sputtering while calling me racist. I don't care.
“Where is his evidence that the cops in the Tyre Nichols case were recruited due to a shortage of more competent police officers, due to low morale?”
https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/memphis-cops-in-tyre-nichols-murder-hired-after-pd-relaxed-job-standards/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
Memphis experienced the same police shortage that every industry experienced during the pandemic. An addition factor was the residency requirement (rescinded sometime last year), AND three of the five officers were hired before the shortage of "low morale" began (which was a result of the murder of George Floyd -- I also would question my line of work). CJ Davis tried to pull off a SCORPION Unit in Durham and it has also gone badly. https://www.wral.com/story/former-durham-officers-defend-proactive-policing-units-in-aftermath-of-tyre-nichols-death-in-memphis/20696562/
Plainclothes are just a bad idea. I get that there's got to be some kind of preemptive policing because Americans are armed to the teeth. But, also, you don't have to name it like COWBOY SCORPION SNAKE KUNG FU BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!" and communicate to the officers that they should racially profile and, also, kill people.
Low morale started way before George Floyd’s death. A portion of which was cause by false media reports of Michael Brown yelling don’t shoot while his hands were up. The sentiment of this article was similar, in that ‘cops murdered a 13 year old.’ No context, only outrage. Not only is it lazy reporting, it fuels a dangerous narrative of intentional oppression by police that does not exist. Report atrocities and speak facts. That will help clean up corruption and incompetence in law enforcement and other professions. Sprinkling hot sauce on a story just reduces trust.
And? Why couldn’t Ganeva do the bare minimum of research to discover that Memphis PD had, in fact, substantially weakened their candidate criteria? Is it just more fun to throw a fit and accuse Stephens of making stuff up? (Also, you might look into why there was a SCORPION unit proposed in the first place.)
If you upgrade to paid I will up my reporting and research standards!!!
Wouldn’t the opposite be more normal? Like once you proved yourself as a real journalist and not some BPD social justice follower, *then* I would pay you money?
Are you lost?! Ganeva is spot on. You link a NY Post article 🤮 You completely ignore that Melissa dismantled your "argument" (I being very generous with the term argument). And yet, you still carry water for the police (objectively bad people that are objectively bad at their jobs) and Bret Stephens (objectively bad person that is also objectively bad at their job). It's almost like you are here strictly in bad faith. Go celebrate Bicycle Day and, hopefully, you'll gain some much needed perspective because, as Melissa astutely pointed out, these are problems that anyone with a modicum of interest in, well, almost anything, are well aware of.
You should give Substance $50 just for being such a malcontented, contrarian edgelord.
Hear hear !
C’mon, don’t turn this into Twitter
I'm not the one here in seemingly bad faith that's attempting to carry water for the cops and Bret Stephens by posting a Murdoch tabloid article, then continuing to act bullheaded after I was corrected by another reader, whereupon I then proceed to ignore the correction to attack the author of the article here.