Meanwhile, Back in Chicago
“Chicago’s $22.5 Million Payout To A Gang Rape Victim Is Probably A Bargain.” Doug Johnson of the Wizbang blog notes:
Chicago Alderman Edward Burke says the city could have lost $80 million or more had a jury learned of all that Eilman went through and the nine desperate calls her mother made to police in the 27 hours. She had begged officers not to release her daughter because her daughter was bipolar and having a breakdown, but to no avail.
…Despite doing things like babbling incoherently and smearing menstrual blood on the holding cell walls, and after her parents’ frantic calls, Eilman was released to fend for herself in a high-crime area. She ended up in a nearby public housing building, where a man raped her at knifepoint before she fell from a seventh-story window.
Read the whole thing; follow the link to this Chicago Tribune report from 2010 for the horrific backstory.
And speaking of Chicago, is a once-great town with some of America’s best architecture (both Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe, and both architects’ talented acolytes worked there over the years) now on the road to Detroit? In a typically well-crafted essay at the Weekly Standard, Andrew Ferguson tries to make sense of the 21st century Second City: “Whose Kind of Town?”
The reason the woman was released at the now torn down Robert Taylor Homes high rise favela, was that the Black cops in charge of the jail were irritated at her, saying “Shut Up White B****” among other things. And the all-Black jailers and cops involved transported an incoherent, mentally ill White woman to essentially be raped and killed. Motive: racial hatred.
To their credit, a couple of older women at the Robert Taylor Homes tried to rescue the woman, but against hard-core gangstas with guns, they could do really nothing.
Racial hatred and racial abuse by Black authorities directed at a helpless, mentally ill White woman was the core of this affair. It is why Chicago settled — and why the case has been suppressed by the Media obsessed with the Edmund Pettis Bridge and the fallacy that is always 1965, and only White people can do racial abuse. The facts don’t fit the fantasy of noble elites crusading against chinless, inbred hillbillies lynching Black people in 2013, when we re-elected a Black President.
As the nation becomes more and more “diverse” (read: White minority) and more and more non-Whites become dominant authority figures (CPD is mostly Black now, Atlanta PD and city government in a 47% Black city is about 85-90% Black depending on departments), you will see more and more and more of this because evil as well as good is not the province of just a select race or group. And this is why diverse societies don’t work: if the harvest of Emmet Till was Eilman’s rape and vegetative state, what will be the harvest of Eilman’s rape and vegetative state? Considering that only a sucker, a rube, a simpleton will subscribe to the idea of a color-blind society (given that no one at all is willing to practice it, particularly Black people in authority?)
[King himself seems to have written that line for suckers. Given that he repeatedly called for special privileges and enhanced legal status for Black people in print and in speeches. Lesson #1 -- don't ever, ever be a sucker.]
There are basically two ways for a city to solve, if not the cycle of poverty, at least mitigate the violent crime that usually goes with it — either follow the path of New York for the past 19 years, and actually allow the police to do their jobs, or you can use the San Francisco method, which is to get enough upper-income people together in one area that you price the poor out of all but the least-desirable edges of the city. Or send them to Oakland.
Chicago has too much land mass and not enough rich liberals pining to move there to make Option 2 viable (albeit D.C. is trying out the strategy right now), which leaves Option 1. But the difference is that liberal New York has periodically over the past century tossed the Democrats out of City Hall if they screw up enough (and if there’s no Republican in Albany or Washington to toss the blame onto). Which is why the Democratic front-runners in the NYC mayoral race this year at least are making the pretense that if elected they’ll hire more police — like the Democrats in ’92 willing to tolerate a triangulator like Bill Clinton, 20 years in the wilderness in New York has made at least some Dems appreciate voters who prefer not to be murdered in their home town.
Chicago voters don’t punish the their politicians for failing to cut the crime rate — there’s barely anyone left alive from the last time a Republican was mayor of the Windy City and the people who keep seeing friends and family member getting killed keep voting in the same politicians. So why do anything to deal with the problem when you’ve already got the votes of the people it would help, and could stir up the opposition of those who loudly campaign for the rights of criminals over crime victims?