Chicago a Punchline to NY Joke

The fall of "stop and frisk" casts a bit of doubt on the legality McCompStat's crime fighting strategies, but now we have to read about New York worrying about becoming "like Chicago:"

• Chicago police became a punching bag for a New York politician and cops after a federal judge this week stopped a controversial NYPD tactic, prompting predictions that crime in New York would soon be as bad as Chicago’s.
  
  “Welcome to Chicago,” the New York Post quoted one anonymous Bronx police officer as saying after a federal judge on Monday ordered a federal monitor to oversee the New York Police Department after finding the city’s stop-and-frisk policy was unconstitutional.
  
  Former New York Gov. George Pataki pronounced on national TV that policing in Chicago “leaves a lot to be desired.”
  
  Pataki, a Republican, was defending the stop-and-frisk policy and blasted the judge’s ruling. On Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” he fired a barb at President Obama and his Chicago hometown.
  
  If Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder want to investigate a police department, Pataki said, “why don’t they look at Chicago, where the civil rights of young African-Americans are being not only taken away, but they’re being murdered in record rates on the South Side of Chicago?”
  
  He went on to say of Chicago: “The policing there leaves something to be desired when it comes to protecting the constitutional rights of young African-Americans to walk the streets with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Actually George, in your haste to blame policing, you miss the fact that it's other "young African-Americans" committing most of the mayhem and depriving all sorts of people of all stripes from enjoying the Rights enshrined in the Constitution.

And George also fails to note the lies and falsehoods that the original CompStat program is based on and the less-than-stellar record it has in various minority communities. If this isn't the pot calling the kettle black, we don't know what is. Bloomberg's insistence that "...they put the police where the crime is..." completely misses the fact that crime is in the minority communities because that's where and who the majority of the criminals are.

But of course, even stating that makes you a racist and the cycle continues, grievance-mongers get grants and legalized bribes, and everyone goes along pretending that the statistics don't mean what they actually show. And then Chicago gets blamed for New York's inability to effectively argue a point of law in front of a liberal court.