One of the central beliefs of conservatives for the last half-century is that the "broken-windows" policing using the CompStat data-driven approach, associated with Bill Braxton and Rudy Giulani, is a Good Thing. Police need to concentrate on the areas with the most criminality, and they need to get after the routine criminal acts of the criminal class.
The value of this was confirmed in nice liberal journalist Jill Leovy's Ghettoside when she wrote that the problem of policing in big cities is that people daren't testify in court about gang killings, because intimidation, but that people in big cities blame the cops for harassing the gang-bangers for minor infractions.
Or killing, or failing to resuscitate said gang-bangers when they are shot or restrained when resisting arrest.
I now realize that this policy was wrong. We should let the folks in the inner city kill each other to their hearts' content until they organize politically and demand that the majority whites are complete racists until they stop the killing.
Back in the day, in "Mau-mauing the Flack Catchers," Tom Wolfe captured the problem with policing the ghetto, reported recently by Steve Sailer. Back then the political types thought that the way to deal with riots at Hunters Point in San Francisco was to talk to the gang leaders, or anyone in control.
What they didn’t know was that Hunters Point and a lot of ghettos were so disorganized, there weren’t even any “key gangs,” much less “key gang leaders,” in there. That riot finally just burnt itself out after five days, that was all.
And now we are seeing, in the Ma'Khia Bryant killing where allegedly a cop shot Bryant because she was allegedly attacking another young black girl with a knife, is that it's none of his business. He killed a black girl, a child. That is all.
OK. I get it. White policemen have no business enforcing in the law on blacks. Period.
And actually that follows the logic of my reductive Three Peoples theory. People only accept law enforcement by their tribal leaders. For middle-class Responsibles, the tribe is the nation, so the national -- or municipal -- police force is the right organization to enforce the peace. But Subordinates identify with their race or their ethnicity or their country-of-origin. They need to be policed by the leaders of their tribe or race. Although, of course, we all know that race is a social construction.
Exactly. People identify with their socially constructed race as they have been socialized to do by their socially constructed leaders.
Therefore, while Blacks identify as Blacks, white police officers should not enforce American law in Black ghettos. However, when a Black ventures out of the ghetto into America...
When Blacks start to identify as Americans, citizens of the nation called the United States of America -- as some already do -- then it is OK for white police officers to enforce national law.
I have had a similar realization with respect to economics. Back in the day, I thought that Reaganomics had conclusively demonstrated for all time that Big Government and Keynesian economics were sick and wrong. That is what the recovery from the Carter years of "stagflation" conclusively demonstrated, when the Reagan administration instructed the Federal Reserve Board to kill inflation, and it did. And the Reagan administration forged an agreement with the Democrats in Congress, Tip O'Neill presiding, about cutting taxes and spending. The result was Morning in America, even though the Democrats decided not to honor their commitment to cut spending. The Dirty Dogs.
But now the Biden administration has been told by the best economists not to worry about the debt, not to worry about inflation, and that its trillions of dollars in "infrastructure" will boost the economy.
It's as though the Reagan years never happened.
In other words, the Reagan years saved the bacon of the Democrats, and allowed them to continue to believe in their fantasies that license them to continue with their program of spend-and-elect.
Or, to make the problem bigger, per Ike, if you believe in power, as everyone in politics does, you necessarily glomm onto ideas that propose a national mobilization to fight a war against an existential peril. Thus, today's headline that "Biden pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030." Because if we don't mobilize as one and buy Teslas the planet is going to burn.
So, the Black problem is that, until Blacks are crying out in sheer terror to insist that the white man comes into their neighborhoods and stop the killing, nice sensible ideas like CompStat and "broken windows" ain't gonna fly.
Likewise, until our Democratic friends are utterly demolished by their big government spend-until-you-see-the-whites-of-their-eyes political philosophy and are deposed by a successor regime, successive Reagan revivals ain't gonna help.
And all of that, I believe, is a shame.
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