bogarde73 wrote on Oct 4
th, 2016 at 1:15pm:
Greg, what it would look like - and of course it wouldn't itself be enough - is a slowdown & reversal of legislation squeezing the life out of nations; a start on rebuilding the inner cities for the blacks & Hispanics in particular; a simultaneous cleaning out of crime and putting the police back in charge of the streets, like Gulianni did; bringing corporate America to heel, in particular making them understand it will hurt to export jobs; making trade agreements work for American jobs; and finally, and most importantly, stopping the steady influx of Muslims into the country. How much time have you got?
On top of that, showing Europe etc that if America can do it, so can they.
There are more police shootings now than at any time in US history. Various inner cities have become a militarised war zone, not unlike Iraq, where police get their demobilised weapons and armoured trucks from. The police response to drugs and street crime in the US has been a massive failure. Forget the cost - almost 400 billion this year alone. Policing and private security is now a major problem in the US. Killings by police of innocent bystanders, incarceration rates, and the overall budget is the highest in US history. Despite this, the cause of crime has not changed at all. Drugs - black tar heroin and ice - are at epidemic levels.
Gulianni's police response to New York crime in the 1990s was pointless and repressive. Crime dropped there due to rising property prices. The ghettoes were sold off and crime moved elsewhere. The phenomenon known as the "great crime drop" of the 1990s occurred throughout the developed world. No one has come up with an easy answer as to why this occurred, although in the US, the economic boom brought on by the lifting of trade and credit restrictions, new technology and the gentrification of large inner cities like New York, were major factors.
Crime crackdowns and the mass incarceration of blacks and Hispanics have been a major failure in the US. The War Against Drugs has been lost. Trump has been proven guilty of telling porkies about crime. His 81% of whites are killed by blacks figure, quoted by the knuckleheads here, was a lie. In reality, 81% of whites are killed by whites, but Trump is the sort of guy who can turn white into black, black into white.
Believe the reverse of what Trump says, and you're far more likely to get closer to the truth. In reality, Trump can't afford the sort of tough-on-crime policies he's bluffing about - and certainly not with the 50% reduction in corporate tax he's promising billionaires like himself. In reality, such policies would kill and incarcerate even more millions, with no impact on drug crime whatsoever. And in reality, blacks and Hispanics would not be better off with Trump's agenda. Many of their neighbourhoods are already occupied by a military police presence that shoots first and asks questions later. They already fill the jails of America on mandatory three-strikes sentences for minor drug posession while those who can afford lawyers - like Trump - go free.
Alas, Bogie, such an agenda will never come to pass. Trump's been caught out. And yes, you've been caught out too. Your paranoid stance on crime and race - and its "solution" - have been proven to be false. While you'd love to see a war against blacks and Hispanics in the US, you can't possibly win. The drugs, the crime, but most importantly the poverty, will remain, whether you shift it from Harlem to the.Bronx, from the blacks to the whites, or around and around in circles.
America will only ever become great again by giving the poor a greater share of the pie, but Trump will never tell you that.
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