Dallas Sucks
In Houston, we've long lamented the dynamic duo of Mayor Pothole and Police Chief Crime Lab (finally gone), the Bayou City's crimefighting tandem. *ahem*
Things sound worse up in Dallas, if Rod Dreher is to be believed:
The latest FBI crime statistics show that Dallas is the most crime-infested big city in the nation. Want to know how bad it is? Read this. We have an incompetent police chief who keeps his job in large part because he's the city's first African-American top cop, and any criticism of him is instantly attacked as racist by what passes for black leadership in this city (this, despite the fact that 42 percent of the homicides in Dallas so far this year have been blacks). We have a city manager form of municipal government, so the mayor is relatively week. The city manager, who could fire the chief in a trice, won't, and because the city manager is Hispanic, an attack on him is ... well, you get the picture (another 42 percent of the homicides this year have been Hispanic). The white establishment doesn't want to rock the boat, and besides, most of them live in enclaves that aren't really hit by crime.Ouch.To give you an idea of how truly lousy Chief Terrell Bolton is, check out this quote from his press conference yesterday: "We're not the linchpin in crime fighting, because that's a collective effort. I think you're whistling 'Dixie' if you think the police chief can have some impact on a crook or a hoodlum that goes into a convenience store and pulls a gun on a clerk." If an NYPD chief had said something like that to the press, Rudy would have had his resignation on his desk before sundown. But New York is not Dallas. If you want to follow how the Dallas Morning News editorial board is discussing the crime problem here, check out our blog.
At least the Mayor of Dallas isn't ramming people with his car while on a quest to eradicate bandit signs.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 07/31/03 20:42 | Texas | Technorati
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I'll trade mayors with you. Our lousy 'non-partisan' mayor is probably busy whipping up CARE packages with the rest of the Democratic Auxilary for her husband and his buddies while they're busy blocking re-districting.
Posted by Scott Chaffin @ 09:37 on 08/01/03
Scott,
We like you too much to inflict Mayor Pothole on you. Trust me. You're better off without our version of incompetence.
Posted by callie @ 09:56 on 08/01/03
That would be a bad trade for us. We get rid of Mayor Pothole in a few months, and only one of the four major candidates would be comparable (or even a downgrade). Unfortunately, I'm getting a bad feeling that one is going to pull it off. So maybe we can revisit this trade in 2004?
Posted by Kevin @ 11:12 on 08/01/03
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