The Obamas are far too hypocritical to live in Baltimore themselves.

Replies: @JohnnyD

Kudos to President Trump. He is, after all, just trying to start a dialogue.

Isn't this an essential part of that Conversation On Race that we are always admonished we need?

Replies: @Clyde, @Achmed E. Newman

But absolutely should be made to.

Replies: @JohnnyD

It's actually a handsome city which could be a great deal better than it is. It had and has some agreeable neighborhoods. The homicide rate when I live there was about 20 per 100,000, and you were anxious and careful walking around at night. One curio about the place in that era was that you could see dramatic changes in housing quality almost from block to block.

The city's governing class has long had delusions of adequacy. Under Mayor Schaefer, the city was at least able to tread water. All of his successors have been losers. Catherine Pugh's election was unusual - it was the first time since 1955 that the city had elected someone who came out of the business community. She quickly revealed herself to be useless. Her response to public order problems was to suggest more spending on community colleges.

What Baltimore might benefit from is a revision of modes of local government finance and of the division of labor between the various levels of government in Maryland. Brass tacks, that would be to take responsibility for law enforcement away from the municipal government and vest it in a superordinate authority. Of course, the superordinate authority would have to be committed to re-establishing public order. In some cases it would be, in most just business as usual.

Replies: @Jim Christian

And that's the same with the immigrant ghettoes and with the countries those immigrants came from. They have been hypnotized into making their morality a cargo cult ritual, into presupposing that the fountains of great moral feeling must always spring somewhere else, so that to discuss moral issues is to talk about things far away.

Oh, there's marketing, Jerry.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0161/4702/products/mug_baltimore-maryland-there_s-more-than-murder-here-route-one-apparel_f5215a9d-89e9-4e8d-82ba-351a11459abe_grande.jpg

Giddyup!

Replies: @Ron Mexico

Exactly. If White people still lived in Baltimore it would still be a fun place to live. Hon.

Replies: @Anonymous, @John Cunningham

white flight is the direct cause of Black problems

Tiny, whites are fleeing for their lives. For their own and that of their children. What else can they do?

"white flight is the direct cause of Black problems."

That's one of the more racist things ever posited here.

Replies: @Anonymous

Even when black violence causes black flight Tiny?

Replies: @Buck Ransom

Even my openly socialist, old-time leftist brother (I'll give him credit, at least he has nothing but contempt for the Vox types) thinks Conover has a face that seems to be specially designed to accept the human fist. And he's a former wrestler and tight end/offensive lineman, so I expect the physics of how Adam's head would react to the impact would be entertaining to simulate.

Replies: @Reg Cæsar

Who was that little girl that got on that bus,Tiny? Was it you? Was that little girl you?

Replies: @Mr McKenna

white flight is the direct cause of Black problems


Yes because No whites = shithole.

white flight is the direct cause of Black problems
 

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https://cdn.firespring.com/images/5c1eaafc-b3bc-4a4f-854b-a11c32c2705d.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MRCxLocUDI

Replies: @Realist

white flight is the direct cause of Black problems
 

Replies: @AnotherDad, @Reg Cæsar, @Twodees Partain

Oh Steve, you're so incorrigible!

white flight is the direct cause of Black problems
 

It’s quite sad, isn’t it? With that kind of homicide rate, a person who lives in Baltimore for 80 years (essentially from birth to death) has roughly a 4.5% chance of being murdered.
 

Replies: @Kronos, @Father O'Hara, @Reg Cæsar

With that homicide rate, why don't the residents of Baltimore have a right to seek asylum in Canada or even Mexico?

An minimum, they should have a human right to asylum in Northwest Washington DC...

Replies: @Moses

You don't get it. Sociopaths like to live in violent ghettos because 'anything can happen at any moment.' Sociopaths think danger is FUN. They like watching someone being gunned down in the street. They get off on that. Black ghettos are crammed to the brim with criminals, and they just love that violence. It's better than TV for them.

But what's the chance of being murdered twice if they live in Baltimore until 80?

Statistical non-fact.

Run the numbers for:
1. Black males aged 17-39.
2. White people buying illegal drugs from Blacks.
3. Naive (liberal) white people in the wrong place (any majority black area) at the wrong time (any time).

If someone has lived to 80, then he wasn't murdered!

https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-sanders-baltimore-20151207-story.html

"Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you're in a wealthy nation," Sanders told reporters later at the Freddie Gray Empowerment Center in Bolton Hill. "You would think that you were in a Third World country."
 

Replies: @Autochthon

You'd have to get rid of a lot more besides rats before that city could become civilized and habitable.

Always a relevant news site, that CNN.com

"RED SUMMER" which would make for a great movie title was also featured on NPR yesterday.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/07/27/744130358/red-summer-in-chicago-100-years-after-the-race-riots

It's as if Taliban attacked holy Buddhas of Bamiyan - and the Buddhas fight back!

And there was an Emmett Till siting on NPR yesterday, albeit for a sort of legitimate 'news' story...some Ole Miss undergrads shot up one of the many Emmett Till signs in the state. Pro Publica turned its high powered 'investigative reporters' on to the story.

Replies: @Clyde, @Charles Erwin Wilson

1919. Eat your straw hat, Emmett.
(Whenever they bring up redlining I am reminded that Detroit's white riots of the forties were a direct response to FDR attempting to force blacks into white neighborhoods.)

I remember a certain president denigrating Ferguson, MO such that it was burned and looted but who cares about those people.

Excellent comparison to WW2 deaths.

Slightly OT, you can shock the average (historically illiterate) millennial when you point out the US WW2 death rate averaged out to 2000 per week. And the Russian death rate was 30 times higher (~ 20 million total).

Replies: @Anonymous

If the Baltimore homicide rate were US-wide, there’d be 700,00 murders in a 44-month period, slightly less but comparable to the US military death rate in WWII.
 

Replies: @Anonymous, @Bugg

At some point in the previous decade, I noted that the homicide rate in South Africa was higher than that in Iraq (putatively at war at the time). I wonder, are there any common factors with your examples?

Look who's making strategies here. Lol, you can't even save yourselves from extinction(multiple epidemics including drugs), but continue to talk about black people. Such "high IQ" yet you have poor survival skills and resort to suicide whenever there's a bump in the road. Enjoy!

After the Obama presidency ended, I believe the Obama's moved to an exclusive part of Chicago.

Replies: @Jim Don Bob

What about malt liquor? I hear where malt liquor, watermelon, and menthol cigarettes go, bad things happen. Are these the roots of urban decay?

I know! It's populated by DEMOKKKRATS!!!!!!!

Milwaukee wasn’t even on my radar. What the hell happened there?

What do they have in common? Maybe, let me see, 'DUH-versity'!

Well, let's see -

Milwaukee has many Mick and Polock Catholics and used to have many Scots-Irish hillbillies and rednecks who went to work in beer making and distribution.

Chicago has a bunch of Mick and Polock Catholics. And it used to have Al Capone, and more than a few Scots-Irish hillbillies who went for factory jobs.

Detroit used to be filled with Mick and Polock Catholics, and Scots-Irish hillbillies who went to get factory jobs.

Baltimore used to be filled with Mick and Polock Catholics and even more Scots-Irish hillbillies than Detroit once had.

Memphis had the largest Irish Catholic population in the Deep South and used to be filled with Scots-Irish hillbillies and rednecks.

The answer is obvious: having had lots of Mick and Polock Catholics and Scots-Irish means that eventually your city will become a murder capital.

The Numinous Negroes are innocent victims.

they're full of DEMOCRATS

He's in their heads most definitely.

Ostensibly in order to own Drumphf on the Baltimore controversy, Huffpo just ran an article denouncing greedy jewish landlords:

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/jared-kushner-elijah-cummings-donald-trump-baltimore-kushnerville_n_5d3cf3e0e4b0c31569ebebf6

56 homicides per 100,000 is about the rate of El Salvador, which has the highest homicide rate of any country in the world
 

Outrage as Trump brands mostly-black Baltimore ‘infested mess’
 

For a white to criticize -- even to notice! -- the black intifada against whites -- even against each other! -- is now to court being accused of racism.

One way or another, this insanity has to end.

Replies: @Anonymous

Next we'll have black criminals accusing their victims of racism for reporting them to the police.

Check out The Baltimore Plan (1954) on Youtube for a pre-PC look at attempts to clean up blight in black neighborhoods in Baltimore.




https://youtu.be/UDzskLxdzI8

Might be little proto-John Watersish, but not violent or filthy.
Ever seen the original Hairspray?

Why would a sane human live in a chimp house at the zoo??

Yeah, but when homicide goes up, all the lesser crimes rise as well. Also, the value of your home will decline. Someone must know this, but what crime decreases home prices the most?

Replies: @Jonathan Mason

I wonder if that goes the other way,too. Would a female professional living in an affluent suburb have,perhaps,a lesser likelihood of committing homicide than a black ghetto drugdealer?

Replies: @Twodees Partain

female professionals who live in the tonier suburbs
 

Somewhere there must be a betting pool with an over/under.

How can and how will Johns Hopkins university cope ?

Replies: @Charles, @Anon7, @Hapalong Cassidy

It takes a literal army to protect Johns Hopkins and to protect the institutional money managers still located in Baltimore....

Replies: @Art Deco

Isn’t this an essential part of that Conversation On Race that we are always admonished we need?
 

AGREED! I've given Trump a lot of grief, and rightfully so, for getting hardly anything done of his campaign promises and lately not even pretending to. However, the words in these tweets and his retorts get a lot of truth right out in front of the public. Kudos, indeed. Now we've got ourselves a dialog!

Replies: @Jim Don Bob

Or is it a brutal Darwinian selection process? The most ruthless and violent thinning out the herd.

Replies: @Counterinsurgency, @Dieter Kief, @Duke84

Only, that's a parody account (and so many still fall for it).

And then there are Towson and Owings Mills. They used to be upscale. But both the Light Rail and proximity to the city ruined the malls. I know several people who bought places around there and have watched property values decline.

Replies: @Hank Yobo, @Ris_Eruwaedhiel, @Reg Cæsar

The F.U.S.A. is a shit-hole country; it is no more a "rich nation," just because it still has enclaves of rich assholes in their gated communities, insulated suburbs, and penthouses high above the peasants, any more than India, Brasil, or the Philippines – which all have those things, too.

Is the F.U.S.A. at Haitian levels of fuck-cockery yet? Wel, no. But give it time.

The inertia and denial are pathetic, like a forty-year-old who tells himself he is yet "young" and speaks condescendingly about "middle-aged" people – as if a whole Hell of a lot of us make it much past eighty....

The F.U.S.A. is no more some wealthy bastion of freedom and stability (I concede it once was, in my own memory) than Britannia rules the waves or all roads lead to Rome.

Someone must know this, but what crime decreases home prices the most?
 

2. See below.

https://img0.etsystatic.com/008/0/5957105/il_570xN.363358254_k1l8.jpg

3. Not separating your recyclables.

4. Public drinking from brown paper bags.

@Tiny Duck knows, as apparently you do not, that POCs (always excepting NAMs, it goes without saying) do not possess agency. Anything remotely dysfunctional about POCs and their colorful cultures, folkways, lifestyles and crime rates can always be traced back to YT. Always!

Replies: @Kronos, @Anonymous

Re Johns Hopkins: Not too long ago I read - perhaps right here on the Unz - that J.Hopkins was creating its very own police force. Not "security" guards, but honest-to-goodness armed policemen.

Replies: @PV van der Byl, @Anonymous, @Beyond Vegetables, @M_Young

When I visited there a year ago, there were pairs of security guards standing on the sidewalk every 50 yards between the city and the university, day and evening, 7 days per week. Never seen anything like it anywhere else.

Replies: @houston 1992, @houston 1992, @The Last Real Calvinist, @Ed

Ironically, Johns Hopkins location is the reason why it’s one of the best medical schools / training hospitals in the country. Doing your residency there is the closest thing you can get to serving in a war zone.

Replies: @Hibernian

Conover's father is a marine biologist with the middle name Olmstead. So you can expect a cross between Central Park and Bikini Bottom.

you can shock the average (historically illiterate) millennial when you point out the US WW2 death rate averaged out to 2000 per week. And the Russian death rate was 30 times higher (~ 20 million total).
 

Replies: @Autochthon, @J.Ross

The Negro: A Menace to American Civilization by R.W. Shufeldt, M.D., Major, Medical Department, United States Army (Retired), (Boston: The Gorham Press, 1907), p. 54-55:

“So far as I am at present aware, no such comparisons have been made in the case of the unadulterated population of whites in the city of Washington. But it is as true now as it always has been, that the contact with a naturally criminal race, if constant and long-sustained, by a superior, sounder and better race, the latter in time will, morally, slowly but surely deteriorate through the sheer force of circumstances, not to say example. The crime of the one people is almost, nay, quite certain, to involve the acts of the other, and transitory acts in time become habits, and habits define the characteristics of the whole people. As long ago as 1891, I pointed out that the negroes in Washington constituted but one-third of the population, yet they furnished the great bulk of the criminal cases of all kinds. The police report ending for June 25, 1890, exhibited the following terrible record sustaining what I have just stated: Assaults on policemen, 162, by whites 75, by colored 87; assaults on special officers, 25, by whites 9, by colored 16. Last year three policemen were killed by negroes, two when attempting to arrest them, and there is scarcely a year that this does not occur. The article to which I refer I published in Science (Vol. xviii, No. 445, New York, August 14, 1891; pp. 94, 95), and in it I further said that in The Star (a Washington newspaper), of December 24, 1888, it was shown that there were then in jail, awaiting trial or sentence for murder, 16 persons, 2 white and 14 colored. Two years after (March 26, 1890), there were on the calendar 18 murder trials, the greater proportion by far having been committed by negroes.”
 

Replies: @Budd Dwyer, @Kronos, @Joseph Doaks, @Hail

Every night is “Purge Night” in the Hood.

https://youtu.be/K0LLaybEuzA

I've thought for years that the police in Black neighborhoods should take an extended coffee and donut break. Let the gangs handle the crime problem. But dat would be racis.

either the Wehrmacht or a bunch of American good old boys were pulling the trigger?
 

Replies: @Autochthon

Homicide rate is also kept down in no small part because of significant improvements in trauma care of gunshot wounds. That's due to the US being in a shooting war of almost constantly since 1991. ER doctors have either served themselves in a war zone or have learned form those who did. Your chances of surviving a gunshot wound today are much better than in 1989.

Used up my LOL already but that was perfect diction, Father.

Why would anyone trust numbers from the American government? From any government? Governments are, intrinsically, but collections of pathologically conniving and manipulative people. If recent events – those of, say, the past fifty years – have not revealed with glacial clarity to you that the F.U.S.A.'s government is just as despicable as any other, and more so than many, you've not been paying attention.

Even Cincinnatus was a fluke or a myth.

Replies: @bomag

This but also, Americans generally were not killing their own soldiers.

Replies: @istevefan

"Would a female professional living in an affluent suburb have,perhaps,a lesser likelihood of committing homicide than a black ghetto drugdealer?"

See? Now, that's just rayciss, Father. ;-)

Your right, despite an above average IQ, I just can’t see past my white privilege. Tiny Duck, your doing the lords work.

I think you meant "excepting AMs" since NAMs are always POCs (though not always Ms technically). Thus the preferred nomenclature NAMPOC

There has been some skirmishing around the edges about whether SAMPOCs and, more recently, SandPOCs are also intersectionally valid, whereas EA/SAT/ACTPOCs are rarely if ever systematically disemprivileged and sometimes serve as accessories to the producers of SHOWS (Straight-haired Overrepresented White Supremacy)

Oh, give me a break. Are you some narrow-minded jerk from Brooklyn or San Mateo?
Because that's the kind of uninformed, snarky remark I expect from such people. Why not throw in a hilariously original quip about rural people and incest? Audie Murphy was a good old boy. Chris Kyle was a good old boy. Gary Gordon was a good old boy. Hell, Andre Jackson, Ethan Allen, and Francis Marion were very much good old boys. I served with plenty of good old boys, and they were easily the most competent group of any; I expect other veterans will agree. Don't act like these guys are all doofuses from Kornfield Kounty who like to go fishing with M-80s.

Were the German soldiers of the Reich also respectable? Sure! But no more so than any American good old boy.

Replies: @Anonymous, @Counterinsurgency

Too bad. I hear that the real estate market is booming along the I-83 corridor just north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Next stop, York County, PA.

Replies: @Known Fact, @AceDeuce

A friend teaches int he Akron, Ohio, school system and lives in a nearly all-white suburb. I once asked her if there was public transportation to Akron and she replied, "Oh, no. We don't want them here."

And then there are Towson and Owings Mills. They used to be upscale.
 

Replies: @Prosa123

Thanks; I never heard of this film but I will now watch it.

Sorry forgot the link: https://archive.org/details/ShufeldtRobertWilsonTheNegroAMenaceToAmericanCivilization

Replies: @95Theses

It’s been empirically proven already. (In more ways than one.)

Thanks for the history lesson!

The police report ending for June 25, 1890, exhibited the following terrible record sustaining what I have just stated: Assaults on policemen, 162, by whites 75, by colored 87; assaults on special officers, 25, by whites 9, by colored 16.
 

in The Star (a Washington newspaper), of December 24, 1888, it was shown that there were then in jail, awaiting trial or sentence for murder, 16 persons, 2 white and 14 colored
 

What , me worry ?

Did they mug this guy for his lunch money? Can’t really inspire me to feel pity for him when he has a face which looks like that.
 

Replies: @Black Death, @Autochthon

You want:

https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/1140x640/public/wire/legacy/images/judge-dredd-trailer.jpg

You'd settle for:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/86/48/46/864846bbc81e585c7d7d2cb8e63c1084.jpg

You get:

https://cdn.s3-media.wbal.com/Media/2019/07/25/843aa650-c621-44ae-abc6-97d61544efd2/thumb-400.jpg

Replies: @Clyde, @Buzz Mohawk, @Jim Christian, @Chrisnonymous, @Ris_Eruwaedhiel

With that face, he was begging to be mugged.

Replies: @Art Deco

Like making Ducky Mallard's assistant on NCIS the Director. Or rather Assistant Director if there was one. Even Special Agent McGee would be better for the job.

His is a tale of the ironies faced by "goodwhites":

Deputy Commissioner Murphy and his wife were walking near Patterson Park when an SUV with four people stopped and two black men, believed to be about 18 years old, got out, displayed a handgun and announced a robbery. A purse, wallet, cash and cellphones were taken.

Irony #1
Murphy is the deputy commissioner of the Compliance Bureau responsible for overseeing compliance with the (post-Freddie Gray Baltimore riots) USDOJ consent decree that mandates “creating a culture of community and problem-oriented policing, prohibiting unlawful stops and arrests, preventing discriminatory policing, enhancing officer accountability and treating youth appropriate to their age,” in other words, “don't make the black kids angry.”

Irony#2
Murphy was hired earlier this year by Commissioner Michael Harrison, who he worked with in New Orleans.

Irony#3
Murphy was robbed a day after Harrison released new plans to reduce violent crime.

mugged, atomic wedgied and face dunked in toilet

So that's what Rick Moranis is doing these days.

Damn. He looks like Howdy Doody, only not as fierce.

Something the University of Chicago did decades ago.

I think a lot of universities have this: they have all the powers of cops but focus their energies exclusively on the area around the university. I assume it's done as a collaborative thing with the local PD and the university pays their salaries. University of Chicago and Yale both have this arrangement iirc.

Replies: @JMcG

Re Johns Hopkins: Not too long ago I read – perhaps right here on the Unz – that J.Hopkins was creating its very own police force.

 

Here in California every sqeedunk Community College has their own cops...with guns.

Thank you. As Jesse Lee Peterson might say, Amazing!

A fellow I worked with moved to the Southwest. He threw a party at his new apartment. Some guy insulted some chick. She stormed out.

A little while later, she came back with her boyfriend. Her armed boyfriend. He didn't shoot the offending man, he shot my old co-worker. Fatally.

So, yeah, "drive-by shooting gone wrong" happens all the time.

Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard, @Kronos

"Aggravated battery" for shooting a guy dead? That turns into jaywalking in the plea bargain. I think that undercharging violent black criminals is part of systemic hidden reparations in America.

When you are driving around with a guy and the two of you are looking to shoot someone, if anyone ends up dead for any reason everyone involved is guilty of murder under conspiracy law.

https://www.newsweek.com/chicago-driver-killed-driveby-1451284

What’s a “drive-by shooting gone right“, Newsweek?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBBni_-tMNs&t=51s

A Chicago man is believed to have accidentally shot the driver of the car he was traveling in dead, in what police are calling a drive-by shooting gone wrong
 

Replies: @Clyde, @William Badwhite

Waving a gun around in a moving vehicle, with those eyes?

Drive by shootings are a heavily g-loaded task for blacks it seems.

he was on parole!!!!!! I thought mass incarceration was unfairly putting people behind bars?

thanks! I must check to see if JH reveals their security spend ......maybe the city state or feds are picking up some of the tab

Johns Hopkins crime data: I have not gone thru it to draw conclusions

https://publicsafetyinitiatives.jhu.edu/maps-data/

It's not much different at the U of Chicago.

We visited there last summer with Daughter C. Our campus tour included a quick (but obviously obligatory) section on security, which highlighted the ubiquitous presence of campus police, and the many 'panic buttons' in easy reach in case of every vibrant form of assault one could imagine.

It's an impressive university, I like their free speech policy, and the campus police do seem to maintain the perimeter fairly effectively, but we decided it's not worth the worry.

Replies: @PiltdownMan, @Realist, @Flip, @Bigdicknick

I know there was talk of having a separate Hopkins police force. There was pushback from activists. Bloomberg, a big contributor to Hopkins, was behind the effort for a separate police force. I believe they got approval but may not have implemented it yet.

The area by the hospital is worse than the area by the university. Employees, patients have been robbed or worse. Also behind the scenes, if Hopkins had its way they’d move the hospital out of the city. They already quietly move out some specialities. There really is a concern of doing births in the city as city juries are known to be some of the worst in the country. They’ll grant judgements against the hospital even in cases where the hospital seems to be in the right.

One case that really upset them was when a woman did an at home birth, had issues, delayed going to the hospital. She finally did but the baby was born with issues due to a lack of oxygen. She blamed & she’d the hospital and won at the time a record judgement. Hospital leadership was furious.

Replies: @El Dato, @Bigdicknick, @Anonymous, @Clyde

If superheroes existed, they would likely be banned for disparate impact. Or receive the same flak police get. They’d be spending 50% (at least) of their time kicking the crap out of black people. You’d see affirmative action for black superheroes with disastrous results.

https://youtu.be/FVP4zUJkcq8

That's Gold, Jerry!

Albuquerque by chance?

Replies: @Reg Cæsar

Death by “uninvited party guest” is a thing.

I mainly agree, but gov'ts are supposed to dissemble on behalf of their citizens, at least tangentially.

The US is in a phase where the central authorities actively work against the natives on behalf of those far away.

It's a formation that assumes the three man mugging team mentioned elsewhere in comments. OK as long as that's the threat, not so good if there's a coordinated effort to get through. Several distractions and the system falls apart. Fortunately, there's no target within the cordon that's worth a coordinated effort. Heck, politically the university and the Blacks are allies. The cordon is what the Black's _friends_ need.

Wasn't that way about a decade back. No visible guards at all, back then. The University was leading with its chin, back then.

Counterinsurgency

There was a similar defensive ring established at the world-famous hospital after the murder of a doctor whose body was found stuffed into her car at a supposedly secure facility parking lot. Imagine what would happen to the Saudi princes and their green-garbed harems if they strolled beyond the guarded perimeter on East Monument Street.

I should add that every one of the security guards was black, and probably half of them were women. I don’t think they were up to battling either the Red Army or the Wehrmacht. But, Hopkins kills two birds with one stone: they beef up their affirmative action numbers and they deter the typical Baltimore criminal from entering the campus. And they get to retain their traditional open campus, rather than having to go to the walled or fortress style urban campus.

Owen J Roberts High School, bear Pottstown, PA, has its own police force. I was astonished. A high school!

"The Trousers Come Down" is more like real life.


http://projects.nyujournalism.org/nyuprecollege2016/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2016/08/saggy-pants.jpg

Depends on what you call 'good ole boys'. I wouldn't categorize any of the people you mentioned that way, although they may have had elements of that. To me, a GOB is a goober, likeable, not especially dumb, but not an overachiever by any means.

Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Autochthon

Don’t act like these guys are all doofuses
 

Were the German soldiers of the Reich also respectable? Sure! But no more so than any American good old boy.
 

Replies: @Hibernian, @Ris_Eruwaedhiel, @Autochthon

Along with Hot Summers Day, White Bird is an all time great from the late 60's-early 70's....both from It's A Beautiful Day

An minimum, they should have a human right to asylum in Northwest Washington DC…
 

Replies: @Hail, @bomag

“White Flight” is a weird complaint if you reduce it to a person-to-person relationship:

I hate you! You are evil! You are the cause of all my problems! Hey, why are you going away?? Come back!! Wait!!!!
 

Replies: @Kronos

As the old vaudeville joke went, "Never let that bastard back in here-- unless we need him."

"Come back!! Wait!!!!"

"Who goan pay fo' mah heffcayuh?

Your comment is a joke, right? Tell me it's a joke.

if you want to become President, or remain President, you shouldn’t insult millions of people in one casual comment.
 

Trump should also keep in mind that 11% of Baltimore City voted for him – he’s bashing some of his own people.
 

Replies: @Pericles

Trump lost Maryland to Clinton by something like 34% to 60%. He doesn't have to worry about losing Maryland again, he already won't win there. However, he is reminding people in other states that Baltimore is the future of America if the Dems take over. I think it's a smart statement for motivating clear-thinking people to vote for him.

anyone who was ever going to vote for trump agreed with his comments. you seriously have to be an NPC to get offended by an accurate description of a place. It's like the shitholers comment he (allegedly) made.

Anyone who is like "haiti is totally NOT a shithole you bigot!" is either severely brainwashed or has an ulterior motive and was never reachable.

Trump should also keep in mind that 11% of Baltimore City voted for him
 

Trump received 8% of the black vote in 2016. I don't think he is counting on the black vote to put him back in the White House. What Hillary did was completely different. Whites are still 70% of the electorate and (even though she didn't think so - math not her strong suite) she NEEDED the votes of Deplorables to win.

Dems insult Trump every day, from the leadership to the press to the Party base. Read the NY Times and its comments section. They call him a liar right in the news section, not just on the editorial page. If there's a story about how cheese no longer tastes as good as it used to, people write in to say that it's Trump's fault. If there's a story about the Chinese dictatorship oppressing its own people, people write to say that Trump is even worse. There's nothing bad happening in the world that's not linked to Trump.

Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @MikeW, @Anon

' ...Trump should also keep in mind that 11% of Baltimore City voted for him...'

You need to study how the electoral college works.

The 11% of Baltimoreans who voted for Trump know that what he said is the truth.

Wrong, Mike. He's bashing the city government. Except for a handful of white cops, nobody in city government is likely to have voted for him.

He wasn't bashing Baltimore. He was bashing hypocritical Baltimore politicians who can't be bothered to try to do something about their fair city.

That's the problem. Nobody gets anything.

It would be a big improvement. The last Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa just got ten months in the slammer for tax evasion. The last mayor, Catherine Pugh, resigned in disgrace and is facing corruption charges.

Sadly, although he is of course an actor, Selleck would probably be a better police commissioner – he is a pretty conservative guy, with the accompanying, realistic understanding of human nature, and a supporter of the N.R.A. (with an accompanying, realistic understanding of firearms' role in crimes and their prevention).

Anyone who stomps someone in the head like that should be prosecuted for attempted murder if the victim survives.

That was (sort of) interesting. The number of them calling themselves Queen or Princess was funny. A very delusional people.

Goober, like on TV?

I can only imagine "...Glen Miller..." and I have a different idea of what we'd call "good old boys" than you do, and that's fair enough.

Replies: @Anonymous

https://youtu.be/5-3ckX-zSHw

Yeah, a head-scratcher.

Schooldigger.com lists race composition as 45% Hispanic, 36% White. White % ticking down each year.

https://www.greatschools.org/california/burbank/1558-Bret-Harte-Elementary-School/#Students

Same happening in Arlington VA. $1.5 million for a home doesn't necessarily buy a good public high school anymore.

Replies: @Abolish_public_education, @Anonymous

What else would you expect from Yglesias?

MD 7 has strange boundaries -- it includes large suburban and probably rural areas that are no doubt inhabited by a significant number of higher-earning Whites (and others) who don't want to live anywhere near heavily black Baltimore, which is at the eastern end of the lower portion -- per this link, population of MD 7 was approx 740k in 2012 (assume it's about the same today) -- current population of Baltimore is approx 620k -- if you take Baltimore to be 65% black (probably a bit low), that means approx 405k of MD 7 is Blacks who live in Baltimore -- so it's been effectively gerrymandered to be perenially represented by a Black -- I wonder how all of the other MD 7 residents feel about that? -- 'rule by Baltimore'.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Maryland_US_Congressional_District_7_%28since_2013%29.tif/lossless-page1-1200px-Maryland_US_Congressional_District_7_%28since_2013%29.tif.png

Replies: @eah, @res

This is such a bad take. We really have a horrid media. It’s a gerrymandered district. Cummings himself rarely goes to the suburban part of his district. He doesn’t have to. He does make a big deal of going to his city residence everyday.

Anyway the median income of whites in his district is $100k of blacks $40k. It’s hilarious that Yglesias, Silver are dying on this hill.

Replies: @Jack D

Replacement Therapy: "Comment Jews" are invited to live for a month in certain areas of "above-average median income and educational attainment" to get a feel for the area. Respectable daily allowances are provided by the State.

And don’t forget Economic Enterprise Zones ala AEI.

Just standard R strategy reproductive behavior. Males do only one significant thing during their life, and if they're social mammals they fight over it. Not fighting gives the same outcome as fighting and losing -- although the cause of death might be different, that doesn't matter in the long run.

Counterinsurgency

This could be called a dark truth then. - And what would be selected for in this process? - To answer this question, one would have to have the numbers. Like numbers of those who under such circumstances do reproduce and those who would rather not etc. - and such findidings might turn into an even darker truth then. - So sad I almost lose my humor.

Unfortunately so many of them have already reproduced.

Perceptive and true...sadly my lol posting time at Unz has temporarily run out

Easy to do, if you’re in the right hand seat and target shows up to the left of the car.
 

Replies: @William Badwhite

"community activist speaks about gun violence"

Those guns sure are violent.

Replies: @Jim Don Bob

At least in that photo he looks like an associate professor sociology at Iowa State.

Similarly,


We want:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1b/16/93/1b1693b6d5e6f949f38a95d7c543ef10.jpg


We'd settle for:

http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/02/Donald-Trump-Andrew-Jackson-Jan-2017-Oval-Office-Getty-640x480.jpg


We got:

http://217.218.67.233/photo/20180105/d61b05fd-aec9-4577-8814-02621baa9437.jpg

Replies: @Ed, @Clyde

When did gay men start wearing the large-frame feminist problem-solving glasses?

https://cdn.s3-media.wbal.com/Media/2019/07/25/843aa650-c621-44ae-abc6-97d61544efd2/thumb-400.jpg

Replies: @Kronos

Maybe he's Ed Exley.

He has a wife, so he's not gay.

Gosh, I had more testostrone when I was his age (c.40?) and I'm female. I

It’s Who We Are.
 

...and displaced Sidwell Friends students will go to Baltimore public schools. It's only fair.

Here's a tip for you, Counter: If you're gonna play cyber tough guy, leave guys' mamas out of it.

I daresay the average iq is lower than that. We're dealing with the dredges of Black society and they have a lot of kids. After all, the adults live on the welfare money the kid brings in. Middle-class Blacks aren't reproducing themselves

Replies: @Autochthon, @Counterinsurgency, @Art Deco

I don't believe for a minute the intelligence quotient of the typical "good ole boy" is eighty. You can only support that kind of claim by narrowly defining the term the way the anonymous guy who started this discussion seems to have.

In any event, intelligence quotients are not the be-all, end-all of marksmanship, which was one of the primary aspects of his point (unless I misunderstood that, too, as I did his apparent intent to define good ole boys as only the stupidest of their number). Eyesight, in fact, is one of the single moat important aspects of marksmanship, and its as independent of intelligence as are fast-twitch muscles. Shooting a firearm is not rocket-science (unless you're a military sniper targeting people a mile away!) – give me a reasonably attentive, even if stupid, kid with excellent eyesight and a steady hand, and I'll have him shooting at an expert level in a week, at most.

Replies: @Counterinsurgency

Look, in politics you help your _friends_ and implement _their_ policies. You don’t help your enemies and implement their policies.

 

Replies: @Counterinsurgency

Someone who can afford a $1.5M home, or even 1/7 of it, should be sending its kids to private school.

Replies: @Anonymous

Same happening in Arlington VA. $1.5 million for a home doesn’t necessarily buy a good public high school anymore.
 

Replies: @Twodees Partain

No correlation here folks, move along...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAf6_0kUIAAME4R.png

Replies: @eah

That's an impressive example of gerrymandering, but its neighbor MD 3 is even worse.
https://newrepublic.com/article/109938/marylands-3rd-district-americas-most-gerrymandered-congressional-district

https://images.newrepublic.com/2075ac44a8eb9c29cafc97b887f855972811cb7b.jpeg

MD 2 is almost as bad. Both 2 and 3 are majority white and it looks to me like their contortions are meant to allow MD 4 and MD 7 to be majority black.

This is a detailed look at MD's congressional districts along with racial breakdowns and some hypothetical possibilities:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-maps/maryland/

I wonder what it would look like to superimpose a fine grained racial demographics map on those districts? Turns out it is actually not that hard to do that over at http://maryland.us.censusviewer.com/client
That site has an amazing amount of flexibility and offers data for all states.

Click on race and turn on a choropleth using 2010 US census blocks then under boundaries turn on 2011 Congressional Districts and make the lines wider and a conspicuous color (I used green). Using the 538 map to help me navigate the CD convolutions I could get a sense of the racial distribution in different parts of the CDs.

It looks to me like much of the contortions are due to trying to diffuse black representation while maintaining as many majorities as possible. The things that jump out at me are:
- MD 4 includes black concentrations near both DC and Baltimore enabling a black majority.
- MD 7 includes much of Baltimore ensuring a black majority then also incorporates a big chunk of white suburbia. Tricky way of letting the city rule the suburbs to some extent.
- MD 2 wraps around Baltimore picking up black concentrations on both sides, but not enough to make a majority.

The way the districts are drawn in the region between Baltimore and Washington DC is amazingly perverse.

Replies: @Reg Cæsar

Albuquerque by chance?
 

Back when I was very young I had a business selling things door to door. I made a fair amount of money, nothing wonderful, and was working with another boy who didn't quite do as well. My advice from my more or less upper middle class relatives (which I followed) was to give enough of my money to the other boy to equalize profits.

That's right -- give away my money so that the other person wouldn't feel bad.

In other words, the money was valueless compared to other person's feelings, and I'd probably made a minor mistake by outdoing the other boy, but could fix it by giving the money away.

In yet other words, if you have something, give it away to whoever doesn't.

And that's how the Anglo Saxon Protestants gave away the US.


Counterinsurgency

Those guns sure are violent.
 

Looking back, the PiltdownParents are quite relieved that PiltdownChild1 chose to not go to Johns Hopkins, even though our wallets are unhappy. It has a sizeable endowment, and it competes fiercely with significant financial aid to make students choose Hopkins over peer institutions.

Baltimore's murder rate makes it not just the most dangerous city in America, but puts it in the league of the most dangerous in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate

Replies: @Jack D, @Autochthon, @BengaliCanadianDude

The University of Chicago is impressive academically, sadly is is located in a shit hole.

Hyde Park is actually reasonably safe but the neighborhood is kind of boring and lacking in amenities for a major university.

I visited that area about a year ago. I grabbed a student newspaper and ....I shit you not the front page had an article about local "youths" attacking students at random and beating the shit out of them. I took a picture of the front page.

SHOCKINGLY this didn't make national news. or maybe even local news outside of the student paper.

Can you imagine of gangs of white "youths" were beating the shit out of random black students? our great grandchildren would literally read about it in text books 100 years from now.

You got better than you can ever hope for. You won’t get anything remotely close afterwards.

Replies: @Buzz Mohawk

If you are ever in or near Nashville check out Andrew Jackson's home called The Hermitage. It is set on 50 acres or more. It is a relaxing rural visit.

You might say. He looks like a particular subtype of suburban high school student, ca. 1969. Not police material at all.

From white flight to hospital flight.

Next someone will complain about "medical deserts" as happened earlier with the "food deserts".

good lord. Great example of how our justice system is basically unworkable if black people are the majority. See: OJ and the response to the Trayvon case. Imagine if Zimmerman's jury was made up of all woke black women?

Bloomberg, a big contributor to Hopkins, was behind the effort for a separate police force.
 

Replies: @Dan Hayes

Is this the one? https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-hopkins-medical-malpractice-record-20190702-story.html

Replies: @Ed

https://katiespeakdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/please-sir-may-i-have-some-more.gif?w=700

My post does not preclude the truth to which you refer. It simply evokes the disappointing facts of the situation.

I want more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIULR5NbBss

Prior to the most recent redistricting, the same thing applied in my area. The township that I live in is one of the most prosperous in Pennsylvania but we were represented by Congress by Chaka Fattah Jr. (currently in Federal prison for corruption) because most of the district was the black ghetto of West Philadelphia. I'd be willing to bet that the average income in the district was also above the PA average for the exact same reason. My area has been tipping blue for a while so the idea (by the Republican controlled legislature) was to create a safe Republican seat further to the west by attaching the questionable areas to an urban district that was going to be Democrat anyway. As you say, Fattah paid no attention whatsoever to his white suburban constituents.

In general, Philly was, until fairly recently, not unlike Baltimore, 100 miles SW - Baltimore had Hopkins and its hospital, Philly had Penn and its hospital. They both had black ghettos with lots of homicides. But in the last few years Philly seems to be on the upswing and Baltimore has declined. Maybe it was just a matter of luck that Freddie Gray took his paddy wagon ride in Baltimore.

Replies: @Art Deco, @SunBakedSuburb, @PV van der Byl, @Ex-University City, @AnotherDad, @Buzz Mohawk, @AceDeuce

Here's the actual tweet -- I only saved an image of it:

https://twitter.com/IWantFreecos/status/1113148897914949634

Replies: @El Dato, @SaneClownPosse

People keep saying the number of shooting fatalities has been reduced by improved trauma care, but according to a 2016 series in the Baltimore Sun, that is not the case.

In Baltimore, one of every three people struck by gunfire dies, up from one death in every four shootings the previous decade. It ranks as one of the most lethal of America's largest cities, according to a Baltimore Sun analysis. Two other cities — Washington and New Orleans — shared the brutal distinction of one in three shootings ending in a homicide in 2015. Like Baltimore, several cities have seen the death grip tighten. In Chicago, one in 10 people died after being shot in 2000; now one in six perishes.

Last year, the odds for gunshot victims worsened in at least 10 of the nation's largest cities, The Sun found....

In Baltimore, where there were nearly 1,000 shootings last year, a one-in-four lethality rate means about 250 victims die. A one-in-three rate means more than 330 people die. So even if shootings subside, the number of gun deaths remains elevated.

On the streets, particularly in poor, black neighborhoods, residents are witnessing increasingly deadly tactics. More shooters are aiming for the head and firing multiple rounds into victims.

The number of fatal head shots in the city rose steadily from about 13 percent two decades ago to 62 percent last year. Meanwhile, the number of cadavers with 10 or more bullets more than doubled in the past decade, according to the Maryland medical examiner’s office, which tallied the bullet wounds at the request of The Sun.

Now, roughly two-thirds of city homicide victims are either shot in the head or multiple times. Many suffer both fates.

Guns have also become more deadly, as the weapon of choice for criminals and then law enforcement shifted from the revolver to the semiautomatic pistol, which can fire more bullets without reloading. Nationally, the number of 9 mm and .40-caliber guns taken off the streets surged during the past four years, as seizures of less powerful .22-caliber guns remained relatively flat.

In Maryland, seizures of 9 mm handguns overtook .22-caliber guns for the first time last year....

Many of the guns are equipped with extended magazines, allowing a shooter to fire from a distance and “walk down” a victim, continuously firing. The sale of “extendos” with more than 10 rounds are banned in Maryland, where they are prized in street cultures, tucked under belts and into pants as a fashion statement. In Baltimore, police are finding up to 80 shell casings at a single crime scene.
 

"Hussle man a shooter, that's a fact, n----
32 extendos in my MAC, n----"

http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/shoot-to-kill/

Replies: @bomag, @eah, @Achmed E. Newman

Same as for "war casualties" really.

Still a Black problem.
Individuals casually resorting to extreme violence inappropriately.
Quickly acting without thinking.
A survival skill necessary in Africa.
Perhaps, also necessary in Black Run America.

How come Jews get to claim genetic superiority, yet the concept of genetic inferiority cannot be ascribed to specific races by non-Jews. /rhetorical

I don't know -- I interviewed a school official from York maybe 20 years ago and he told me the gangs were already a big problem. So you'd want to be way out in the country. Google York crime and you get "Within Pennsylvania, more than 96% of communities have a lower crime rate than York."

Replies: @Hank Yobo

The city of York has already been sh*thole-ized, in much the same way as Ballmer.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAf6_0sVUAMpbcT.jpg

Replies: @Autochthon

That's a clever and hilarious use of the commenting platform. I commend you.

N.B., the black portion of Chicago's population has been declining and is currently one-third of the total. Lightfoot's election isn't an example of black chauvinism, though there's indubitably a great deal of that among some of her supporters. The most parsimonious explanation is that it's the consequence of a taste for vandalism among a multi-hued cross-section of the city's electorate.

I've been a around this one way or another for a long time. Charts are interesting, but chart people are fools. "Resistance" is a psychological phenomenon, and as such it is not subject to logic.

"Technical analysis" of stock prices is nothing of the sort. It always fails at some point, after which the "experts" get up, wipe themselves off, and go back to telling suckers where to put their money.

There is an old joke: If your stock broker is so good, then why does he still have to work? I've known a lot of stock brokers, and essentially was one as a wholesaler of funds.

Now, when it comes to Blacks in America shooting each other, that is another story. Steve's chart analysis is spot on. He knows exactly what he is talking about.

A few years back there was a program to rotate military doctors (Whether regular or reserve or both I don't remember.) through inner city emergency rooms. Don't know if it's still being done.

Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Jim Christian

Or take in some of the migrants.

Maybe it was just a matter of luck that Freddie Gray took his paddy wagon ride in Baltimore.

No, Baltimore's long been run by idiots.

Replies: @JMcG

"paddy wagon"

I find your anti-Irish bigotry distressing.

You must have been pleased with redistricting, then! Scott Perry seems like a major improvement.

It wasn't luck for Philly. It was a gentrification/public safety program carried out by Penn. I believe the working title was called "You Blacks Are Going to Love Living in Delaware County". Mission accomplished, the formerly White communities of Upper Darby, Darby, Colwyn, and the other inner-ring suburbs were destroyed. Upper Darby and Colwyn being near and dear to my heart. There isn't even a statue to memorialize the former Whites who lived there.

Replies: @JMcG

In general, Philly was, until fairly recently, not unlike Baltimore, 100 miles SW – Baltimore had Hopkins and its hospital, Philly had Penn and its hospital. They both had black ghettos with lots of homicides. But in the last few years Philly seems to be on the upswing and Baltimore has declined.
 

Replies: @Ex-University City

I remember seeing cars up on blocks, wheels and parts removed, as my father drove me through "Philly" to Connie Mack Stadium. He preferred to take me to Phillies games instead of Yankees or Mets, even though we lived halfway between during that four years of my boyhood.

He told me that if you parked on the street there near the stadium, a little black kid would come up to you and offer to "watch your car, mister" for a price. If you wanted to, you could pay him and take your chances.

That is not to say that stripping of cars doesn't happen in New York City. One day there on business, just off Broadway, right in front of a hotel entrance, I saw a BMW 6 Series up on blocks, Philly style, will all four of its beautiful alloy wheels gone. The brake disks shone beautifully in the lunchtime light.

BTW I've I had a long time connection to Bucks County. My sister got married and has remained there ever since. I even rode my ten-speed bike there a few times from our part of Hunterdon County, NJ and visited her in New Hope.

Replies: @hhsiii

Actually it was Chaka Fattah Sr (born Arthur Davenport) who was the ghettorat Congresscretin.

His son CF Jr, AKA "Chip" (LOL) was a junior grifter-both dad and son were tossed in the clink around the same time for corruption.

It’s actually a handsome city which could be a great deal better than it is.
 

Replies: @Art Deco

So has Philadelphia.

Honestly, you don't need to worry much about sending your kids to Chicago or Philly or Baltimore, etc. The schools do have excellent security. Most murders involve ghetto males killing each other at 3AM. If you are not a ghetto male and you are safe in your dorm at 3AM then you have nothing to worry about. Virtually none of those hundreds of murders involve white college students. You have to exercise common sense. Don't go jogging alone at 3AM. Get a really good bike lock. Never leave your laptop unattended. But your life is also in danger out in the sticks where you will be spending more time on the road as a driver or passenger. Once you subtract out the reduced vehicular risk, it's probably a wash.

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Saint Louis scoffs at the poseurs in Baltimore, but, per capita, Stockton, Modesto, Merced, Fresno, and Bakersfield can't even be bothered to scoff at either also-ran. The mestizos work harder and commit more crime than native Negroes – ia there anything they can't do?!

¡El Valle Central, Ese!

(Gilroy is doing its part as I type.)

My niece was looking to study at John Hopkins for something related to Life Sciences, or Health Sciences or something like that. I heard from an old friend that it was a really good school for the field she wanted to go into, but I also told her that it was really unsafe, and possibly not worth it. She was ecstatic about the admission letter, but in the end she picked Imperial College London

Replies: @Curmudgeon

Now we’ve got ourselves a dialog!
 

Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

A few years back there was a program to rotate military doctors (Whether regular or reserve or both I don’t remember.) through inner city emergency rooms.
 

Replies: @Autochthon

A few years back there was a program to rotate military doctors (Whether regular or reserve or both I don’t remember.) through inner city emergency rooms. Don’t know if it’s still being done.
 

I’ve noticed for a few years that 1950s-1960s clothing (especially men’s suits) are coming back in fashion. I’m sure it started with the show “Mad Men.”

But yeah, you have SJW fat chicks taking the 1950s thick glasses by storm. I’m pretty sure they’re often clear lenses as well. “I don’t need glasses but I want the thickest pair of frames you got, I need to look smartzie.”

Trump received 8% of the black vote in 2016. I don’t think he is counting on the black vote to put him back in the White House.
 

I don't have any problem with Trump dissing Dems or protesters who are attacking him. I'm just saying he shouldn't go after a whole city, one that, like any other city, has slackers and hard workers, retired veterans and criminals. Trump always uses too broad a brush with his insults. That's dumb politically and, well, it's deplorable.

Replies: @Anonymous

"math not her strong suite"

And English isn't yours, I guess. But after all, only STEM matters, right?

If you are talking about the shooter rather than the long deceased bandleader, I live not five miles from where he did his shooting and I was warned by people I know to never talk to the guy or associate with him years before. He's not a GOB, he's a deranged idiot who was probably put up to it by state actors, possibly BATFE or FBI.

A GOB is a generally well meaning and basically decent but not terribly smart guy, usually from a rural or agricultural background, drinks popular brands of pisswater, watches sportsball and NASCAR, et al. Probably goes to a church with Christian Zionist tendencies and contemporary music rather than a pipe organ. Goes to work every day, not a liability to society, but not going to cure cancer or get us to Mars. Generally likeable unless provoked.

In wartime, he is best employed in a rear echelon job where he will be an asset. He'll get killed early on the front lines.

Replies: @Autochthon

I lived there for several years. What I've seen of the suburbs are ordinary enough. The core city has a great deal of unusual housing stock in styles not much seen elsewhere. (Philadelphia is like this too). There were (and I think there remain) agreeable neighborhoods here there and the next place. The metropolitan area as a whole is moderately affluent. However, you do have these wretched urban slums. They're a great deal worse than they were in 1980. There's nothing inherent in that, it's just a persistent refusal of the political class in Baltimore to provide the most consequential of public goods: public order.

The schools do have excellent security.

Chuckles. When I lived there, the Homewood campus employed a mean of 5 guards on a shift and there were no emergency phones (which had in that era already been installed at the University of Chicago).

I can only speak on Baltimore. You do need to worry about your kids in Baltimore or at the very least give them some safety tips. While murder of Hopkins kids is extremely rare robberies aren't.

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/hopkins-grad-student-robbed-attacked-by-4-suspects


https://www.wbaltv.com/article/johns-hopkins-students-robbed-at-gunpoint/27103696

A few years ago a Hopkins kids caught a burglar kn the act, he had a samurai sword with him. He ended up slicing the burglar's hand off causing him to die. There was some talk of charging him but they never did.

Replies: @hhsiii

My alma mater didn't need a police department, but it had one anyway. As a poor student refusing to borrow money, I even applied to work for them -- but fortunately found another job. In the process, and later as a resident advisor, I learned a lot about how they functioned. It was, essentially, a police department, so I don't know why here now that seems to be so special.

In response to your comment, I would just say that there are college locations where you and your precious don't have to have such concerns in the back of your minds. The most they have ever gotten in my old college town was a six-year-old beauty queen murdered by her parent(s). The town was so peaceful that the justice professionals didn't even know what to do about that one. (One of the few Blacks there raped my ex-girlfriend, just to prove a statistical point.)

I would recommend avoiding a college where you have to even think about such concerns. And more importantly, I would strongly recommend at this point taking a good look at the opportunity cost of going to college at all. If you don't have a good major, don't even bother.

Very similar story in Brazil, where most murders involve black or pardo males in their 20s. Murder of tourists is rare. Robberies... not so much, but you can improve your chances pretty easily.

Just exercise common sense and you'll be fine. Don't flaunt your valuables while speaking English loudly, don't go into unpacified favelas or cracklands (I stupidly did and managed to be left alone, but that was luck) alone, don't get involved with drugs, don't walk alone at night if you are a woman, don't get into a van with suspicious looking young local men alone, that kind of thing. Tourists who get murdered or robbed more often than not did one of these things. It's not enough to guarantee safety, but nothing is.

Replies: @David Davenport

Honestly, you don’t need to worry much about sending your kids to Chicago or Philly or Baltimore, etc. The schools do have excellent security. Most murders involve ghetto males killing each other at 3AM. If you are not a ghetto male and you are safe in your dorm at 3AM then you have nothing to worry about.
 

As far as schools are concerned, no White kid would last more than a couple of days at any Black school in these cities. White teachers seldom last.

Someone who can afford a $1.5M home, or even 1/7 of it, should be sending its kids to private school.
 

There are several such programmes in hospitals which train corpsmen and other medical specialists working with or as special operators, as well as military surgeons and nurses generally, via collaborations with the navy, army, and air force's medical and nursing corps.

One of the most famous is in Trenton (why not Camden, though?!); the navy actually runs its own outfit with the University of Southern California in Steve's backyard.

L.A. (and, doubtless, places like Trenton and Miami) was chosen "because of the volume and types of surgeries performed [t]here."

That's the definition of diplomacy, right there.

For a white to criticize — even to notice! — the black intifada against whites — even against each other! — is now to court being accused of racism.
 

After the Obama presidency ended, I believe the Obama’s moved to an exclusive part of Chicago.
 

Random gunfire is just extreme littering.

I don’t have any problem with Trump dissing Dems or protesters who are attacking him. I’m just saying he shouldn’t go after a whole city, one that, like any other city, has slackers and hard workers, retired veterans and criminals. Trump always uses too broad a brush with his insults. That’s dumb politically and, well, it’s deplorable.
 

That's why I wrote York County. I saw a tremendous boom in housing just north of the M-D Line the last time I was there. The traffic heading north along I-83 in the evenings was much greater than I remembered. White flight first to Baltimore County and now to southern Pennsylvania.

Whoops, the tub of goo was the shooter, not the driver.