No-go zones in America?

americanthinker.com ^ | 12/15/2015 | Thomas Lifson

[FreedomPoster]

I go to a political breakfast meeting most Saturdays. Last Saturday one of the discussion items was Islam, in the wake of San Bernardino and Paris, and the issue of no-go zones in France came up.

One of the regulars, a black guy, commented, “Hell, we’ve got those here, just look at the West End.” That would be the West End of the City of Atlanta, which is overwhelmingly black, and has a very high crime rate.

So this phenomenon has not gone unnoticed, and it isn’t just Chicago by any means.

[FreedomPoster]

RAH was amazingly prescient.

[Red Badger]

I just finished reading that aforementioned book. There are, in places, inserted texts of ‘newscasts’ of the day, mid 21st century, that I am sure he put in as tongue-in-cheek type satire, but they read almost like today’s ACTUAL news!.....................

[mumblypeg]

“No revenue from section-8 types, so why bother with them?”

That’s the conundrum. Cops won’t go into high crime areas to make arrests, because it’s (gasp!) dangerous!

During a meeting between cop leaders and my Neighborhood Watch group, we wanted to know why we couldn’t get something as basic as regular patrols, as a deterrent, in our neighborhood.
We had thugs openly trafficking drugs, and 911 calls brought sporadic, slow response. The dealers would disappear like cockroaches, then come right back.
We wanted to know, why did an upscale, no-crime area area nearby have constant, 24/7 patrols, while our high crime area got none ?
The PD captain actually blurted, “Well, those officers are working paid detail. The people in that neighborhood pay extra for that service.”
So the name of the game was to get paid twice—a tax-funded salary, plus paid detail, often as not during the same shift—while avoiding having to actually confront criminals or brawl with thugs.
As an added bonus, those double-paid details never, ever resulted in claims of racial harassment.