[Man of the Right]

If you go to Paris and stay at least a couple of days, the odds are overwhelming you'll be robbed or will witness a robbery, often in front of a flic armed with a machine pistol. I'm 3 for 3 my last 3 visits.

In terms of tolerance for street crime, the authorities make David Dinkins look like Rudy Guliani on a day Guliani's former wife denied him sex.

[July 4th]

If you go to Paris and stay at least a couple of days, the odds are overwhelming you'll be robbed or will witness a robbery, often in front of a flic armed with a machine pistol. I'm 3 for 3 my last 3 visits.

I was there for about 6 weeks a few months ago, and didn't see any robberies. However, I did see "les flics" beat the crap out of a homeless guy on the other side of the metro platform for harassing a tourist. Rather entertaining - one of the officers shouted "look away" in French while they beat the guy.