Heather Mac Donald in City Journal, Praising Compstat

By An Old Friend
To: Nicholas Stix
Sent: Tue, Aug 18, 2020 10:52 p.m.

Compstat?

AOF: From my archive:

9/3/06 from a Heather MacDonald article in City Journal
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_3_ny_cops.html

“A Harlem sergeant describes a typical incident of non-reporting: ‘Last weekend,’ he says, ‘a known neighborhood knucklehead hit a kid. In retaliation, the kid’s whole family shows up at the perp’s apartment. The victim’s sisters kick in the apartment door. But the knucklehead’s mother beat the shit out of the sisters, leaving them lying on the floor with blood coming from their mouths.

“‘The victim’s family was looking for a fight: I could charge them with trespass. The perp’s mother is eligible for assault three for beating up the opposing family. But all of them were street shit, garbage. They will get justice in their own way. I told them: ‘We can all go to jail, or we can call it a wash.’ Otherwise, you’d have six bodies in prison for BS behavior. The district attorney would have been pissed. And none of them would ever show up in court.’ So the officer sent the families packing, leaving the assaults off his ledger.”

N.S.: I bolded a ridiculous statement by Mac Donald below, and added missing words, in brackets.

“These observations—from inner-city residents and academics alike—tread taboo ground. They suggest that one of the most effective ways of reducing crime is to replace the urban underclass—only a small percentage of whom actively engage in criminal activity—with wealthier, [Whiter] more socially engaged residents. Fagan quickly distances himself from the implications of what he is saying: “I’m not arguing for gentrification as a solution to crime,” he objects. But commanders who have witnessed New York’s liberation from crime offer support for the theory. Neighborhoods with high concentrations of housing projects always have greater crime problems than the rest of the city, they say, because the local [black] criminal population entrenches itself so deeply there.”

N.S.: My archive of articles, by me and others, debunking Compstat, can be found here:

http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2019/02/everyone-knows-that-crime-went-down-for.html
“‘Everyone Knows’ that Crime Went Down for over 20 Years—Everyone but Me.”