Now I know that Rich James has given up smoking; but what drugs was he on when he wrote this piece of lying garbage. Who is he trying to fool? Since when did he become g-d and somehow whatever he says miraculously becomes so?
Gary crime reduction vital for city's growth :: Opinion :: Post-Tribune.
James actually wrote in this piece that "(t)here are reasons that Gary is becoming a safer city." What "safer city?" What planet is he on. Everyone who is sober knows that Gary is not any safer, period. On the first day of the year a visitor to Gary was shot three time on a house porch. The idiot known as Rich James goes further and state that, "Is Gary a safe city today? Not yet. But it is considerably safer than it was in 1995 and has been every year since." That is just absolutely not true. It is a lie to bolster his wife's boss, the Sheriff and to help Mayor Clay. The sad thing is that James' whole career has been a series of lies that he has published to fool the people of Lake County and NWI.
The beginning of the editorial is quite clear. "It was 14 years ago when 132 homicides were recorded in the city of Gary. In 2009, there were 49 homicides -- a 63 percent reduction. That is significant." It is not significant when you population has dropped that much in that period of time. Gary used to have over 175,000 people living and working there now it has less than 70,000 people and most of them do not work there. You also have to dumb and blind not to recognize that we are ONLY talking about homicides and NOT about any other kind of violent crime.
If Gary is so much "safer", why does not anyone, either from Gary or not, willing to test it. It is the significant increase in crime that has closed all privately owned eating businesses in Gary, never to open.
The editorial does point out that there has been a 17% reduction in violent crime; but really no one blieves it. All of us know better because we go out and experience it differently. One should also point out, if one was a real journalist and not a pitiful drunk lier that violent crime has been reduced over the past year in every city and town in the United States according to the FBI. Consequently, it would seem to indicate that there is NOTHING that Gary has done right. At best it is just an accident of fate. What it does prove is that there are many people in Gary who are natural criminals; it does but to rest the idea that poverty and lack of education etc. have any causal relations to crime. I used to remember former Mayor Scott King when he first got into office talking to people outside Gary asking for jobs and employment and Gary would have no crime. Wrong. No matter what you do for Gary as far as more money, jobs, etc. the crime culture will continue. That is the cancer that has to seared out before anyone will ever look seriously at Gary as a civilized place.
The editorial in the Post-Tribune is a disgrace for its lies, its misleading of the public, and its general lazy and irresponsible journalism.
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