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A phony like Newt Gingrich has joined the campaign that sells the myth of casual drug offenders filling up prison cells. They make up less than one percent, and the rates are falling. Black activists have decided that strong law enforcement should be done away with, and a hate campaign against cops is taking place as I write. Needless to say, the demonization of police and the criminal justice system will end up very, very badly. In New York City, year in year out, about 90 percent of homicide victims are nonwhite males, as are 90 percent of their killers, yet criminally irresponsible black and Latino leaders are complaining about police officers doing their duty.

Writers and journalists keep recalling the turbulent New York of the 1970s, when budget cuts and crime and unemployment had brutalized the city. I lived through those days, and the place was more fun than now. The cops were mostly white, wore their hair long, and had droopy mustaches. Blacks did the muggings and the arson attacks were daily. The place was gritty and magnificent. It was like living in a war zone. One had allies, the cops and others like oneself, law-abiding souls. No one, but no one took the side of the bad guys. Al Sharpton was in the future, as were all the “ community activists” who have sprung forth. Media types did not dare take the side of the bad guys. They now climb the ladder of success by doing just that. Bring back the ’70s anytime. Down with Disneyland New York.