I would like to submit my own definition of what it means to be "plagued by crime." Crime has fallen... from "insanely high" to "very high." St. Louis has a long way to go until it's no longer "plagued by crime."

I live next to a four-family that’s been used on and off as an Airbnb. No pool, but on at least two occasions it’s attracted this sort of gathering with rowdy, aggressive people yelling outside and multiple cars blocking the street. It’s insane to witness this behavior and wonder whether it’s about to escalate into a shooting. St. Louis has an oversupply of Airbnbs, and the low prices allow degenerates to rent them for open-invite parties that often spiral out of control. Unfortunately STRs don’t work in a low-trust community where police don’t have the capacity to quickly respond to calls for disorderly conduct.

💥NEW: Jeff Metcalf on Karmelo Anthony supporters: “My opinion is they are of low IQ, no moral compass whatsoever, blinded by race — and generally a nuisance to society.” “Their character shows through … every video I’ve seen is a certain demographic!”

Great work by your #SLMPD officers Saturday night as they proactively addressed a ‘teen takeover’ gathering in the Downtown and Downtown West areas. Officers and undercover detectives worked to disperse crowds, enforce curfew and trespassing laws, and connect juveniles with their parents or guardians. Around a dozen teens were detained and three were taken into custody for resisting arrest. The youngest was 13, who was involved in a fight. Parents were called to pick up their children. Many of the juveniles told officers they had been dropped off by parents or guardians earlier in the evening. In one case, a parent was cited for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Keeping our community safe is a shared responsibility. We encourage parents and guardians to know where their children are and help ensure they make responsible choices. By intervening early, our officers helped connect teens with their parents or guardians while helping ensure a safe and welcoming downtown for everyone. #STL

You won’t see “activists” cussing out politicians at City Hall to spend more on water mains. Not as easy to turn infrastructure programs into a slush fund for favored demographics. But infrastructure has a way of reminding us that it’s the single most important thing a city is responsible for.

Breaking into the same business three times in a row is so outrageously stupid that it should be sufficient to qualify you as mentally disabled Also this guy was charged with murder in 2001 (ended in mistrial) and was caught stealing from a Barnes Jewish construction site last year fox2now.com/news/missouri/ma…

God Bless America

I love it when these little PSAs about antisocial behavior pop up on city subreddits. The people you’re addressing probably aren’t on Reddit and even if they were, they don’t give a shit that you think they’re an asshole. They don’t care about any of your precious social norms. That’s why you need enforcement.

Walking around today, I was thinking about how obvious it is to any observer in America which people you meet are "working class" vs "underclass". Leftists must surely see this as well and struggle to fit it into their basic economic story. Immigrants to America, often with no legal standing or money, but with agency, are working class, and perform decently well. The janitor looks poor, but can take care of himself, and isn't ever a threat to you by virtue of being poor, or whatever handwaving explanation the left invokes to explain violent crime or impulsive theft. Native-borns who are low-agency, addicts, or mentally ill have comparatively more resources available to them, but chronically fail, and are recognizably "underclass" in appearance and behavior. Their erratic nature presents a threat by their lack of self-governance.

Karmelo Anthony discourse marks a new nadir not even fully realized in 2020. Any society that would indulge that as self-defense is one you need to exit immediately.

I had to sit on this for a bit because this sort of rhetoric absolutely infuriates me. It's not just the values, which are abhorrent (as I'll get to later), but the fundamental dishonesty. Each individual sentence of this post is technically true. Karmelo Anthony is a black American teen. He has been sentenced to 35 years for murder. The jury did have no black American jurors. There is a history of racial disparity in this country. It is, of course, true that we need moral clarity, and we need to pay attention to who is considered dangerous. Take each individual statement by itself, & you can't actually contradict it. But there very clearly is a problem of framing here; a very careful, deliberate attempt to leave out the most salient facts of the case, of the history of this country, & of the current character of the problems with race relations to paint a picture that is almost, but not quite, exactly unlike the truth of the matter. Here's some important facts Bernice left out, in such a precise manner that one can really only surmise she did it on purpose: Karmelo Anthony is, factually, a murderer. 35 years is a reasonable, even light sentence for stabbing someone to death unprovoked. The jury was racially diverse, & the jury selection process was entirely fair, with black American potential jurors removing themselves by admitting they could not be objective in the case. The history of racial disparities in sentencing & punishment in this country is driven largely by actual racial differences in criminal behavior. For the last 60 years, black Americans have enjoyed a legal standing above white Americans in many aspects, for the explicitly stated purpose of righting historical wrongs. And finally, of course, moral clarity requires that we condemn the teenager who stabbed a fellow teenager through the heart, & recognize that the armed person willing to kill someone over a petty interpersonal dispute is the more dangerous party.

Over the last eight years or so "anti-racism" has targeted advanced and gifted programs because these programs — at least when admission to them has been meritocratic — are filled with Asians and whites, while blacks and Hispanics are conspicuously and hugely underrepresented.

This case is too unabashed for the usual cover. I think even white liberals are taken aback by how out in the open the hatred is. Those that would usually be front and center to provide cover with impressive sounding rhetorical nonsense are quiet. They’re watching their pet alligator eat a baby and they don’t know what to do.

Looking forward to them selling this to their new Hispanic and Asian voting bloc.

I really think we're seeing the mythology of American blackness collapse. Obviously the whole narrative has been bullshit our whole lives, but the way blacks have defended Karmelo Anthony has been seen by so many people. It's not this esoteric knowledge that black people think they should be able to stab you to death whenever they want with impunity.

This is why people don’t confront teenagers. They will kill you. He was shot on a bus after asking a teen to reduce the volume on his cell phone. I am 99.9% certain that the teenage shooter was not raised with a father in the home. This is textbook fatherless violence.

The Karmelo Anthony ordeal boils down to the simple fact that a non-trivial number of black people believe that they should be governed under a sovereign hood code, and any white person who is in proximity to a black person consents to be governed under hood code. This means that any interpersonal escalation, regardless of the degree of escalation, creates the grounds for the exercise of deadly force to defend one’s “manhood.” They do not think they should be required to submit to the law of the white man. If Karmelo were being tried in a court applying “hood code” he would be completely innocent because he murdered in defense of his manhood. So it is not that they are just pretending they believe Karmelo is actually innocent, they genuinely do believe he is innocent, but under a different set of “laws.” They therefore understand this to be a “modern day lynching” in the sense that Karmelo is being forced to submit to the law of the white man, and therefore his right to murder on behalf of his manhood, which they do sincerely believe is his right, was “violated.”