Mississippi pushes more state policing in mostly Black city

[Fuzzy Bear]

Jackson's Mayor, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, is perhaps the most radical Mayor of a major city.  He is an open Socialist and he doesn't hide his politics.  This certainly puts him at odds with state government in MS.

The State of Mississippi should certainly resolve Jackson's drinking water problem, whatever it costs. That's not the fault of Jackson's government or its citizens.  But Lumumba has put forth the sort of Woke policies on crime that, essentially, call for defunding police and reducing the punishments for crimes (not prosecuting crimes, prosecuting felonies as misdemeanors, making the reduction of mass incarceration the driving force of crime policy regardless of public safety considerations) which his allies have gone along with.  The problem is that Jackson is one of the most dangerous cities in America, and it's not White Supremacy that's caused this; it's the fault entirely of its own citizens, the vast majority of whom are African-American (78.5% black 16.5% white).  

If a Mayor actively pursues less law enforcement in a crisis environment such as the one Jackson, MS is experiencing, how are the ordinary citizens to experience a reasonable level of public safety without outsiders coming to their aid? You can go on and on about "systemic racism", "overpolicing", and such, and while most of that is utter blather, some of it merits discussion, but how is that going to help the average citizen of Jackson, MS be safer this very day?  The State Police coming to a rescue are the only solution to a city where crime is out of control and a Mayor's ideology causes him to refuse to confront the adult misbehavior of its own citizens, some of whom form the base of support this mayor has.

[Fuzzy Bear]

They should leave these black areas alone and let them fend for themselves. It's clear that they don't want the white establishment help, so why give them this help?

The U.S. government shouldn't have helped that much during Katrina either, the Louisiana gov't and the New Orleans city government was to blame as much as the feds and FEMA were.

The state has a duty to intervene even if the people are bound to be stupid.  Drinkable water is a legislated right and public safety is a mandate of the STATE government.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Jackson's Mayor, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, is perhaps the most radical Mayor of a major city.  He is an open Socialist and he doesn't hide his politics.  This certainly puts him at odds with state government in MS.

The State of Mississippi should certainly resolve Jackson's drinking water problem, whatever it costs. That's not the fault of Jackson's government or its citizens.  But Lumumba has put forth the sort of Woke policies on crime that, essentially, call for defunding police and reducing the punishments for crimes (not prosecuting crimes, prosecuting felonies as misdemeanors, making the reduction of mass incarceration the driving force of crime policy regardless of public safety considerations) which his allies have gone along with.  The problem is that Jackson is one of the most dangerous cities in America, and it's not White Supremacy that's caused this; it's the fault entirely of its own citizens, the vast majority of whom are African-American (78.5% black 16.5% white).  

If a Mayor actively pursues less law enforcement in a crisis environment such as the one Jackson, MS is experiencing, how are the ordinary citizens to experience a reasonable level of public safety without outsiders coming to their aid? You can go on and on about "systemic racism", "overpolicing", and such, and while most of that is utter blather, some of it merits discussion, but how is that going to help the average citizen of Jackson, MS be safer this very day?  The State Police coming to a rescue are the only solution to a city where crime is out of control and a Mayor's ideology causes him to refuse to confront the adult misbehavior of its own citizens, some of whom form the base of support this mayor has.

He's elected. Elected by actual Jackson City residents. If his policies are so bad it's up for jacksonians to replace him, not some legislature of which 90 plus percent don't represent the city.

The fact that you use random buzzwords like socialist, radical, and woke to justify stripping Jackson City residents of democracy, in all it's racist tones at Mississippi - and let's be frank Florida - have in Spades just demonstrates how completely and contemptively out to lunch you are.

Lumumba is all of those.  In most cases the terms would, indeed, be buzzwords, but Lumumba, himself, labels himself that way.  He's an awful Mayor, but he's not pretending to be something he's not, and I'll grant that he's inherited big problems and doesn't have a lot to work with to solve them.