All the news that is fit to print, right?
I was alternately amused/annoyed by this NY Times piece on the assault on several members of a Yale a cappella group visiting San Francisco over New Year. Amused because the article, as it painstakingly (sometimes sidesplittingly so) tries to establish some sort of pattern of incompetence in SFPD and tells the sorrowful tale of a bunch of Yalies who can't get 1st Class service from a police department with actual, truly awful crime to fight, recalls a litany of absurdities ranging from "Fajitagate" to Sean Hannity and the "National Anthem Singers" (a great tie-in to the "why do the assaulters -- San Franciscans, presumably -- hate America?" meme). Annoyed because I really don't think the story is interesting or important enough to merit space in the NY Times. But read and enjoy for the absurdities! And read the links if you want to know about some more serious crimes that the police are presumably (hopefully) competently prioritizing...
posted by Anonymous at 1:15 PM
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totally unrelated, but federalists bringing Bob Barr to campus is so hilarious. Mr. Monica Lewinsky zealot. Pro-life hypocrite as revealed by Larry Flynt. Love it.
Comments bo John Yoo to follow. Perfect.
I'm sorry, since when is a hate crime not an important crime to fight?
Granted the other story you link is heinous, but that doesn't make other crimes less deserving of attention.
Either-Or fallacy.
The rise in homicides and the failure of this team both are tragic effects of the incompetence and mismanagement of the SFPD and SF city government generally.
It's no surprise that the Times is covering the Yale fight. Despite being in New Haven, Yale is usually covered in the NY Times as a hometown university (much more so than Columbia and NYU even though they're actually in New York). What's actually surprising is that it took them almost 3 weeks to report on it after it's been just about everywhere else. (I'm not saying it's right, I'm just telling it like it is.)
This whole story seems like largely a pissing match between SF and NY-based elites (which makes for a lot of entertaining reading in Matier & Ross' gossip column in the SF Chronicle).
Also I would point out that this isn't the first time that drunken kids from the San Francisco Catholic Schools implicated in this case have been accused of forming a mob and commiting a hate crime. There was a 2003 assault of Asian American kids in the Sunset neighborhood that later resulted in a hate crime conviction.
The SFPD was accused of dragging its heels in that case too.
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