The latest FBI crime statistics show that Dallas is the most crime-infested big city in the nation. Want to know how bad it is? Read

this. We have an incompetent police chief who keeps his job in large part

because he’s the city’s first African-American top cop, and any criticism of

him is instantly attacked as racist by what passes for black leadership in

this city (this, despite the fact that 42 percent of the homicides in Dallas

so far this year have been blacks). We have a city manager form of municipal

government, so the mayor is relatively week. The city manager, who could

fire the chief in a trice, won’t, and because the city manager is Hispanic,

an attack on him is … well, you get the picture (another 42 percent of the

homicides this year have been Hispanic). The white establishment doesn’t

want to rock the boat, and besides, most of them live in enclaves that

aren’t really hit by crime.

To give you an idea of how truly lousy Chief Terrell Bolton is, check out

this quote from his press conference yesterday: “We’re not the linchpin in crime fighting, because that’s a collective effort. I think you’re whistling ‘Dixie’ if you think the police chief can have some impact on a crook or a hoodlum that goes into a convenience store and pulls a gun on a clerk.” If an NYPD chief had said something like that to the press, Rudy

would have had his resignation on his desk before sundown. But New York is not Dallas. If you want to follow how the Dallas Morning News editorial board is discussing the crime problem here, check out our blog.