Mugged (50 page)

5
.   Sowell,
The Vision of the Anointed
at 26.

6
.   Editorial: “A Man Who Can Be Mayor,”
New York Times
, May 13, 1965.

7
.   Vincent Cannato,
The Ungovernable City
, (Basic Books, 2002) at 64.

8
.   Robert D. McFadden, “John V. Lindsay, Mayor and Maverick, Dies at 79,”
New York Times
, December 21, 2000.

9
.   Fred Siegel,
The Future Once Happened Here
(Encounter Books, 1997) at 4.

10
. Jan M. Chaikan and Marcia R. Chaikan, “Varieties of Criminal Behavior,” RAND Corporation, August 1982, at 215 (cited in Attorney General William Barr, “Remarks to the Young Republican National Federation,” J. W. Marriott, Federal News Service, March 20, 1992).

11
. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, “Protecting America: The Effectiveness of the Federal Armed Career Criminal Statute,” 1992.

12
. Bob Sipchen, “Putting a Price on Violence,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 5, 1994.

13
. John J. DiIulio, “Activist Judges Earn Dunce Caps for Their Prison Caps,” Philly.com, October 31, 1994. Available at http://articles.philly.com/1994-10-31/news/25870404_1_prison-cap-prison-violence-crime-bill.

14
. “Truth in Sentencing in State Prisons,” U.S. Department Of Justice, January 10, 1999.

15
. John J. DiIulio, “Activist Judges Earn Dunce Caps For Their Prison Caps.”

16
. “The Left Starts to Rethink Reagan,” Daily Beast, May 3, 2008. Available at http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/05/03/the-left-starts-to-rethink-reagan.html.

17
. Quoted in Michael W. Flamm, “‘Law and Order’ at Large: The New York Civilian Review Board Referendum of 1966 and the Crisis of Liberalism,”
The Historian
, March 22, 2002.

18
. Joseph P. Viteritti, “Police, Politics, and Pluralism in New York City: A Comparative Case Study” (Beverly Hills, 1973), at 12. (Cited in Michael W. Flamm, “‘Law and Order’ at Large.”

19
.
Confidential survey for Roy Wilkins by John F. Kraft Inc., August 1966, “Harlem, 1966–67,” Box 32A, Group IV, NAACP Papers, LOC. (Cited in Michael W. Flamm, “‘Law and Order’ at Large.”

20
. Spiro T. Agnew, Statement at Conference with Civil Rights and Community Leaders, reprinted in
ChickenBones: A Journal
, available at http://www.nathanielturner.com/agnewspeakstoblackbaltimoreleaders1968.htm.

21
. Ibid.

22
. Quoted in “’68: The Fire Last Time,” Part 4 (narrated by Sunni Khalid). See, Baltimore ’68: Riots & Rebirth, available at http://archives.ubalt.edu/bsr/archival-resources/documents/wypr-part-4.pdf.

23
. Marvin Olasky, “History Turned Right Side Up,
World
magazine, February 13, 2010. Available at http://www.worldmag.com/articles/16346.

24
. C. Clark Kissinger,
Discover the Networks: A Guide to the Political Left
, available at http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1386.

25
. “Victim Claims No Robbery Plans: Mother Says No Hard Feeling,” Associated Press, January 11, 1985.

26
. United Press International, “Goetz ‘Looked Like Easy Bait,’”
Chicago Tribune
, November 27, 1985.

27
. Esther Pessin, “Goetz Says His Alleged Victim Was ‘Stupid to Commit Crime,” United Press International, October 31, 1985.

28
. See, e.g., Selwyn Raab, “4 Youths Shot by Goetz Faced Criminal Counts,”
New York Times
, January 10, 1985; George P. Fletcher,
A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial
(University of Chicago Press, 1990) at 107.

29
. Todd S. Purdum, “2 of Those Shot by Goetz Face New Jail Terms,”
New York Times
, April 9, 1986.

30
. William Johnson, “Subway Vigilante Struck a Nerve,” (Canada)
Globe and Mail
, January 18, 1985 (citing
Daily News
poll). According to a
New York Newsday
poll, both groups favored Goetz, but whites were more favorable, supporting Goetz 56 percent to 26 percent, compared to 45 percent to 33 percent, among blacks. Robert D. McFadden, “Poll Indicates Half of New Yorkers See Crime as City’s Chief Problem,”
New York Times,
January 14, 1985 (citing
Newsday
poll).

31
. Phil McCombs, “The Vigilante Mystique: Exploring an American Phenomenon, from Gunslingers to Goetz,”
Washington Post
, January 17, 1985.

32
. Paul Galloway, “Bearing Arms: The Rewards, the Risks,”
Chicago Tribune
, February 24, 1985.

33
. John Leo and Jack E. White, “Behavior: Low Profile for a Legend Bernard Goetz,”
Time
, January 21, 1985.

34
. Carol Vecchione, untitled article, United Press International, February 23, 1985.

35
. Galloway, “Bearing Arms.”

36
. David E. Sanger, “The Little-Known World of the Vigilante,”
New York Times
, December 30, 1984.

37
. Tom Morganthau with Lynda Wright, “A Goetz Backlash,”
Newsweek
, March 11, 1985.

38
. Richard Cohen, “What Was Goetz Thinking?”
Washington Post
, March 2, 1985.

39
. Untitled article,
Chicago Tribune
, Associated Press, January 2, 1985.

40
. Margot Hornblower, “Wounded Youth Denies Intent to Rob New York City ‘Subway Vigilante,’”
Washington Post,
January 11, 1985.

41
.
Esther B. Fein, “For Goetz Victim’s Mother, Worry and Self-Doubt,”
New York Times
January 12, 1985.

42
. Ibid.

43
. George P. Fletcher,
A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law
at 182–83.

44
. Kirk Johnson, “Youth Shot in Subway Says He Didn’t Approach Goetz,”
New York Times
, May 20, 1987.

45
. Fletcher,
A Crime of Self-Defense
at 182–83.

46
. Joseph R. Tybor, “Message of Fear: Goetz’s Acquittal Reflects American Beliefs,”
Chicago Tribune
, June 21, 1987.

47
. Ibid.

48
. David E. Pitt, “Blacks See Goetz Verdict as Blow to Race Relations,”
New York Times
, June 18, 1987.

49
. Ibid.

50
. McWhorter, “Why Blacks Don’t Need Leaders.”

51
.
Grutter v. 
Bollinger
539 U.S. 306 (2003), et al. (Thomas J., concurring and dissenting;) (quoting “What the Black Man Wants: An Address Delivered in Boston, Massachusetts, on 26 January 1865,” reprinted in 4 The Frederick Douglass Papers 59, 68, (J. Blassingame and& J. McKivigan, eds., 1991).

52
. Bill Keller, “Mr. Diversity,”
New York Times
, June 28, 2003.

CHAPTER 7: LIBERAL-BLACK RELATIONS: THEIR LANDLORD
AND
THEIR FRIEND

1
. See, e.g., Michael Barone, “The New Continental Divides,”
U.S. News & World Report
, November 6, 1994 (noting that the Irish have done well in hierarchies, but “haven’t fared as well in free-market commerce”).

2
.   Jonathan Eig, 
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season
(Simon & Schuster, 2008) at 7.

3
.   Marvin Olasky, “History Turned Right Side Up,
World
magazine, February 13, 2010. Available at http://www.worldmag.com/articles/16346.

4
.   Michael Moore,
Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
(Regan Books, 2004) at 79.

5
.   Chris Dixon, “Vows: Sarah Staveley-O’Carroll and Michael Matthews,”
New York Times
, April 1, 2010.

6
.   Mary Vespa, “Tom Wicker & Pam Hill: A Mixed-Media Marriage Changes Their Luck,”
People
magazine, April 28, 1975.

7
.   Patricia McCormack, “Kids Lean to Reagan, Anderson, Informal Polls Show,” United Press International, November 1, 1980. Reagan also won nationally in high schools and junior high school polls. Meanwhile, the
Washington Post
called the elderly “a bedrock of Carter’s southern base.” See Edward Walsh, “Carter Says Reagan Can’t Be Trusted With Presidency,”
Washington Post
, October 11, 1980.

CHAPTER 8: RODNEY KING—THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE EDIT IN HISTORY

1
. KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, “Rodney King: Videotaped Beating.” Peabody Awards, Winners, 1990s. Available at http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/winners_ 1990s.php.

2
.   Lou Cannon,
Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD
(Basic Books, 1999) at 39.

3
.   Cannon,
Official Negligence
at 25.

4
.   Trial Testimony of Rodney King, available at Los Angeles Police Officers’ (Rodney King Beating) Trials, University of Missouri School of Law. Available at http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lapd/kingownwords.html.

5
.   Cannon at 43.

6
.   Unable to use intermediate force, female law enforcement officers are much more likely to shoot civilians than their male counterparts. John R. Lott Jr., “Does a Helping Hand Put Others at Risk? Affirmative Action, Police Departments and Crime,”
Economic Inquiry
, April 1, 2000.

7
.   Cannon at 38.

8
.   Karl Vick, “Another Acquittal Would Be No Surprise,” (Florida)
St. Petersburg Times
, August 6, 1992.

9
.   Sergeant Stacey Koon,
Presumed Guilty: The Tragedy of the Rodney King Affair
(Regnery Publishing, 1992), quoted in Los Angeles police officers’ (Rodney King beating) trials, University of Missouri School of Law, available at http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lapd/kingownwords.html.)

10
. “Nightline: In the Mind of the Jury,” ABC News, March 8, 1993.

11
. Roger Parloff, “Maybe the Jury Was Right,”
American Lawyer
, June 1992.

12
. Cannon at xix–xx.

13
. Walter Williams, “TV Deception in Rodney King Case,”
Dallas Morning News
, January 2, 1993.

14
.
Official Negligence
at 21 and 23.

15
. Address to the Nation on the Civil Disturbances in Los Angeles, California, Public Papers of the President, May 1, 1992.

16
. “Two Juries, Two Verdicts,” ABC News, April 27, 1993.

17
. John Hurst and Leslie Berger, “Four Officers—Their Paths to Trial,”
Los Angeles Times,
February 3, 1992.

18
. “Nightline: In the Mind of the Jury,” ABC News, March 8, 1993.

19
. News Conference with the Joint Center For Political and Economic Studies and Home Box Office re: Comprehensive Assessment of Views of African American Electorate in the 1992 Presidential Year, Federal News Service, July 8, 1992.

20
. “The Times Poll; ‘Moral Leadership’ Needed in Inner Cities, Voters Say,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 23, 1992.

21
. Three officers were acquitted, and the jury failed to reach a verdict on the fourth officer.

22
. David Whitman, “The Untold Story of the LA Riot,”
U.S. News & World Report,
May 31, 1993.

23
. Ibid.

24
. Edward J. Boyer, “In Bradley’s Wake, a Heated Rivalry Boils,”
Los Angeles Times,
July 18, 1993.

25
.
Eugene Yi, “LA Riots, in Our Own Words,” KoreAm April 29, 2012. Available at http://iamkoream.com/april-issue-la-riots-in-our-own-words/.

26
. Douglas P. Shuit, “Waters Focuses Her Rage at System,”
Los Angeles Times,
May 10, 1992.

27
. See, e.g., Robert Rector, “The Size and Scope Of Means-Tested Welfare Spending,” The Heritage Foundation, August 1, 2001. Available at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Testimony/The-Size-and-Scope-Of-Means-Tested-Welfare-Spending; Chris Edwards, “Food Subsidies, Cato Institute: Downsizing the Federal Government,” July 2009. Available at http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/agriculture/food-subsidies.

28
. David Whitman, “The Untold Story of the LA Riot,”
U.S. News & World Report,
May 31, 1993.

29
. Brandi Hitt, “From the KTLA Vaults: The Rodney King Beating, 20 Years Later,” March 3, 2011. Available at http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-rodney-king-20-years,0,6945898.story.

30
. Brandi Hitt, “From the KTLA Vaults: The Rodney King Beating, 20 Years Later.”

31
. Cannon at 22.

32
. Richard Horgan, “Idiot Box: Lingerie Models Warm Up KTLA Morning Forecast,” February 14, 2012. Available at http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/ ktla-morning-news-mark-kriski-henry-dicarlo-fredericks-hollywood-valentines-day_b53211.

33
. POW Pledge from ABC, May 1993, http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/1993/05b.html.

34
. Jim Newton and John L. Mitchell, “Symbolism Alters Image of Suspects in Denny Beating,
Los Angeles Times,
December 27, 1992.

35
. John McWhorter,
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
(Free Press, 2000) at 69.

36
. William Hamilton, “King, Denny Cases: To Many, a Contrast in Black and White,”
The Washington Post,
February 25, 1993.

37
. Cannon at 609.

38
. Jay Nordlinger, “Shrill Waters; Move Aside, James Carville: Big Bad Max Is the Loudest, Toughest, Meanest Clinton-Defender of Them All,”
National Review,
January 25, 1999.

39
. Editorial: “The Crown Heights Acquittal,”
The New York Times
, October 31, 1992.

40
. See, e.g., John R. Lott Jr., “Analysis: Reckless Mortgages Brought Financial Market to Its Knees,” September 18, 2008, available at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,424945,00.html#ixzz1ulnTqidV.