Mysteries of Carjacking
3rd January 2022
The sudden spread of carjackings has cast a net of fear over the Twin Cities. The Star Tribune explored it in the page-one story yesterday by David Chanen: “Carjackings sweep through Twin Cities communities.” Subhead: “Police struggle to keep with the latest crime trend.” In the paper’s hard copy, the headline asked: “Who is stealing so many vehicles?” It answered in the subhead: “Carjacking surge is blamed on armed teens who seize, ditch cars for a quick thrill.”
Chanen purports to be interested in the perpetrators’ demographics. The carjackers are identified as teenage boys. So far as I have been able to tell from video and from the few who have been apprehended so far, the perpetrators have been black. Yet Chanen studiously avoids any mention of race. It is taboo in this context — more taboo than public reference to sex in Victorian England. I wrote our friend Howard Root to ask if he noticed the omission of race from Chanen’s story and, if so, what he made of it.
California and New York are examples of crazy people being governed by socialists. Minnesota is an example of normal people being governed by socialists. In neither case is the result very pretty.
Time to leave. Plenty of room here in Texas. I hear Florida is real nice.