Be Careful, You’re Starting To Make Sense

Note to readers–this is a feature that will run frequently.

The expression comes from the author’s brief stint as owner of the Tri City Americans, of the Western Hockey League. At board of governor meetings when somebody would make a logical suggestion, the joking reply was: “Be careful, you are starting to make sense.”

Today, a gem from the New York Times editorial page. (Is anybody surprised?)

The two paragraphs below are the first two in the editorial. You figure it out, but it seems to me they are saying, if it works to cut crime, then there must be something wrong with it. Perhaps this will remind you of certain members of the Sunnyside City Council?

The New York City Police Department says its “stop and frisk” program–under which officers investigating crimes, or working to prevent crimes, briefly detain or pat down people on the streets-has played a pivotal role in driving down crime to record lows.

But civil rights groups and some criminologists are understandably troubled by new statistics showing that police officers stopped a record 575,000 people last year–nearly 90 per cent black or Hispanic–and that the number of stops is growing as crime falls. Instead of dismissing such complaints, the police department should re-evaluate the program.