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...teaches criminal justice at Temple University in Philadelphia, says slow progress can be dangerous. "Riots tend to occur when expectations are rising," he says, "when positive change is starting to happen, but not fast enough." Once the glass is swept up and the KILL COPS graffiti painted over, Cincinnati will have to try rapid progress for a change. --With reporting by Sarah Sturmon Dale/Milwaukee and Andrea Tortora/Cincinnati
...episodes of police violence that touch off conflagrations like the one in Cincinnati all seem so depressingly similar? Let's take a little quiz: a black a) homeless woman b) street vendor or c) teenager, armed with a) a screwdriver b) a wallet or c) nothing at all, is killed by cops under circumstances that are a) questionable b) grounds for murder charges or c) the cause of a riot...
...after she allegedly lunged at them with a screwdriver. Amadou Diallo was the African street vendor at whom four of New York's finest fired 41 shots after they supposedly mistook his wallet for a gun. (The officers were acquitted of murder.) And Timothy Thomas was the unarmed Cincinnati youth whose fatal shooting by police ignited last week's uprising...
...motorists far more frequently than they pull over white motorists in the mistaken belief that blacks are more likely to be carrying illegal drugs. That's not just racist, it's lousy police work. And it's fuel for the black rage that makes outbursts like the one in Cincinnati inevitable...
...Washington Post's estimable David Broder is getting after George W. Bush for ignoring his presidential duties as an empathizer. Not enough emotion, Broder suggests, is emanating from the Bush White House. In the midst of the (fairly short) Hainan Island standoff, the midwestern floods, the riots in Cincinnati, the rising gasoline prices, writes Broder, President Bush has been uncommunicative, "stoic to the point of reticence...