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...Riot Act. Cincinnati's four-day outburst was the longest of the week, and in many ways the most ominous. Triggered by the arrest of a Negro demonstrator who was protesting a death sentence imposed upon his cousin, Posteal Laskey,* the riots raged not through a Negro slum, but in spacious, residential neighborhoods, where many of the city's 110,000 Negroes were moved when Cincinnati razed its ghetto as part of a $100 million urban-renewal program. After three days, during which more than 100 stores and businesses were firebombed, Mayor Walton Bachrach called in the National...
...near future. Much of the fault lies with lackadaisical Democratic Mayor Ralph Locher, who took over Cleveland's fate when Anthony Celebrezze was called to Washington as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1962, and whose five-year-old administration has monumentally botched an ambitious slum-clearance program that held real hope of improving the lives of the inner-city poor...
Debris & Malaise. In particular, Mayor Locher has done little to implement the ambitious urban renewal project promised for Hough six years ago, and the section remains a garbage-strewn jungle. Exacerbating racial unrest over slum conditions, Locher (rhymes with poker), a Rumanian-born attorney and friend of former Mayor, now Senator, Frank Lausche, recently ordered a harsh crackdown on Negro demonstrators. "Fill every jail, if necessary," he said. The panic implied in that pronouncement was summed up last week by Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Morton Kondracke, who concluded from a five-week nationwide tour of the urban ghettos: "In Cleveland...
...treated the problem of police corruption. The commission equivocated on the "extent of police dishonesty," but detailed corrupt practices like rolling drunks and accepting bribes from prostitutes. They said the instances of unethical conduct were made more numerous because police departments tend to assign their most incompetent officers to slum areas...
...perform a service to a society by pointing out evil and injustice without necessarily offering alternatives. Some of the things the New Left says about modern American life need to be said and evoke certain echoes in anyone who has ever been in white-hot anger over a slum, or a traffic jam, or a piece of blatant official hypocrisy, or a TV commercial, or has felt alone in a big organization...