When in the mid-1970s radicalized Puerto Ricans graduated from small-scale terror attacks to the deadliest bombings of the radical era, NYPD couldn’t investigate their crimes. A few years previously, civil rights groups had forced NYPD to destroy all the information it had gathered about these terrorists. Police officers weren’t allowed to track their movements, infiltrate their terror cells, or attend their meetings undercover. When Puerto Ricans switched from limited-range to large-scale bombings, NYPD was caught flat-footed, not because it didn’t want to do the work but because it wasn’t allowed to do it.
Does this remind you of anything?
Everybody who immigrates into the US should have to read Days of Rage and get tested on the contents. The reading and the test should also be a pre-condition on receiving a student visa into the country.
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Oh, testing never works in these cases.
Some profiling, however, would yield better results. At least statistically.
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“Everybody who immigrates into the US should have to read Days of Rage and get tested on the contents. The reading and the test should also be a pre-condition on receiving a student visa into the country.”
Now I’m going to feel insanely smug about my book recommendations until the end of time.
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The funny thing is that I thought I knew about this. But what I knew was a sliver, a tiny drop in a raging ocean.
Thank you, I’m truly grateful for the recommendation.
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