THE FERGUSON EFFECT COMES TO SAN FRANCISCO:

“It’s as hard right now to be a cop maybe as it’s ever been,” San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr to the Chronicle Editorial Board Tuesday. At the time, Suhr was resisting calls demanding that he resign. Five local protesters had given up their hunger strike to force his departure to atone for officer-involved shootings of four minority men in the previous two years. Four supervisors had jumped onto that bandwagon, but Suhr enjoyed Mayor Ed Lee’s support. Until Thursday, that is, when a San Francisco cop shot and killed Jessica Williams, 29, an unarmed auto theft suspect in The Bayview. By the end of the day, Suhr had met with the mayor and resigned. It’s as hard right now to be a police chief in a major American city as it has ever been.

New York City can at least look to the Giuliani-Bloomberg interlude between the quarter century of decline culminating in the Dinkins years and now resumed under Bill de Blasio as proof that a city can reform itself and subdue its criminal class. In sharp contrast, San Francisco never had that post-1970s counter-revolution; it’s resembled Taxi Driver-era New York for decades — with even more homeless people — so the Ferguson Effect in San Francisco will likely only make a failed city even more unlivable.

BREAKING: Shot Fired at New Mexico Trump Rally.

Related: Anti-Trump Protesters In New Mexico Jump on Police Cars (Video).

WAPO: The FBI’s Fight With Apple Has “Radicalized” Silicon Valley.

Entirely unrelated: US frozen out of defence deals: Long-time hardware seller bypassed for Russia, China.

THE DEPAUL ADMINISTRATION WAS SHAMEFUL: Milo Mayhem: Activists Storm Stage, Threaten Milo at DePaul Event. “Milo Yiannopoulos’ event at DePaul University had to be cut short Tuesday night after protesters stormed the stage, blew whistles, grabbed the microphone out of the interviewer’s hand, and threatened to punch Yiannopoulos in the face. Yiannopoulos attempted to continue the event, but protesters refused to leave the stage and the group of security guards (which DePaul forced both the organisers and Breitbart to pay for) refused to intervene.”

More Trump voters are created every time this happens. Lots of video at the link. But note this: “After an extended period of time, the crowd started to chant ‘Do your job’ at security, who remained at the back of the venue for the entire event. When security refused to intervene, Yiannopoulos posed for pictures with fans in the audience, and ordered the crowd to follow him to the college president’s office.”

CLAIM: Peter Thiel Secretly Funded Hulk Hogan’s Lawsuits Against Gawker. I love this story, but the sourcing isn’t exactly airtight.

TEN YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT:

MORE ON THE MEDIA’S KATRINA DEBACLE:

Where to begin? As I’ve written before, virtually all of the gripping stories from Katrina were untrue. All of those stories about, in Paula Zahn’s words, “bands of rapists, going block to block”? Not true. The tales of snipers firing on medevac helicopters? Bogus. The yarns, peddled on Oprah by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and the New Orleans police chief, that “little babies” were getting raped in the Superdome and that the bodies of the murdered were piling up? Completely false. The stories about poor blacks dying in comparatively huge numbers because American society “left them behind”? Nah-ah. While most outlets limited themselves to taking Nagin’s estimate of 10,000 dead at face value, Editor and Publisher—the watchdog of the media—ran the headline, “Mortuary Director Tells Local Paper 40,000 Could Be Lost in Hurricane.”

In all of Louisiana, not just New Orleans, the total dead from Katrina was roughly 1,500. Blacks did not die disproportionately, nor did the poor. The only group truly singled out in terms of mortality was the elderly. According to a Knight-Ridder study, while only 15 percent of the population of New Orleans was over the age of 60, some 74 percent of the dead were 60 or older, and almost half were older than 75. Blacks were, if anything, slightly underrepresented among the dead given their share of the population.

This barely captures how badly the press bungled Katrina coverage. . . . And yet, an ubiquitous media chorus claims simultaneously that Katrina was Bush’s worst hour and the press’s best.

Read the whole thing. But what they learned was that if they all shouted lies in unison they could drive Bush down in the polls.

ANN ALTHOUSE: It seems to me Donald Trump handled Ali G perfectly.

IT’S NOT LIKE HE’S CAPTAIN FRANCE: Captain America Is Straight and Libertarian—Deal with It.

VIRGINIA POSTREL: Trump Would Crush the Winners of the U.S. Economy.

THE WEEK: Why “Crooked Hillary” Is Likely To Stick.

HILLARY’S SLOGAN “WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER” “could be symbolized by a bundle of sticks.”

Related: “Sexual transgressions” makes what Bill Clinton did sound merely naughty and therefore forgivable. Submerged is the lying under oath, the sexual harassment in the workplace, and — as Donald Trump says (in what is definitely not relitigation) — the allegation of rape.

UPDATE: Heh:

WHAT COMES AFTER BREXIT? Jim Bennett proposes a Canada-Australia-New Zealand-UK “Commonwealth Union.”

Conrad Black has related thoughts.

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MEH. I’D BE HAPPY IF THEY JUST BROUGHT GEORGE LAZENBY BACK: The Next James Bond Might Be a Jane.

NO REASON TO BE: My Uncle Leveled Hiroshima. We’re Not Sorry.

Paglia’s father was among many thousands spared because of President Harry Truman’s decision to launch a nuclear strike against Imperial Japan. His order to attack Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, was carried out in no small part by my uncle, Maj. Tom Ferebee. He was the bombardier aboard the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb, and that in doing so, ushered in the nuclear age.

As President Obama prepares for his visit to Hiroshima May 27, I recall my uncle’s personal reflections. As the bombardier, peering through his Norden bombsight, he was the last man to see Hiroshima in any detail before it was leveled, making his perspectives on the event somewhat unique.

He always said he never tossed and turned at night over his role in the mission. While he is distinguished in his hometown of Mocksville, N.C., he was occasionally accused, in later years, of having blood on his hands. He was always calm and confident in answering critics. He never second-guessed Truman’s decision and took pride in knowing the critical job he performed in bringing the war to an end.

Four days after releasing that single bomb over Hiroshima, Japan offered its surrender. As a young military man, Maj. Ferebee knew what that meant. For months prior to the bombing, the War Department had been preparing for an invasion of Japan, the planning for which included casualty figures.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff estimated as many as 134,556 dead and missing Americans. A study for the office of War Secretary Henry Stimson put the figure at 400,000 to 800,000 dead GIs, with Japanese fatalities reckoned between five and 10 million military personnel and civilians. In addition to combat casualties, the more than 27,000 American POWs held by Japan were subject to immediate execution should the United States invade.

These facts are indisputably true, but the fact is that hand-wringing over Hiroshima is just so much virtue-signaling by people who probably never said a bad word about Stalin or Mao’s mass murders.

I REMEMBER WHEN LOYALTY OATHS WERE CONSIDERED BAD: Diversity As A Tenure Requirement: Pomona changes criteria for evaluating teaching to include whether professors are “attentive to diversity in the student body.”

NOW OUT FROM SARAH HOYT: Through Fire (Darkship Book Four).

JOHN HINDERAKER ON THE STATE OF AMERICA: We Are A Fish Rotting From The Head.

DISPATCHES FROM THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE: Ten Things You Can Really Screw Up When Applying for College.

BAY AREA SPORTSCASTER GARY RADNICH BLOWS UP AT ANCHORWOMAN OVER SPACE JAM (Video):

KRON-TV San Francisco sports anchor Gary Radnich has gone viral for his reporting, but not how he’d have liked.

Rather than breaking news or moving features, Radnich has found fame for his on-air outburst after colleague Catherine Heenan stole a “sports story” from him — the casting of LeBron James in the upcoming “Space Jam” sequel.

“We should tell you LeBron James is going to star in ‘Space Jam,’” Radnich said as he wrapped up coverage of the Giants’ game.

“We actually — oh, are you mad ’cause I already read that?” Heenan responded.

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

But the lecture didn’t end there, as Radnich continued to berate Heenan for reporting the casting instead of leaving the “sports news” to him.

As Ace writes, Radnich suffered a real “Anchorman Moment: Champ Kind Blows His Stack After Veronica Corningstone Reads His News.”

https://youtu.be/9vQPXG1KUEQ

To the best of my knowledge Radnich is — was? — little known outside of the Bay Area, but news of his spat made it all the way to Australia today. Not to mention Hot Air, where Allahpundit posits one of his trademarked exit questions: “What does this affiliate do when one of the Bay Area teams wins a championship? Do they let Radnich announce it at the top of the broadcast or do they let — gulp — her break the news?

WE SHOULD STICK WITH SOMETHING SAFE AND RELIABLE, LIKE NUCLEAR POWER: A Huge Solar Plant Caught on Fire, and That’s the Least of Its Problems.

MEET THE FIELD GENERALS IN THE LEFT’S WAR ON BATHROOMS: These Are the Radical DOJ Lawyers Suing North Carolina Over Transgender Bathroom Use, J. Christian Adams writes.

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MEANWHILE, IN AMERICA, OBAMA-SUPPORTING TECH COMPANIES HAVE GOTTEN SURPRISINGLY LITTLE ANTITRUST SCRUTINY FROM THE OBAMA JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: Why Google’s monopoly abuse case in Europe will run and run.

‘BEAUTIFUL AND BRAVE’: YALE HOLDS ITS FIRST ROTC COMMISSIONING CEREMONY SINCE THE ’70s:

At a recent commencement address, National Security Adviser Susan Rice echoed Sen. Bob Graham’s concern that America’s national security workforce is too “white, male, and Yale” and argued that a lack of diversity is making the nation less safe.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter, himself a white, male Yale graduate, visited his alma mater Monday to preside over the school’s first ROTC commissioning ceremony in four decades, and in the process gave Americans every reason to believe their nation is all the more safe because of it.

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“I hear the uniforms are a big hit on campus.” Ashton Carter to Yale’s first class of ROTC graduates in forty years.

But of course — in a university where being “transgressive” is a prized attribute, how much more transgressive can you get than wearing a uniform on campus?