Dante’s real danger isn’t the NYPD #ResignDeBlasio

Mayor Bill de Blasio has spoken of conversations with his son, Dante, about the “dangers he may face” from the police.

Like so many other assertions connected with the cases of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, it is a fiction — and a dangerous one. Truth is, a young man of Dante de Blasio’s age faces far more danger from violent men his age than he does from cops.

Zach Emanuel found this out the hard way. Zach’s father is Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago. Like Dante, he’s 17.

Last Friday, he was assaulted and mugged just a block from his home on Chicago’s north side — by two other teenage men. They roughed him up and stole his phone. Fortunately, he wasn’t seriously harmed.

Zach isn’t African-American. But the reality is the dangers we speak of are even more pronounced for a young black man.

The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Riley notes that homicide is the leading cause of death among young black men. FBI numbers suggest that if you are Dante de Blasio, you are 10 times more likely than Zach Emanuel to be murdered.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/23/dantes-real-dangers/