We need a leader with a zero tolerance mindset. We need someone who will ignore the political correctness of the wailing race pimps and welfare banshees, and kick some criminal ass in Toronto. We don't need more basketball courts, we don't need more after school programs. We need more reform schools, jails and deportations.

Two teenagers are dead and a third is clinging to life after an apparent early-morning police pursuit that ended with a horrific crash in Rexdale yesterday.

A fifteen year old in a stolen Acura, chased by the cops, panics. He loses control, and all hell breaks loose. I wouldn't have thought much of this story at all (sorry, but anything that happens up in that ghetto goes in one ear and out the other now) except that we drove past the cordoned area yesterday. The four of us (Kathy, Mr. Right and our driver) all suspected that it was a shooting. We weren't that far off, considering the cops that chased the kid were in the area responding to a gun call.

The Acura smashed into two eastbound taxis in the intersection at Finch Ave. W. and then crashed into a light pole.

One of the cabs had two young passengers in the backseat, Bliss said. A 16-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene and her friend, 17, was taken to Sunnybrook hospital in critical condition.

"It's not looking good," Bliss said of the surviving girl.

The lone occupant of the Acura -- which ended up wrapped around a lamp post -- died in hospital about five hours after the collision.

What a waste. Now the cops are under investigation over whether they should have let the kid go. Are you kidding? Yes, I realize that there are times when officers must make the call as to let a perp go or not, but this chase literally took moments. The SIU will find them without fault, but the press and the race pimps are already screaming for blood.

However, the deaths had some area residents questioning whether police should chase motorists who refuse to stop.

A 54-year-old woman speculated the Acura driver probably "panicked" when he saw the cops on his heels.

"They should have just let him go. Tomorrow is another day," said the woman, who has lived in the neighbourhood for several years. "Now look what's happened, such innocent loss of life."

Why don't we let all criminals go? Jane/Finch would be such a nice quiet neighborhood if it weren't for all those meddling cops trying to keep the peace. Yes, let's let car thieves, rapists, murderers and drug dealers go.

I have a better idea: Let's just fence off Rexdale and go back in 20 years when the place has killed itself off. Then we can build condos and let the cops back in.

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In other news, the wailing and grieving over Jordan Manners, the 15 year old grade 9 student who was shot in his Toronto school a little over a week ago, takes an interesting twist. Seems the young darling wasn't such a saint after all.

Hours before Manners was shot he had told Miles the world would be better off without police. One week before that, the same teacher recalled Manners flashing a wad of bills in class – one of many that earned him the nickname "Stackz."

And in early May, Miles had called Loreen Small for the first time to warn her that Jordan was heading down the wrong path – professing admiration for violent behaviour at Jefferys and disrupting classes.

Manners had already seen guns pointed at him "a couple of times" and could distinguish the different types, his teacher said.

Uh huh. I'm shocked, I tell ya. Shocked.

It is, of course, the school system's fault. It has nothing to do with Toronto's black gangs, lack of fathers in the black community, lawlessness in the aforementioned neighborhood or anything like that. It's Whitey's fault. Always. Cry me a long black river.

But Miles thought the 15-year-old could make it through high school. The head of Jefferys' special education department, he had worked intimately with Jordan from the day the Grade 9 student arrived – with a warning attached from Brookview Middle School that he was defiant and out of control. Miles stressed this week, though, that Manners didn't deserve this, that the school had failed him.

Miles said he has been too sickened by Jordan's death to return to teaching at Jefferys.

"The reason I'm taking this so hard is because it was preventable," he said from his home. "I can't walk into that school right now. I can't think of a lesson plan. A lesson in what? How to bring people back from the dead?"

Um, I dunno, how about a lesson in how gangs are no way to live, that easy money comes with a much higher price than taxes, and how maybe it isn't all Whitey's fault and that you should take some goddam responsibility for how your life turns out (or doesn't, in this case)? Maybe that would be a good lesson to teach these kids, because they obviously aren't learning it at home or in the 'hood.

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Instead of a Giuliani, Toronto has a mayor who believes in blaming the gun (perhaps he'll also blame the Acura) instead of the hand holding it and pulling the trigger. It can all be solved with more social programs, which we'd have if that miser Stephen Harper would just give us one penny back from the GST. The word misguided does not even begin to describe that logic.

Labels: David Miller, Giuliani, Police, Rexdale, Toronto, Youth Crime