Boyz in the hood
I don’t imagine that the story has received much play outside the immediate Bay Area, but the most recent assault on an elderly Asian took place not far from The Crumbling Manse™, at a spot I could stroll to in ten minutes, just up the street from the corner at which, for eighteen years, I caught my morning carpool. A seventy-five year-old man was robbed and knocked to the ground. It didn’t go well for the contents of his cranium. He’s dead, Jim.
A suspect is in custody and has been charged, although as I understand it he has thus far declined to share with authorities the identity of his driver (the pattern of strongarm robberies, car break-ins and parcel thefts in this part of town has tended lately to consist of teams on wheels). Meet Teaunte Bailey, twenty-six year old and a real charming specimen. Here’s the meat of the CV set forth at the link:
I’ve never been able to find the quote, probably because decades after coming across it I misremember the language, but Bernard Shaw once wrote something to the effect that under socialism the root causes of crime would disappear—adding, however, that in any society, however just, there would still be the occasional man, violent and dangerous, impervious to rehabilitation or reform, who could not be suffered to remain at liberty. Nor, he continued, was it sensible to waste other men’s lives guarding these individuals, who should accordingly be put to death in (I thought Shaw used this phrase) “a frank and friendly manner.”
Well, I’m not against capital punishment in principle, but the freakishly arbitrary, capricious, careless and not infrequently cruel fashion in which its is deployed in this society inclines me to oppose it in practice. But can we agree, my auditors, that young Master Bailey, this thoroughly nasty piece of work, is occupying space and consuming oxygen that would be better employed to almost any other conceivable end? It does not appear as though, prior to this week’s outrage (which one assumes will exclude him from the catch-and-release procedures to which he has become accustomed), he has been provided with many procedural disincentives of the sort that might have deterred him from pursuing his vocation. Now he will enter our sordid penal system, from which he will emerge in twenty years even more depraved and still dangerous. It’s not that I want the guy executed, but right at the moment he represents for me that fraction of this city’s residents, its intractably vicious criminal lumpenproletariat, that I have come to loathe since moving here in the seventies, and were I to learn that he had choked to death on jail food this morning I would feel immeasurably cheered, in a spirit of frankness and friendship.
cordially,
A suspect is in custody and has been charged, although as I understand it he has thus far declined to share with authorities the identity of his driver (the pattern of strongarm robberies, car break-ins and parcel thefts in this part of town has tended lately to consist of teams on wheels). Meet Teaunte Bailey, twenty-six year old and a real charming specimen. Here’s the meat of the CV set forth at the link:
He lives in Oakland, Alameda County, California.You know, I’m starting to detect a pattern here.
He is 5’8″ and his registered weight is 175 lbs.
When he was 23 years old, he was incarcerated in the Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad, Monterey County, California.
The Oakland Police Department arrested him for parole violation on November 13, 2018, on July 3, 2019 and on February 11, 2020.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office arrested him for parole violation on July 31, 2019 and on December 9, 2019.
On November 16, 2018, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office arrested him for threats of violence.
On April 4, 2020, the San Francisco Police Department arrested him and his fellow Oakland resident Melissa Taylor. They matched the description of suspects responsible for two robberies that transpired on March 15, 2020 and April 4, 2020. He was charged with robbery, conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor, conspiracy to commit a robbery, possession of burglar’s tools, receiving or concealing stolen property, parole violation, child endangerment and multiple counts of destroying evidence.
On June 29, 2020, the Oakland Police Department arrested him for carjacking, receiving stolen property and resisting, obstructing and delaying peace officer.
On June 30, 2020, he was arrested for robbery by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and the Oakland Police Department.
On December 7, 2020, the Oakland Police Department arrested him for destroying evidence, robbery, child endangerment, parole violation and receiving or concealing stolen property.
Just before 7:00 a.m. on March 9, 2021, he robbed an Asian man, 75, who was having a morning walk in Oakland then shoved him to the ground, leaving the victim with life-threatening injuries. The victim is an Oakland resident and originally from Hong Kong. He was arrested at around 9:00 p.m.
He was 26 years old when he was arrested on March 9, 2021.
On March 10, 2021, the Oakland Police Department arrested him for revocation of probation, murder, kidnapping, vehicle robbery, carjacking, reckless driving, possession of drug paraphernalia and evasion or wanton disregard of safety. He was booked into the Santa Rita Jail.
I’ve never been able to find the quote, probably because decades after coming across it I misremember the language, but Bernard Shaw once wrote something to the effect that under socialism the root causes of crime would disappear—adding, however, that in any society, however just, there would still be the occasional man, violent and dangerous, impervious to rehabilitation or reform, who could not be suffered to remain at liberty. Nor, he continued, was it sensible to waste other men’s lives guarding these individuals, who should accordingly be put to death in (I thought Shaw used this phrase) “a frank and friendly manner.”
Well, I’m not against capital punishment in principle, but the freakishly arbitrary, capricious, careless and not infrequently cruel fashion in which its is deployed in this society inclines me to oppose it in practice. But can we agree, my auditors, that young Master Bailey, this thoroughly nasty piece of work, is occupying space and consuming oxygen that would be better employed to almost any other conceivable end? It does not appear as though, prior to this week’s outrage (which one assumes will exclude him from the catch-and-release procedures to which he has become accustomed), he has been provided with many procedural disincentives of the sort that might have deterred him from pursuing his vocation. Now he will enter our sordid penal system, from which he will emerge in twenty years even more depraved and still dangerous. It’s not that I want the guy executed, but right at the moment he represents for me that fraction of this city’s residents, its intractably vicious criminal lumpenproletariat, that I have come to loathe since moving here in the seventies, and were I to learn that he had choked to death on jail food this morning I would feel immeasurably cheered, in a spirit of frankness and friendship.
cordially,
