"No part of this city has been spared from the recent onslaught of crime in Jackson. Everybody's been affected."
—State Sen. John Horhn, D-Jackson, who was arrested and charged with DUI hours after he held a community-crime forum at the Capitol.
Why it stinks: The hypocrisy of whining about crime and then being arrested for committing a rather serious crime is so thick and heavy that this space is too small to adequately address it and all of its dimensions. Horhn's remarks also underscore the problem as a narrow view of crime. Sure, people commit violent crime in Jackson, and property crimes, too. But people also run red lights, they cheat on their taxes, they sell counterfeit merchandise and they drive drunk—in Jackson and everywhere else. When was the last time a public official in Mississippi staged a public demonstration to demand an end to the rampant rolling of stop signs at Jackson intersections, even though doing so could get someone killed? After all, drunk driving, like other forms of crime, can touch many lives. Do DUIs factor into Horhn's calculus of the recent onslaught of crime in Jackson? Will he rally? We'll be waiting.
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