By Selwyn Duke

One day in middle school, Stanley Simon, then Bronx borough president, paid a visit to my class. Fielding students’ questions, one girl asked him about the burned-out buildings in the Bronx. Playing the typical politician, he emphatically replied, “Where?! Where?!” Having been raised in a somewhat less rarified atmosphere than my schoolmates, I could have told him where. But at age 13 I wasn’t inclined to speak up.

Public officials are almost universally loath to admit that decay or disorder exists within their jurisdictions, especially since their policies are often to blame. Such is the case with European politicians denying the existence of “no-go zones,” Muslim enclaves in which the enforcement of European civil law is spotty at best and where police and emergency personnel may fear to tread. In fact, when presidential candidate Donald Trump recently said that such Islamized areas exist in London, he was castigated by British officials. But now some U.K. police officers have come forward with a startling admission:

Trump is right.

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