WINDOW INTO THE DEPRAVED BLACK SUBCULTURE
Heather Mac Donald
Public
safety
The
Social Order
As
for interracial violence generally, blacks disproportionately commit it.
Between 2012 and 2015, there were 631,830 violent
interracial victimizations, excluding homicide, between blacks
and
whites, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Blacks, who make up
13 percent of the U.S. population, committed 85.5 percent of
those victimizations, or 540,360 felonious assaults on
whites,
while whites, 61 percent of the population, committed 14.4 percent, or
91,470 felonious assaults on blacks. Regarding threats to blacks from
the police, a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed
by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police
officer.
Why No 'White Lives Matter'?
Tessa Majors, a young woman ''not of color," was unable to complete her first semester at Barnard University in New York City. She was fatally stabbed in Morningside Park adjacent to the university, collapsing as she left the park -- a place referred to over the years as "Muggingside Park.” At least one "person of color," all of thirteen years old, has been arrested. Although it is unclear whether he participated in the murder, he has implicated others who, like him, have barely reached their teen years.
Three days earlier, a black man and a black woman, members of a virulently anti-Semitic sect, the black Hebrew Israelites, went on a killing spree in a kosher market in Jersey City. Six people died, including a police officer.
Last week’s incidents have one obvious thing in common -- both involved blacks murdering whites. They also have at least one other thing in common -- nobody marched, nobody protested, nobody circulated ‘White Lives Matter” shirts, nobody organized boycotts of black-run businesses, nobody took to the streets screaming racial epithets, nobody threw bricks at black-owned property, and nobody attacked black citizens.
Contrast that non-reaction not only to what occurred in Baltimore four years ago when Freddie Gray died, or five years ago in Ferguson when Michael Brown died, but with what happened for three days in 1991 when a seven-year-old black boy was tragically but unintentionally killed by a vehicle driven by Yosef Lifsh, an Orthodox Jew who was escorting the Grand Rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic community to the cemetery where he visited his deceased wife every Sunday. Lifsh’s car collided with another vehicle; the collision sent Lifsh's car flying onto the sidewalk where it pinned a black youth, Gavin Cato, against a building, causing his death.
Approximately 600 blacks in Crown Heights rioted for three days, injuring just under two hundred people; two residents were shot, a sniper wounded eight police officers, a firehouse was attacked and buildings burned. All of that pales by comparison to the fate of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hasidic scholar from Australia. He was surrounded by a large group of black youths and repeatedly stabbed by Lemrick Nelson, until he collapsed and died.
Why are the reactions to those tragedies so different? Why no rioting and no reprisals when whites are intentionally and brutally murdered by blacks but prolonged rioting and reprisals reflexively occur when a black is tragically but unintentionally killed, another black is shot to death as he was attacking a white police officer and a third black died from injuries sustained in a police van after being arrested for possession of an illegal weapon? (It is important to remember that none of the police officers were convicted of anything and the Justice Department decided against filing federal civil rights charges against any of the officers involved in the Freddie Gray incident and the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown was never charged).
If pressed to answer what they perceive as a racist inquiry, liberals will point to the sordid history of slavery in this country. Doesn’t that beg the question? By 1991, no black who lived through slavery was still alive. In fact, it is unlikely that even a child of a slave was still alive then. Moreover, the Crown Heights riot occurred in a place where slavery was outlawed in 1827 and which was a center of abolitionist activism thereafter. While Jews did comprise roughly one percent of Southern slaveowners, the Jewish commitment to the Civil Rights movement one hundred years later -- which actually happened during the lifetimes of many involved in the Crown Heights rioting -- is far more telling evidence of their present-day racial mindset. If we want to talk prejudice and discrimination, no group has had more personal experience to draw upon than the Jews. While slavery was horrific, it still wasn’t genocide. So why the rioting, why no real consequences for the rioting, and why no Jewish rioting in Jersey City or Columbia University?
There is no better example of the Jewish reaction to their horrendous mistreatment than the recent Hungarian film 1945. After surviving years in a concentration camp, an elderly Orthodox Jew and his son return to their Hungarian village. Local officials had alerted the Germans to their presence in the village during the war in order to steal the Jews’ property once they were deported to the camps. Returning to the village, the father and son, throughout almost the entirety of the film, walk slowly but deliberately back toward their home carrying a very large crate. Their quiet (they never speak) dignity is in sharp contrast to the bedlam their arrival engenders. Everyone fears they have returned to claim the property officials stole from them years earlier. In fact, the guilt, greed and stupidity of the townsfolk results in their burning down their own village, not before, however, they realize that the "large crate” contains playthings and remnants, all that was left of the lives of their family who perished in the camp. They return home not to fight for their property but to bury those remnants of lost lives in the family cemetery.
This is how Jews for the most part react to the tragic and inhumane treatment to which they are too often subjected. It is this grace and grandeur depicted in 1945 that enrages other minorities more than anything else. Jews are not loathed just for failing to “man up.” Rather, it is their failure to react that way, whether in response to the Jersey City murders or the Crown Heights riots, which both demonstrates and symbolizes a moral pinnacle which others despise. They despise it because it brings into sharp contrast their own animalistic response. Simply put, it is the old story of Jacob and Esau with one twist -- if anyone stole the symbolic birthright of the blacks, it certainly wasn’t the Jews.
Black Nationalist Hate Group Praised by Media Shot Up Kosher
Market
https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/12/black-nationalist-hate-group-praised-media-shot-daniel-greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom
Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left
and Islamic terrorism.
Walter Williams tackles the elephant
in the room on crime
Dr. Williams is a well known conservative economist and longtime
John Olin Chair faculty at George Mason University in eastern Virginia, author
of 12 books and syndicated columnist. In the past, he has been
substitute host on the Rush Limbaugh radio program. He is almost
like family to me, and I have benefited from his essays and books over the
years. This past week, I saw and read his essay on disparities in crime rates among races that was picked up
by Military in its October 2019 issue. What got Dr. Williams going
was the article by Matthew DeLisi of Iowa State U and John Paul
Wright of the U of Cincinnati titled "What Criminologists Don't Say and
Why."
Dr. Williams confirms that the writers are right about the liberal
tilt of criminologists — "If criminologists have the guts to even talk
about a race-crime connection, it's behind closed doors and in guarded
language. Any discussion about race and crime ... can mean the end
of one's professional career."
Dr. Williams points out teen black-on-white predatory behavior —
chronicled in detail by many, particularly Colin Flaherty, whose investigative reports appear frequently (more than 100) at American Thinker — cannot be reported,
mentioned, or considered by the media, politicians, criminologists,
commentators, politicians, even law enforcement people without risking being
called racist, the easy epithet used to enforce a ban on talking about the
realities of racial disparities in crime and the increasingly violent nature of
black violence against whites — the knockout game, polar bear hunting, flash
mob violence against people and property.
Referencing the Wright and DeLisi report, Dr. Williams comments on
another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as
other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites, for example, and he points out the silliness of criminologists'
claims that mass incarceration rather than criminality has decimated the black
community. He favorably quotes Wright and DeLisi when they say,
"What they [criminals] did, in reality was to prey on their
neighbors."
Dr. Williams returns to a theme he has explored many times before
in this essay and commentary when he points out that the black family of the
past was two parents and stable, even back to days of slavery, and that the black
community was moral and law-abiding. "The strong character of
black people is responsible for the great progress made from emancipation to
today. ... [T]oday's conduct among black youth wouldn't have been tolerated
yesteryear."
My regret is there aren't enough Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell
types to engage the nutty attitudes of liberal chatterbox experts.
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D.
is an emergency physician, sheriff's medical officer and inactive attorney,
policy and science adviser to the American Council on Science and Health of NYC
and the Heartland Institute of Chicago.
Black Nationalist Hate Group Praised by Media Shot Up Kosher
Market
https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/12/black-nationalist-hate-group-praised-media-shot-daniel-greenfield
Rep. Ilhan Omar and the New York Times’ favorite hate group
targets Jews.
December 12, 2019
Daniel
Greenfield
The New York Times called them "sidewalk
ministers" who practice "tough love." The paper quoted Heidi
Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center who described them as victims of
racism and claimed that they were non-violent.
The Washington Post, in its own puff piece on
the Black Hebrew Israelites, also falsely described them as non-violent,
and concluded that, "Israelite street preaching in parts of D.C.,
Philadelphia and New York is commonplace, a familiar if odd accent to city
life."
The odd accent to city life in Jersey City came amid a hail of
bullets as two members of the racist black nationalist hate group opened fire
in the JC Supermarket. Despite initial
claims by the media and the authorities
that the Jewish market had not been
targeted, David Anderson and Francine
Graham ignored passerby on Martin Luther
King Dr, to get to the store and kill as many
Jewish people as they could.
claims by the media and the authorities
that the Jewish market had not been
targeted, David Anderson and Francine
Graham ignored passerby on Martin Luther
King Dr, to get to the store and kill as many
Jewish people as they could.
When the shooting had ended, Moshe Hersh Deutsch, a yeshiva student who
was known for helping distribute food packages to the needy, Mrs Leah Mindel Ferencz, a mother of 3 who
helped her husband run the grocery store, and Miguel Jason Rodriguez, the
father of an 11-year-old daughter and a parishioner at an Assemblies of God
church, were all dead.
Anderson, who left behind anti-Semitic and anti-police
writings, had also killed Detective Joseph Seals, a father of 5, and
wounded Officer Ray Sanchez and Officer Ferenella Fernandez.
The black nationalist terrorist had hated cops and Jews. He
managed to kill both.
The media whitewash of the racist Black Israelites had come during
the Covington Catholic case when the Washington Post, among other
papers, had falsely blamed the pro-life students for a confrontation that
actually began when members of the nationalist hate group had begun calling
them, “crackers,” “faggots,” and “pedophiles.” An African-American pro-life
student was called the ‘n-word’.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has her own history of racism and
anti-Semitism, falsely claimed that the Covington Catholic
students were “taunting 5 black men.”
The New York Times equivocated that members of
the hate group “use blunt and sometimes offensive language, and gamely engage
in arguments”. The typical “offensive language” and argumentative style of
the Times’ second favorite racist hate group involves
shouting racist and anti-Semitic slurs at people.
David Anderson, the Kosher supermarket shooter, had a whole
YouTube playlist of such ugly incidents. In one video, a Black Israelite
preacher shouts, “Satan is in you” at a Jewish man. “You stole our history. You
are pretending to be us. The messiah, who is a black man, is going to kill
you.”
Gamely indeed.
In another video, a Black Israelite preacher calls a Jewish teen a
member of the “Synagogue of Satan”. “We want our book back and we want our land
back,” the preacher demands. “Go back to Russia.”
You can see why Rep. Ilhan Omar might have felt called to defend
the racist hate group.
“They move you all over the earth, but we know who you are. You
are part of the Zionist deception. You go among the earth to spread Zionism,
which is really Catholicism,” he rants. “Witchcraft and sorcery.”
Such statements may seem deranged, but they’re typical of the
supremacist theology of the hate group.
Previous incidents involving the hate group have been even uglier
with a video that doesn’t appear on Anderson’s playlist showcasing a Black Israelite
preacher shouting, "The Holocaust is a damn joke! Heil Hitler!" A
documentary shows another preacher standing on a prone white man and
declaiming, "We're coming for you, white boys. Negroes are the real Jews.
Get ready for war.”
It’s no wonder that Tom Metzger a KKK leader and the founder of the White Aryan
Resistance, had described them, as "the black
counterparts of us".
And yet, the New York Times concluded its
whitewash of the hate group with a closing quote by Todd Boyd, a professor of
race and culture at UCLA, which claimed that, "To many black people,
Hebrew Israelites are a harmless part of their communities."
No doubt to many white people the KKK are a harmless part of their
communities. Racist hate groups are the bigger problem for people who aren’t a
member of their race.
"More alarming to many African Americans," the UCLA
professor of race had argued, is "seeing a white guy in a ‘Make America
Great Again’ hat."
The dead at the JC Supermarket would have liked to have seen a
MAGA had instead of black coats.
The whitewash of the Black Israelite hate group was the work
of John Eligon, a reporter hired by
the New York Times to report on race, who had previously defended Rep. Ilhan Omar’s
anti-Semitism, and had injected black nationalist
sympathies into
his writing. The Washington Post’s whitewash of the hate
group was the work of Sam Kestenbaum, a contributing editor at the radical
leftist The Forward. The anti-Jewish paper has a long history of
whitewashing and defending anti-Semitism by its political allies.
But the problem is much bigger than just the media’s whitewash of
the Black Israelites.
The FBI’s warning about the threat of “black identity extremism”
was met with a wave of attacks by the media. A New York Times op-ed
warned of "The F.B.I.’s Dangerous Crackdown on ‘Black Identity
Extremists’" The Intercept, a notorious radical hate site
funded by Franco-Persian eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar, joined in. "Why
the FBI's "Black Identity Extremist" Classification Is
Dangerous," Teen Vogue had argued. The Nation had
warned of a "Coming War on 'Black Nationalists'".
Rep. Karen Bass, a militant anti-Israel Democrat, despite
representing a partially Jewish district, attacked former Attorney General Jeff
Sessions, the FBI, and other officials over the BIE category. This was
after the murder of 4 Dallas police officers by Micah X. Johnson and Kori Ali
Muhammad's targeted killing of three white men in Fresno.
“I don’t believe black identity extremists exist, and I believe
the FBI should retract the document and send out a document throughout law
enforcement saying that black identity extremists do not exist,” Bass had
ranted.
This year, under pressure, the FBI jettisoned the BIE term. Just
in time for the Kosher market shooting.
The FBI report helps police officers prepare for coming threats.
By undermining the warnings about black nationalist violence, Rep. Bass,
the New York Times, the Washington Post, and every
media activist and politician who went to bat for black nationalist racists
sabotaged police preparedness.
And they have blood on their hands.
The media is already embracing the familiar narrative about lone
wolves and individual instability. That’s the same story we hear after acts of
violence by members of a movement that it is politically allied with.
Hate groups, whether it’s the KKK or the Black Israelites, or
campus hate groups like the Groypers or SJP, should be exposed with clear and
honest facts about who they are and what they believe.
When political activists and media whitewashes cover up the truth
for partisan reasons, people can die.
A father of five with a badge, a mother of three running a grocery
store, a man working to support his daughter, another man delivering food
packages, did not have to die. If the truth had been told about the Black
Israelites, they might still be alive today. Instead the media lied and they
are gone.
Truly standing up against racism and anti-Semitism means
jettisoning partisan agendas for the truth.
Rep. Karen Bass, the New York Times, The
Intercept, the ACLU, and others colluded to tie the hands of the FBI and
local police because they see black nationalists like Anderson as allies in
their cause.
After the attack, a representative from Americans Against Anti-Semitism, an organization which,
unlike the ADL, actually opposes hate wherever it comes from, took a camera to record local
reactions.
"I blame the Jews. We never had a shooting like this until
they came," one resident bellows. “My children are stuck at school because
of Jew shenanigans.”
"Four of y'all are dead right? That's great. If they was
there, they got shot dead, that's great," a man says.
"Get the Jews out of Jersey City," someone else shouts.
There’s nothing extraordinary about this. It’s the everyday hate
that we can’t talk about. The hate that the media is quick to cover up. If you
want to understand why children are beaten on Brooklyn streets and why a Kosher
supermarket was shot up, it’s because we aren’t allowed to talk about it.
Evil needs silence and complicity. The media and Democrat
politicians are guilty of both.
The Ferencz family, Moishe and Leah, opened a small market on
Martin Luther King Dr. They filled the narrow aisles with bread, juice, candy,
milk, and the household staples you need when time is short.
They worked late hours.
And then, while Moishe was praying next door, the black
nationalist bigots whom the New York Times, the Washington
Post, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and Rep. Karen Bass had defended, killed her husband.
That is the story that the media won’t tell. But it must be told.
Jersey City Kosher Market Shooter Was Anti-Semitic
Black Nationalist
December 11, 2019
Daniel
Greenfield
When a mass shooting fits a political narrative, the information
on it is released quickly. When it doesn't, the authorities stall and the media
spins. There's extensive coverage of what witnesses saw, but no tangible facts
or meaningful information.
In the Jersey City shooting at the JC Kosher supermarket, the
media and authorities initially claimed that the location was random, then
admitted that it had been targeted, but slow-walked the release of information
about the shooters. That told us it was either Islamic terrorists or black
nationalists. A white nationalist mass shooter isn't that likely in Jersey City
and the information would have been quickly put out there.
Then reports mentioned that the male shooter had posted
anti-Semitic and anti-police rants. That narrowed it down to black
nationalists.
The two people who stormed a kosher grocery store in Jersey City
with rifles, killing three people inside and also murdering a veteran
detective, have been identified as David Anderson and Francine Graham, four law
enforcement sources familiar with the case tell News 4.
The footage shows the shooters deliberately bypass other people on
the busy street, aiming directly for people inside the kosher deli. Information
continues to develop, and while authorities said Tuesday that it appeared the
standoff began with the deadly shooting of a police officer at a separate site,
Fulop and Shea said Wednesday that the bloodshed began at the market.
"We now know this did not begin with gunfire between police
officers and perpetrators and then move to the store," Shea, the brother of
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, said. "It began with an attack on the
civilians inside the store."
According to three sources, Anderson was a one-time follower of
the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, whose members believe they are descendants
of the ancient Israelites and may adhere to both Christian and Judaic beliefs,
and his social media pages include anti-police and anti-Jewish writings.
Investigators are looking to see if it was Anderson himself who posted that
material.
It's nice to belatedly hear the truth.
There are a number of black hebrew groups. Some claim to be Jews.
Some claim that Jews aren't really Jews. The Black Hebrew Israelites are
notorious not only for claiming that Jews aren't real Jews, but for being
extremely racist and engaging in confrontational street preaching.
And by "confrontational", we're talking shouting slurs
and obscenities at people passing by.
This was the hate group at the center of the Covington Catholic
incident. And was defended by the media at the time.
After the white nationalist shootings in Pennsylvania and
California, there was a conversation about the rising violence of Neo-Nazis and
its roots in the hatred of Jews. Are we going to have that conversation about
black nationalism and anti-Semitism? Don't count on it.
WINDOW INTO THE DEPRAVED BLACK SUBCULTURE
Heather Mac Donald
Public
safety
The
Social Order
As
for interracial violence generally, blacks disproportionately commit it.
Between 2012 and 2015, there were 631,830 violent
interracial victimizations, excluding homicide, between blacks
and
whites, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Blacks, who make up
13 percent of the U.S. population, committed 85.5 percent of
those victimizations, or 540,360 felonious assaults on
whites,
while whites, 61 percent of the population, committed 14.4 percent, or
91,470 felonious assaults on blacks. Regarding threats to blacks from
the police, a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed
by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police
officer.
Anti-cop
activist Shaun King says that his involvement in the campaign around the
Jazmine Barnes murder was not driven by reports that a white man had killed the
seven-year-old girl, who was gunned down in Houston on December 30. According
to Barnes’s mother and 15-year-old sister, the white driver of a pickup truck
had pulled up next to the family’s car before opening fire. The accusation set
off a frenzy of hate-crime allegations and blanket coverage by the New York
Times. King offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who located the suspect.
As
it turned out, Jazmine Barnes was killed by two black men, who opened fire on
her mother’s car because they thought that they were targeting enemies of their
gang. King passed along a tip about the real killers to the Houston police, and
now says that he merely “internalized the pain of the family and tried to
search as if it were my own child who was killed.” Race, in other words, had
nothing to do with his activism.
It’s
worth remembering, though, the many other black children who have been victims
of drive-by shootings without leading King to launch a national crusade.
A
sampling: in March 2015, a six-year-old boy was killed in a drive-by shooting
on West Florissant Avenue in St. Louis, as Black Lives Matter protesters were
converging on the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department to demand the
resignation of the entire department. In August 2015, a nine-year-old girl was
killed by a bullet from a drive-by shooting in Ferguson while doing her
homework in her bedroom, blocks from the Black Lives Matter rioting
thoroughfare. Five children were shot in Cleveland over the 2015 Fourth of July
weekend. A seven-year-old boy was killed in Chicago that same weekend by a
bullet intended for his father. In Cincinnati, in July 2015, a four-year-old
girl was shot in the head and a six-year-old girl was left paralyzed and
partially blind from two separate drive-by shootings. In Cleveland, three
children five and younger were killed in September 2015, leading the black
police chief to break down in tears and ask why the community only protests
shootings of blacks when the perpetrator is a cop. In November 2015, a
nine-year-old in Chicago was lured into an alley and killed by his father’s
gang enemies; the father refused to cooperate with the police. All told, ten children
under the age of ten were killed in Baltimore in 2015; twelve victims were
between the age of ten and seventeen.
In
2016, a three-year-old girl in Baltimore was partially paralyzed by a drive-by
shooting. In Chicago in 2016, two dozen children under the age of 12 were shot
in drive-bys, including a three-year-old boy mowed down on Father’s Day 2016
who is now paralyzed for life and a ten-year-old boy shot in August; his
pancreas, intestines, kidney, and spleen were torn apart. A Jacksonville 22-month-old
was shot to death by a passing car last June. In September, three men killed
three-year-old Azalya Anderson in a drive-by in Sacramento, and a week before
Christmas in Bridgeport, a 12-year-old boy was shot and killed on his way home
from the candy store in a drive-by shooting.
Why
did King let these shootings of black children go by without responding as he
did to Jazmine Barnes’s murder? Could it be because the perpetrators were
black? You could end all white shootings of black children tomorrow and it
would have zero effect on the death rate of black children by homicide, because
such white-on-black shootings are extremely rare. Moral abominations, like the
2015 Charleston church massacre by white supremacist Dylann Roof, are
aberrations that belong to the outermost lunatic fringe of American society.
The country’s revulsion at the Charleston carnage was immediate and universal,
resulting in a movement to banish the Confederate flag, embraced by Roof as a
white supremacist symbol, from official sites.
If
Shaun King and other Black Lives Matter activists really want to save black
children from the trauma of urban violence, they should put their efforts into
rebuilding inner-city culture—above all, by revalorizing a married father as
the best gift a mother can give her child. Fantasies about white violence
against “black bodies” are a distraction from what is actually happening on
American streets.
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith
Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and
the author of The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes
Everyone Less Safe and The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering
Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.
BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE Data,
of crime and policing than this weekend’s demonstrations suggest.
The FBI released its official crime tally for 2016 today, and the data
flies in the face of the rhetoric that professional athletes rehearsed in revived
Black Lives Matter protests over the weekend. Nearly 900 additional
blacks were killed in 2016 compared with 2015, bringing the black
homicide-victim total to 7,881. Those 7,881 “black bodies,” in the parlance of
Ta-Nehisi Coates, are 1,305 more than the number of white victims (which in
this case includes most Hispanics) for the same period, though blacks are
only 13 percent of the nation’s population. The increase in black homicide
deaths last year comes on top of a previous 900-victim increase between 2014
and 2015.
Who is
killing these black victims? Not whites, and not the police, but other blacks.
In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and
dangerous, according to the Washington Post. The Post categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings
as “unarmed.” That classification masks assaults against officers and violent
resistance to arrest. Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police
have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the
police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a
black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer.
Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade,
though they are only 6 percent of the population. That 18.5 ratio undoubtedly
worsened in 2016, in light of the 53 percent increase in gun murders of
officers—committed vastly and disproportionately by black males. Among all
homicide suspects whose race was known, white killers of blacks numbered only
243.
Violent
crime has now risen by a significant amount for two consecutive years. The
total number of violent crimes rose 4.1 percent in 2016, and estimated
homicides rose 8.6 percent. In 2015, violent crime rose by nearly 4 percent and
estimated homicides by nearly 11 percent. The last time violence rose two years
in a row was 2005–06. The reason for the current increase is what I have
called the Ferguson Effect. Cops are backing off of proactive policing in
high-crime minority neighborhoods, and criminals are becoming emboldened.
Having been told incessantly by politicians, the media, and Black Lives Matter
activists that they are bigoted for getting out of their cars and questioning
someone loitering on a known drug corner at 2 AM, many officers are
instead just driving by. Such stops are discretionary; cops don’t have to make
them. And when political elites demonize the police for just such proactive
policing, we shouldn’t be surprised when cops get the message and do less of
it. Seventy-two percent of the nation’s officers say that they and their
colleagues are now less willing to stop and question suspicious persons,
according to a Pew Research poll released in January 2016. The reason is the persistent
anti-cop climate.
Four
studies came out in 2016 alone rebutting the charge that police shootings are racially biased.
If there is a bias in police shootings, it works in favor of blacks and against
whites. That truth has not stopped the ongoing demonization of the
police—including, now, by many of the country’s ignorant professional athletes.
The toll will be felt, as always, in the inner city, by the thousands of
law-abiding people there who desperately want more police protection.
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