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The Anti-Profiling Movement Is Killing Black Pedestrians
American Thinker ^ | 06/18/2018 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 06/18/2018 8:22:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

From time to time, the media tell the truth about issues that have a racial edge, usually by accident.  Such was the case in February of this year, when a local TV news crew visited a largely black St. Louis neighborhood to follow up on a hit-and-run incident.

A speeding car had struck two ten-year-old boys and kept on going.  Local people were outraged.  School principal Stella Erondu told the reporter, "It's just like the wild, wild west.  Anyone can do whatever, drive however they want on these streets."  Other neighbors echoed her comments.

The reporter on the scene had no reason to doubt the neighbors.  While he was there monitoring the intersection in question, an estimated 50 percent of the drivers blew right through the stop sign.

Back at the studio, the news anchor expressed shock at the "blatant disregard for children, the laws, everything in this neighborhood."  He called the situation "unbelievable."  It may have been unbelievable in the anchor's neighborhood, but in urban St. Louis, reckless driving is something of a norm.

If these local news people were willing to shed some light on a serious problem, their betters at the Washington Post prefer to keep their readers in the dark.  A recent Post article that focused on St. Louis led with the perfectly useless headline "Pedestrian deaths soar nationally as SUV use increases."

The reporter made the case that pedestrian deaths nationwide were up 46 percent from 2009 and attributed the increase to there being more SUVs on the road.  This correlation explained close to nothing.  From 2006 to 2013, as SUVs increased in number, pedestrian deaths declined, as did overall auto fatalities, the latter by 25 percent.

Pedestrian fatalities did not start spiking until 2015.  In that year, they increased 9 percent from the prior year.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blacks; pedestrians; profiling; racism
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1 posted on 06/18/2018 8:22:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Police save black lives


2 posted on 06/18/2018 8:28:26 AM PDT by dixie1202
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To: SeekAndFind

"N*gga don' wan no hep, N*gga don't get no hep"

(Note: This was the original line -- NOT "Chump")

3 posted on 06/18/2018 8:28:59 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("We were designed as gardeners, not cubicle rats." (/robroys woman))
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To: SeekAndFind

Satan loves political correctness and any other form of deception.


4 posted on 06/18/2018 8:29:29 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Eeeeeevil SUVs”


5 posted on 06/18/2018 8:29:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s just racist to expect black people to obey laws. Laws are part of white culture.


6 posted on 06/18/2018 8:32:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Yes, I get it - racism is bad and mutual respect and inclusion is good. But value Truth too.)
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To: freedumb2003

SPEAK, Sista June, SPEAK


7 posted on 06/18/2018 8:36:24 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Samantha BeeITCH . . . BOYCOTT CANADIAN Travel & Products BUY AMERICAN)
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To: SeekAndFind

Urban pedestrians play a deadly game of chicken, sauntering carelessly and slowly across streets, forcing the drivers to evade or collide.


8 posted on 06/18/2018 8:40:21 AM PDT by lurk
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To: SeekAndFind

The Stop signs were on the wrong sides of the intersection


9 posted on 06/18/2018 8:41:05 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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Was Laura Bush driving?


10 posted on 06/18/2018 8:41:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind
This article reminds me of an article I read some years ago about a major European investment bank that financed large real estate projects all over the world.

When they were considering a potential project to finance they did a lot of research and market studies to determine if the project was likely to be viable and profitable. That didn't surprise me. What DID surprise me was the type of information they considered as the single most important indicator of a project's viability: motor vehicle accident records for the area where the project would be built.

In a nutshell ... this bank had used these records to identify jurisdictions -- including entire nations, in some cases -- where they wouldn't invest any money in a real estate project. Their rationale was that the frequency and types of fatal motor vehicle accidents were highly accurate indicators of areas where the culture was so dysfunctional that any investment would be a bad idea.

11 posted on 06/18/2018 8:44:37 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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For you....


12 posted on 06/18/2018 8:47:59 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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A real life version of the Frogger game. It seems the same no matter where you are. Too lazy to go to the intersection.


13 posted on 06/18/2018 8:54:34 AM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: SeekAndFind

Compare this idiocy with some Asian cities where pedestrians won’t cross a street against a red light even at 2:00 AM when there isn’t a car to be seen within a mile of the intersection.


14 posted on 06/18/2018 9:09:24 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Feral animals. Just like the section 8 tenants that moved in next-door to me.


15 posted on 06/18/2018 9:12:21 AM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: SeekAndFind

The problems of the non-Whites are largely the result of their self-defeating actions.


16 posted on 06/18/2018 9:39:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: SeekAndFind

Then it’s achieving its purpose.


17 posted on 06/18/2018 9:39:35 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: freedumb2003

Cut me some slack, Jack!


18 posted on 06/18/2018 9:50:04 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("For peace within your gates, speak truth and judge with sound judgment." - Zechariah 8:16)
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To: I want the USA back

Unfortunately it also becomes a problem for whites.


19 posted on 06/18/2018 10:02:01 AM PDT by aquila48
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“A speeding car had struck two ten-year-old boys and kept on going.”

It would be tantamount to committing suicide to stop.


20 posted on 06/18/2018 10:17:45 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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