Posted on 12/01/2014 7:58:20 PM PST by rlmorel
Bill Whittle states: "Spokesmen for the protestors rioting in Ferguson and St. Louis – and, in fact, a large percentage of the general population -- claim that there is an epidemic of white on black crime, of white cops shooting unarmed black teens. Is that, in fact, happening?"
The answer to this question may be found in Bill Whittle's excellent video found here: VIDEO: Bill Whittle: Ferguson and the Real Race War
I will summarize his video, but I implore you to watch the video. Here are the raw statistics for general Black-on-White violent crime and general White-on-Black violent crime from the National Crime Victimization Survey (the branch of the DOJ responsible for collecting these statistics) here are the raw results for 2010:
Here is the RAW disparity between Black-on-White and White-on-Black general violent crime:
But this raw data is misleading, due to disparity in the sizes of the population. Here are the numbers that show the population totals for black and white populations in 2010:
If you normalize the statistics to take into account the relative sizes of the populations, Here are the numbers that reflect the real magnitude of Black-on-White versus White-on-Black VIOLENT ASSAULT crime:
Furthermore, if you narrow the statistics shown above on violent assault (GENERAL VIOLENT ASSAULT) to a specific type of violent assault (IN THE CASE BELOW, VIOLENT AGGRAVATED ASSAULT) , the statistics that Black-on-White versus White-on-Black VIOLENT ASSAULT crime take on an entirely different magnitude:
When one looks at these statistics, one can only reach the same conclusion that Bill Whittle did in his video:
"Oh, there's an epidemic of racial violence in America, all right."
Bill Whittle further accurately states:
"Critics will say that I am using these statistics to justify the murder of Michael Brown. But I said at the beginning – if Michael Brown were shot in cold blood then the police officer needs to pay the price for murder. This has nothing to do with Michael Brown. This has EVERYTHING to do with the narrative that the President, the Attorney General, and all of these race hustlers are trying to create using Michael Brown.
There is, in fact, a racial war of violence and hatred in America. Open racism is simply not tolerated in white America today, but black racism is the toxic glue that holds the progressive coalition together. Tolerance of – in fact, as we see from the events in Ferguson, open encouragement of black rage at a narrative that not only does not exist but reverses the daily outrages that do exist, is what defines modern progressivism. It is the politics of envy, anger, entitlement, lawlessness, violence and bald-faced lies.
And of all the promises broken by this man, surely none is more heartbreaking than the one promise that got him elected in the first place: the promise of a post-racial future. He and his racist progressive cohorts can never surrender the weapon that has gotten them everything, not the least of which is personal political power and trillions of dollars of redistributed wealth. And this latest outrage in Furguson is yet another example – as if another was needed among the economic wreckage, creeping totalitarianism, and foreign-policy disasters -- that he and his leftist cohorts would rather rule over ruins than disappear into the dustbin of a healthy and healed nation."
(All statistics, graphs and quotes from Bill Whittle's "Ferguson and the Real Race War")
Love the end line (paraphrasing). He (Ø) would rather rule over the ruins, than fade into dust after a racially healed nation.
I am posting this summary of Bill Whittle’s video because I feel that the most dangerous aspect of all this is not simply violence in the black community (both black-on-white and black-on-black) though that is bad enough, but the bigger problem which is the refusal of large portions of the population to openly and truthfully acknowledge the problem.
Just as troubling or even more so, are the entities (from the media, to the Justice Department, to the racial agitators such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson) who KNOW the magnitude of the issue, but for a variety of reasons, actively suppress it.
That indicates a serious sickness in our society, and we need to address it.
This is a very well done video and one the stupid MSM needs to study.
Sounds like his brother, who said it was better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.
He should edit that video. Now that all the evidence has been sifted and a Grand Jury has returned a no true bill the video could stand for lifting out the “is officer Wilson guilty” part...
But whites far outnumber blacks in overall population. To show the real impact, you subject the 5x number to statistical "normalization" to show the real impact a given statistical population has on a given event. This is standard procedure in situations where there is a vast disparity in population sets.
To explain why this is important in this case, the raw numbers alone, without statistical population normalization, simply show that blacks commit 5x the number of violent crimes on whites than whites do on blacks.
Without the knowledge that whites outnumber blacks in total population by a factor of 5.2, one cannot understand the significance of a statistic that states that blacks commit 5x the number of violent crimes on whites than whites commit on blacks. If you didn't normalize the data, you might think that blacks outnumber whites by a factor of five in general population, which would explain the disparity in numbers.
This is the key point here: without normalization, and having no idea of the population sizes, you might erroneously assume that a black is just as safe (or in as much danger) being in an all-white area as a white would be in an all black area. Normalization of the data takes out that uncertainty and displays the true meaning of the data. This is why normalization is used in nearly every statistical type of analysis, because it highlights the true value of a given statistic with less uncertainty.
Or, put another way, lets assume the violent crime statistics were equal, that blacks committed 320,082 violent crimes on whites, and whites committed the exact same number of violent crimes on blacks, 320,082. It would be an extremely common conclusion for people who don't understand what those numbers represent (which is probably most people, particularly uneducated people or race agitators) to trumpet that whites commit just as many violent crimes against blacks, and that it is white prejudice and racism that leads people to believe that black neighborhoods are more dangerous to whites than white neighborhoods are to blacks, and that "white flight" is due to racism, and not a result of fear of violent crime. And that also would mean that white businesses that leave black neighborhoods are guilty of racism, instead of the real danger that they are constantly being robbed, held up, or looted, not to mention the physical security costs of doing business in a black neighborhood.
So that is why the 5x value is normalized to 25x due to population normalization, and displays more accurately the real danger the statistics convey with less uncertainty. But this 25x number is for all violent crime which encompasses everything from simple mugging (by gunpoint, knife or threat) and rape all the way up to murder.
if you separate out the specific types of violent crime that result in bodily injury (up to and including murder) such as pistol whipping, rape with additional physical damage, beatings with everything from hammers to soldering irons, shootings, stabbings, torture (basically anything that results in a need for medical treatment) the statistics change dramatically.
The definition of aggravated assault is: A person is guilty of aggravated assault if he or she attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another or causes such injury purposely, knowingly, or recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life; or attempts to cause or purposely or knowingly causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon. In all jurisdictions statutes punish such aggravated assaults as assault with intent to murder (or rob or kill or rape) and assault with a dangerous (or deadly) weapon more severely than "simple" assaults. (from West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.): Aggravated assault n. the crime of physically attacking another person which results in serious bodily harm and/or is made with a deadly or dangerous weapon such as a gun, knife, sword, ax or blunt instrument. Aggravated assault is usually a felony punishable by a term in state prison.
In this case, if you carve out only aggravated assault and normalize the data for the population disparity, you are 200x more likely to be a victim of beatings, shootings, stabbings, rapes, etc. if you are white victim encountering a black criminal as opposed to a black victim encountering a white criminal.
It is pretty grim, no matter how you slice it. When I read those statistics, I clearly understand that "white flight" (white people leaving neighborhoods where black populations rise past a given point) is not at all due to racism, but is due to self-preservation.
Great graphics.
There is no doubt in my mind he is intentionally fanning the flames. That is the only explanation that makes sense.
It is an Alinsky community organizer tactic, to find something that is bothering people you want to polarize into action, and then poking it, exacerbating it, magnifying and amplifying it to the point people are galvanized into community action.
It is no secret. He has openly stated that “Rules For Radicals” is his bible (certainly far more of a bible to him than the real Bible) and he makes no bones about his admiration for a scumbag like Alinsky.
So, I don’t think there is any question that Barack Obama is trying to “not letting this crisis go to waste”.
+1.
I thought they were brilliant in their simplicity. The secret to great communication with graphics is in boiling them down to a point where you can look at it and see immediately the point being communicated.
On a side note, I have this graphic on my wall at work, because it is widely considered to be one of the best graphics ever created to convey data at a glance...it describes Napoleon's army as it invaded Russia, and you see the scale, time, distance, temperature, and casualties all in one glance, and it conveys the utter defeat, horror and hardship of that army. One can almost see the bloodstained snow, frozen bodies and starving men just looking at it:
Excellent video that tells it like it is.
This thing needs to be seen 300 million times — by every American. The thugs and liars need to be exposed.
Agreed.
If you haven’t seen them, I highly recommend ALL of his videos. I think the guy is brilliant.
bttt
Thank you for your post.
I’ve seen some of his videos but this one really goes into something others will never discuss. He laid it out and it is very hard for someone to dispute it.
If those are categorical facts, they are either true or false. There is no need for an examination of our feelings regarding the matter, so taking this matter from the Democrats’ hands, it can be properly analyzed.
Assuming those (very nice) graphics are true, it is apparent that someone or some group is ‘cherry-picking’ victims from a homogenous (not at all discrete) group, then inciting civil disturbance, riot and property destruction—criminal activities, including felonies—furthermore, doing so by using a cynical framework which is shamelessly self-interested and has become an Alinsky paint-by-number methodology.
I.M. Obvious, Phd
It's all very sickening and wretched.
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