Posted on 07/22/2016 4:07:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
After two decades of drastic crime reduction, homicides in America’s 50 largest cities increased by 17% in 2015. Following two decades of employing proactive police techniques whose greatest beneficiaries were residents of poor minority neighborhoods, officers suddenly started to face new obstacles. When working in inner cities, cops found themselves surrounded by jeering crowds whenever they attempted to make an arrest or simply interview citizens.
Predictably, officers then began to retreat from proactive policing techniques. Rather than questioning a suspicious person who appeared to be hiding a gun they let an armed robbery take place. They began reacting to crimes whose victims were almost always black. Whether they have been proactive or simply reacting, police have been a major presence in black neighborhoods for decades as a result of the persistent and steady breakdown of black families in America.
Much of the demand for a switch from proactive to reactive police techniques came from the press in the wake of the Ferguson protests of 2014. The media made much of the fact that blacks were more likely than whites to be stopped and questioned by police officers. Lacking in their reports was any mention of disproportionate black involvement in crime, which would have undercut the thesis that blacks were being targeting simply because of their race. In 2012, blacks were responsible for 58% of the robberies and 60% of the homicides in Missouri. This is despite the fact that blacks are less than 12% of the state’s total population.
It is also notable that 42% of all cop killers whose race has been identified are black. In contrast, little more than a quarter of all homicides by cops involve black victims. This is all relevant evidence in the ongoing public trial of the police. But it has been ruled inadmissible by the ideologically slanted judges among the media elite.
In the wake of their conviction in the court of public opinion, the police retreat from proactive engagement with suspects has had consequences, which have reverberated throughout the nation. For example:
-In Cleveland, homicides for 2015 were up by 90% over the previous year.
-In St. Louis, by the end of April 2015, shootings were up by 39%, robberies were up by 43%, and homicides were up by 25% compared to the previous year.
- By the end of May 2015 shootings in Chicago increased by 24% and homicides increased by 17% compared to the previous year. The surge continued into 2016 with 100 Chicagoans shot in the first ten days of January.
-Murders in Nashville rose 83% in 2015.
-Washington D.C. ended 2015 with a 54% increase in murders.
-Baltimore suffered its bloodiest month since 1972 with 45 murders in the first 30 days of July 2015. All but two of the murder victims were black.
-Minneapolis saw a 61% increase in homicides in 2015.
Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter “civil rights” activists march through the streets of St. Paul chanting “Pigs in a blanket. Fry ‘em like bacon.” It speaks volumes about the content of their character.
It is no coincidence that cities with large black populations have been hit the hardest by recent crime increases. When black agitators wage a public relations war on the police by hurling wild accusations of racism against white cops the result is predictable. They simply defend themselves by withdrawing from black communities. This, in turn, leaves black victims of black crime defenseless.
It is telling that the Washington Post has started collecting data on police shootings. In the process, they have discovered that 50% of police shootings in 2015 were white. Only 26% were black. This can hardly be called evidence of bias when one examines black involvement in crime rather than their representation in the general population, which is only 13%. Overall blacks were 62% of all robbery arrests, 57% of all murder arrests, and 45% of all assault arrests in the 75 largest U.S. counties in 2009. That pattern has been consistent for many years.
Moreover, the vast majority of the 258 black victims of police shootings in 2015 were armed. Those 258 victims were only a fraction of the roughly 6,000 blacks who were killed by other blacks in the same year. But black on black crime is seldom discussed in polite circles. Social justice warriors are not slaves to political correctness. They are now running the plantation.
In August 2015, a 9 year-old girl was killed in Ferguson when gunfire ripped through her house and then through her body when she was doing her homework on her mother’s bed. Yet very few people remember her name. In contrast, they do know the name of Michael Brown – a thug who propelled a movement by stealing from a black businessman and attempting to wrestle a gun from an innocent white cop he had just assaulted.
It should be readily apparent that today’s “civil rights” activists are not really social justice warriors. They are no longer trying to help society or even to advance justice. In fact, it is charitable to say that they ever were. They are simply progressive racists with an agenda that is both anti-social and unjust. Like most progressive causes it is killing the very people it claims to be saving and sustaining its own life with a potent combination of ignorance and propaganda.
In the end, it produces hypocrisy so rank that it cannot be obscured by the smell of rotting corpses.
Author’s Note: The sole source of information for this column is Heather MacDonald’s excellent new book The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe. None of the themes in this column were taken from Michelle Obama.
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The preferred end-state of the Black Lives Matter movement looks a lot like Robert Mugabe. Government by thugs, strongmen, and dictators. I guess they’re ok with that as long as those thugs, strongmen and dictators have the same skin tone. What a sad state of affairs.
Not to quibble with Mr. Adams’ column, but one paragraph needs to be expanded.
“They simply defend themselves by withdrawing from black communities. This, in turn, leaves black victims of black crime defenseless.”
Then the (usually) Democrat Mayor hires a black Police Chief in order to placate the few in the black community that are screaming for police protection. The new chief then holds the required “townhall” meeting to smooth over their anger over being targeted for crime. Then with the normal blacks placated, it is back to business as usual.
Less police, even less proactive police and more crime.
THAT is one reason I do not and will not live in any city.
As long as they get to be the thugs, strongmen, and dictators.
“.......police have been a major presence in black neighborhoods for decades as a result of the persistent and steady breakdown of black families in America.”........
The downfall of the black community falls directly on the shoulders of the demodummies who have promised everything and done nothing to help the blacks. The old saying of “keep them on the plantation” fits perfectly. Give them everything and you will keep them as loyal voters forever. black are finally rising up but direct their frustrations at the wrong people. If they could figure out that it is the demodummies who have kept them sucking off the gubmint tit since slavery was abolished, they might act differently. Expecting the black community to change their ways will take several generations.
Modern Socio-Darwinism?
Or just that same old Hosea 8:7 "Reap the whirlwind" thingy?
Mebbe we should take note of that Napoleonic tidbit concerning the enemy destroying themselves.
Either way, I hate it for the decent folks caught in the middle of this. But just like the muzzies, I see no counter protests from the s'posed "peaceful majority". So I guess their silence is consent. d:^)
Let’s look at those stats again:
Blacks killed by cops (of any race) in 2015: 258.
Blacks killed by other blacks in 2015: 6,000.
Black babies killed by their mothers in 2015: ???
And WHITES are the “racists” at war with blacks???
Whatever is propping up B(L)M, it isn’t logic. And it certainly isn’t morality, considering the level of hypocrisy apparent in these statistics.
Either way, I hate it for the decent folks caught in the middle of this. But just like the muzzies, I see no counter protests from the s’posed “peaceful majority”. So I guess their silence is consent. d:^)
Angela Dawson of Baltimore tried notifying the police about crime in her neighborhood. For her trouble, her house was firebombed, and all 7 of her family members were killed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_murder_case
You can be sure that silence does not always equal consent.
So the majority of the minority is afraid of the minority of the minority?
What happened to their leadership in the clergy? Where's the political leadership that isn't a JAMF, or, as stated by a member of thier clergy, a "long-legged mac daddy"? You wanna tell me their mommas can't haul their azz in from stupidity?
The "head-choppers" I've seen reported in this country prefer white victims IIRC.
I'm in absolute agreement with you concerning the decent folks. I grew up in & around this demographic thru the 70's. I've visited homes and enjoyed relationships with them. I've also been chastised by black principles and teachers when I was a stupid, rebellious kid. They put up with me a tried to help thru discipline and encouragement. They can sure enough still do the same with their own "troublesome" minority. d:^)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3451728/posts
A truly honest discussion of race would mention that for virtually every kind of crime, blacks are perpetrators in numbers wildly out of proportion to their number in the national population. For instance, young black males constitute no more than one to three percent of all Americans, yet they are responsible for over 50 percent of all murders.
A truly honest discussion of race would mention that police officers generally are more likely to shoot unarmed white suspects than blacks, while black and Hispanic officers are more likely than their white counterparts to shoot unarmed black suspects.
A truly honest discussion of race would mention that blacks shoot police officers at an astronomically higher rate than that at which officers have shot black suspects.
A truly honest discussion of race would mention that while black-on-black crime is indeed epic, the rate of black-on-white crime is nearly as high: Of the 560, 600 crimes of violence involving blacks and whites, blacks were perpetrators 84.9% of the time. Whites, in glaring contrast, targeted blacks only 3.6 % of the time.
A truly honest discussion of race would mention that, contrary to the conventional wisdom on display at Obama’s town hall, blacks are both the greatest racial victimizers and those least victimized by other races. Not only do they target the members of the white majority exponentially more frequently than the latter target them; so too do blacks target Hispanics at a rate rivaling that at which they select whites for acts of violence: Of the 256, 074 violent crimes involving blacks and Hispanics, the former attacked the latter 82.5% of the time, while blacks comprise only 4.7% of those targeted by Hispanics.
Yup, that's pretty bad. But it brings up more questions, IMO.
#1 How did it get out that she was the one that reported it? Is there no anonymity in that process to protect against this kind of retaliation?
#2 Where's the outrage from the community over this incident?
#3 If that's the reality of the community, that criminals are allowed by the police (for self defense from ambush both legal and illegal) and the citizenry to run amok, Then mebbe I'm mistaken and the criminal element is the majority.
If that be the case, seems the decent folks may be setting themselves up to be "collateral damage" when it truly does get outta hand and hasta be dealt with.
Either way, inaction will lead to an undesirable outcome. Something along the lines of Churchill's "If you will not fight" quote comes to mind. Society's attempt to curb this has been to dedicate resources to that issue, i.e. police activity and various social services. With the former currently being soundly rejected. And at least part of the latter being the root cause of this "universal" grief. So if it cannot be fixed from within, then we're destined to keep cycling thru a crescendo of violent incidents until it reaches that breaking point we keep reading about. Which never ends well.
But don’t you see what those figures do to the Complex’s ad campaign? They dissolve the moral position like lye dissolves grease.
There is NO moral authority behind B(L)M. None. Zero.
Good point.
Funny thing, the perps are more often the portrayed victim than the actual victim is. Gotta love our Pravda, eh? d:^)
We're "formering & lattering" all over this thread! Hehehe. d;^D
An honest discussion on race that can not BEGIN at a need for young, black males to join humanity is not honest.
You're right - and it's not an accident... The MSM would NEVER allow WHITE hotheads in their twenties to 'represent' the White Community.
Why?
Because all of us would know better. But they do allow young radicals and the criminal underclass to represent the Black Community. It serves the purpose of the White Liberal Elite Class to do so.
Without misperceptions on all sides, blacks might STOP propping up White Liberal Elites... Everyday whites couldn't be played for fear and guilt...AND the vast majority of Blacks would have the power to take back their neighborhoods from the thugs.
Powerful incentives to keep the lid on truth and squash anyone who tries to get off the liberal plantation - or even expose it for what it is...is the motive. White liberal elite liars have too much to lose... and they know it.
I would invite you to watch the TV series called The Wire all five seasons, or read the book The Corner: Life in an Inner City Neighborhood on which the series is based to get a handle on the feral problem. The inner city population is difficult to assess but to speak of a minority of a minority understates the reality.
The works cited are fiction but are based on solid research.
The Baltimore political situation revealed recently was indicated pretty much exactly in the two works cited.
But I'm not holding out on much hope of a mind change concerning majorities and minorities. From a quick search these 2 "crime dramas" seem to focus on a sampling of a subset to a subset in one city. And it's a big friggin country. Hehehe. d;^)
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