This is secular leftists trying to do on mortal power what only the church can do.
I don’t criticize the sentiment nearly as much as the method.
what they don’t say is that most crime is committed by certain groups....
Its impossible to address crime without addressing its inverse relationship to personal virtue. Societies are made up of individuals; abandon virtue as a society and watch your society unravel.
In simplest terms, crime can be tied pretty directly to broken families and substance abuse. Broken families and substance abuse.
It isn’t poverty. Poor neighborhoods, in a society in which families are intact and virtue is the norm, are as safe as any other.
Criminology is dominated by liberal academics.
Their theories contradict real world experience.
But that’s okay, because for them, criminals aren’t the problem.
Society is the problem.
You mean “midnight basketball” didn’t work?? I’d guess that ghetto basketball is taking a backseat to drivebys.
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This is my field - the author is spot on!
Leftists are a cancer, they foul everything they touch. We do nothing to stop it, so our country is a dump.
Criminal activity is a personal choice, period.
I’m guessing the question is “Are blacks prone to committing robbery and murder due to genetics or culture?”
Is this going to impact my investment in the midnight basketball dealership?
The article is right on. James Q. Wilson was a leading criminologist and his writings still hold up today. I was reading them 40 years ago when I was getting my Police Science degree. To say that he was “prescient” is an understatement.
Two other items. The FBI agent who sued the Bureau over racial discrimination (Rochon v. FBI ###) was a legitimate case, but the black FBI agent Rochon hired a top Communist Party supporter attorney from Philadelphia to represent him (why I don’t know, possibly the pinkos’ reputation as a good litigator).
One of the thinks that the lawyer did (Kairys) was to try and get a list of all FBI agents in the US, where they live, their race, etc). Fortunately retired FBI agents got the stupid judge to deny this request on national security grounds. There is no doubt that the list would have ended up in the hands of the KGB through the attorney (he was a member of several congressionally identified and cited Communist Party USA fronts including the National Lawyers Guild and the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (the latter more of a Soviet legal weapon than the older NLG). [[Kairys, if I remember correctly, taught “Law” at Temple University’s Law School, possibly with his pink partner named Rudovsky]].
Rochon had a legitimate grievance against the Bureau but he chose a red to represent him which could have totally compromised the FBI. What the hell was he thinking? He let his skin color rule his common sense and would have sold out the country for a few bucks.
Today he is a largely forgotten fool.
By the way, as I have mentioned previously, inside the old Washington Field Office (now known as Trump International Hotel in DC), were two photos of slain FBI agents, right as you came into the main room.
The SAC of that office was really shaken by their deaths at the hand of a common criminal, and he was particularly upset that one of the agents was one of the first black FBI agents they had. He liked both of them and mourned their loss.
The other comment I want to make is in the article, the authors suggest that the police go back to the old tactic of watching high crime areas and going after known criminals. Well, folks, this is called “profiling” by the Marxist and black extremist Left.
If some Amish youth are perpetrating criminal acts, you don’t look in the Chinese community for them. So, to the Left, in order to protect the criminals and attack the police, they came up with a perverted definition of “profiling” which liberal/leftist judges accepted without challenge from communist/Marxist/leftist liberal lawyers.
I once did a “ride along” with a DC Vice/Narcotics officer and he gave me a 3-5 inch printout of known criminals who were either wanted or on a watch list (i.e. parole, probation status). The police knew who these people were.
In fact, he called one man over, by name. The man came over to the unmarked car and said to the office, “How did you know my name?” to which the cop said, “Hey dumbo, I arrested you 6 months ago. Are you clean today”?
The shocked man said “Yes” and left, shaken by the fact the that the police knew who he was and where he was.
Now that is what I call first class “profiling”. The ex-perp probably needed a change of underwear after that little “tet a tet”.
Moral of the story - PROFILING WORKS.
Excellent article. Another academic gambles with his career. He’s not at an Ivy League institution so his chances of surviving an episode of truth-telling are probably enhanced.
-——But 50 years of research on the topic have failed to find the smoking gun linking justice-system disparities to racism. Claims to the contrary often manipulate data or ignore them altogether. In the case of the DOJ reports, and in the eyes of many criminologists, racism has to be the cause of these disparities because recognizing the truth about the huge racial imbalance in crime is political intolerance——
Whoa... You mean my white privilege isn’t the cause of black criminals committing the vast majority of crime as a precent of the population.
I’m shocked..../s