The police state needs to justify its existence and expansion through increased crime and incarcerations. Who better to exploit than the very ethnicity the demoncrats have ALWAYS exploited?
Posted on 11/14/2023 5:22:08 AM PST by MtnClimber
Public safety has been destroyed in many American cities because of an idea. That idea holds that any law-enforcement activity that has a disparate impact on black criminals is racist. Disparate impact is why many police departments have dismantled gang databases and antigun task forces, why they have given up on public-order enforcement, and why they have all but eliminated car stops. It is why “progressive” district attorneys have stopped prosecuting trespassing, shoplifting, fare evasion, and resisting arrest, why bail is being eliminated, and why judges let repeat offenders back on the street. Disparate impact is the reason that chain stores like Starbucks and Walgreens would rather close high-loss outlets than accost thieves.
Until the disparate-impact conceit is demolished, permanently restoring law and order will be impossible. Any short-term gains from renewed enforcement will remain vulnerable to the charge that they have come at the expense of racial equity. Conservatives can call for re-policing all they want. Unless they explicitly discredit the idea that incarcerating black criminals is racist, however, Democratic politicians and policymakers will be able to use disparate rates of stops and arrests to roll back constitutional crime control whenever they have the power to do so.
Only a president has the national reach to engage this most difficult of all “conversations about race.” If the next president does not have the fortitude to do so personally, his attorney general should assume the responsibility. The next AG should lay out in a national speech the dilemma facing law enforcement: in order to save black lives, police officers will have to stop and arrest black criminals in numbers greatly disproportionate to the black share of the population. He should give the victimization facts: black juveniles were shot at 100 times the rate of white juveniles since the George Floyd race riots; blacks between the ages of ten and 24 were killed in gun homicide at 24 times the rate of whites in that age cohort. Those black victims are not being gunned down by America’s alleged white supremacists or by the police; they are being gunned down by other blacks, at rates equally disproportionate to the black population share. Providing justice to those black victims will require putting more black criminals in prison.
The next attorney general should challenge Black Lives Matter activists to say the names of the dozens of black children slain in drive-by shootings by blacks since the 2020 George Floyd riots. When Al Sharpton and civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump came to Minneapolis to commemorate the first anniversary of Floyd’s death, why, the attorney general should ask, did they avoid a hospital in North Minneapolis where a ten-year-old boy and a nine-year-old girl were in adjacent rooms, having both been shot in the head in separate drive-bys? The girl died a few days after the Sharpton-Crump visit; the boy will be disabled for life. Their lives mattered, too, but they are of no interest to the race agitators.
Well-meaning Americans also turn their eyes away from black crime, in deference to racial etiquette. Such etiquette, however understandable, is costing lives. It will continue to do so unless the next presidential administration tells the truth about law enforcement and crime. Only then will the police be able to protect safety without the false stigma of racism.
Black lives only seem to mater when they can be exploited by the democRATs.
Nothing will change until we muster the courage to hold blacks accountable.
The article is of course correct. But we must dig one layer deeper. Thanks to the Democrats and the GOPe, there are no job opportunities in the inner cities. And idle hands are the devil’s workshop. Does that excuse this criminal behavior? No! But it does help explain it.
Trump had the solution. Bring industry back to America. Give inner city folks the chance to work at good factory jobs. Trump was thwarted in his first term. Hopefully he will have more luck in his second.
“That IDEA holds that any law-enforcement activity that has a disparate impact on black criminals is racist.“
What about the FACT that blacks have a disparate impact on crime? No one is locking them up out of meanness.
How about the idea that a majority of the criminal activity is committed by a certain segment of the population and therefore, a majority of the prosecution is against same?
And the bigger problem with these inner-city populations isn’t that they are filled with unemployed people … it’s that they’re filled with UNEMPLOYABLE people.
The police state needs to justify its existence and expansion through increased crime and incarcerations. Who better to exploit than the very ethnicity the demoncrats have ALWAYS exploited?
The only real Disparate impact is on the innocent blacks that have to live under the left’s retarded governance because they are the ones who bear nearly 100% of the impact of these policies.
“... there are no job opportunities in the inner cities. “
This goes back to why there are cities in the first place. Cities were located on trade routes. The trade brought a concentration of people who lived off of and supported trade. Synergism led to more industry, which led to more jobs. The more industry, the more people the more industry. But people running cities, politicians, started bleeding (taxing) industry. Then government started regulating industry. Regulation means taxing. Government started supporting wild-eyed political aims like Global Warming, Net Zero and crazy enabling laws like must hire particular groups so they have representation...LGBT++, blacks, etc. The overhead for even having industry became too great in cities. Throw in the politics of unions and things start to look unpleasant. So, industry relocated along the path of least resistance. That is as far away from cities as possible. In some cases, due to anti-business regulations, to other countries. This wasn’t something they wanted to do as coordinating a company across continents isn’t cheap or easy. It’s because governments at all levels made the corporate jungle into a desert.
Back when I was in college New York garbage collectors were already earning more than I’d make per year in my first twenty years. Plus, they had an amazing retirement plan. You can’t have companies return to cities as long as cities are run for the benefit of politicians rather than for the citizens. There are so many entities in the Chicago area that have taxing authority it’s amazing there are any jobs there at all. There are local park authorities with the ability to tax citizens and companies. You’d be crazy to locate a business there. Politically, none of this can end because there are too many people “invested” in the government jobs and retirement. Therefore, the cities must fail before they can be reborn. This is just the way it is and there is not solution until the local, state and federal governments are effectively gone.
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them.” - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
> And the bigger problem with these inner-city populations isn’t that they are filled with unemployed people … it’s that they’re filled with UNEMPLOYABLE people. <
I talk for decades in inner-city high schools. Some of my classes were 90% or more black. And even in the worst of those classes, most of the kids were okay. They had serious attendance problems. And a few disruptive students ruined the learning for everyone.
But here’s the thing. When they were there, most of those kids at least tried. They made the effort.
Given a bit of structure, most of them would do well. And nothing provides structure like a good factory paycheck.
> there is not solution until the local, state and federal governments are effectively gone <
You make many good points. Perhaps “effectively gone” is better replaced by “out of the way”.
I actually share your rather pessimistic outlook. If Trump wins in 2024, he can hopefully bring some industry back. But as you noted, city and state governments will continue to block progress with all sorts of regulations and taxes. The road forward will not be easy at all.
It doesn’t matter how many police you have, or how many they arrest, if the perps walk immediately or get lenient plea bargain.
To reduce crime, you have to get the chronic offenders off the streets.
Toyota’s production facility in Georgetown, Kentucky covers an area of something like 8 million square feet. I challenge anyone to find a parcel of land anywhere near a major U.S. inner city that could accommodate an operation like that.
Go talk to anyone who has managed a government-funded construction project on an Indian reservation how well things worked out for them.
Very good summary a what destroyed our civilization.
“I challenge anyone to find a parcel of land anywhere near a major U.S. inner city that could accommodate an operation like that.”
I accidentally took a wrong exit and ended up in Detroit. If you’d showed me black and white photos and told me it was post WWII Berlin, I’d have believed it. Block after block of burned out and boarded up buildings. I suspect if Toyota had wanted to relocate there Detroit would have condemned and seized the required land. The reason Toyota located where they did was because the tax and non-union labor structure enabled them to move there and be profitable. Detroit can’t make a deal like that as the union/government stranglehold on the area is too great.
The Obama administration wanted to force winners of a particular army contract to locate in Detroit. General Dynamics won by saying they’d build the stuff in “Detroit.” By that they meant the postal code, which is nowhere near the actual city. (Although, it is in what the employees called “the nine-millimeter drop zone.” So called because you can find expended bullets fired from Detroit in the parking lot.) GD moved other business that was being built in that plant to a different plant, so the additional jobs presupposed by the contract didn’t actually exist.
In all of 2019, after millions of arrests nationwide, 54 cops murdered while only 2 unarmed black men were killed by cops unjustifiably, and the cops in both those cases were convicted
There is no “systemic racism” in the police force despite a few high profile cases of individuals or groups of bad cops
If anything, cops coddle black criminals for fear of negative public backlash as evidenced by the article in this thread.
There is plenty of vacant land in Detroit
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