Unfortunately, it's long been the case that the only people "allowed" to mention such things are minorities, and Dr. Sowell and Mr. Elder, being black, can get away with it without having their careers destroyed although because they approach the matter from a Conservative viewpoint, their views are poo-poohed by the Leftist dominant media and generally sneered at....so, the information never gets beyond Conservative circles and the problems they speak of remain largely neglected as a result.
To some extent, I don’t think this is bad. The important thing about a criminal is that he’s committed a crime, not his skin color or ethnicity. On the other hand, if crime is concentrated in immigrant populations or welfare populations, this should (ha ha) motivate governments and voters to reconsider welfare and immigration policies.
In a perfect world, when there's a criminal activity overwhelmingly associated with a particular ethnic group I think that it would be helpful to identify the situation as such, as this would allow police to focus their limited resources in the most advantageous manner and would allow any forthright ethnic community leaders to step up to the task and work toward addressing those concerns of that community. As innumerable Conservative pundits have mentioned, racial profiling does indeed work in many circumstances, but it's a political non-starter.
Unfortunately, the world is far from perfect and if police were to even THINK of focusing their resources along ethnic / racial lines, the howling that would erupt from those communities would deafen everyone on the planet. Similarly, I haven't seen evidence of the existence of any ethnic 'leaders' here in the USA who are so very forthright that they would welcome such a focus on their community, and so the problems continue.
It will be very interesting to see whether simply stating that Pakistani Moslems are running child prostitution rings in some parts of Britain will cause rioting among Moslems - and whether the other groups mentioned, Caribbean Blacks and Turks, are also going to react to being identified with crime.
Indeed it will. As is to be expected from the ultra-PC BBC, the racial / ethnic component of this matter is not mentioned at all at this program's Panorama page and so it will be a surprise to many when the program airs.
Good point. The same journalists have observed that communities with "leaders" are in trouble, because there's no payoff for "leaders" if the individuals make their own decisions about their own priorities.