Murders by Black Teenagers Rise, Bucking a Trend

New York Times ^ | December 29, 2008 | Erik Eckholm

[reaganaut1]

The murder rate among black teenagers has climbed since 2000 even as murders by young whites have scarcely grown or declined in some places, according to a new report.

The celebrated reduction in murder rates nationally has concealed a “worrisome divergence,” said James Alan Fox, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University who wrote the report, to be released Monday, with Marc L. Swatt. And there are signs, they said, that the racial gap will grow without countermeasures like restoring police officers in the streets and creating social programs for poor youths.

The main racial difference involves juveniles ages 14 to 17. In 2000, 539 white and 851 black juveniles committed murder, according to an analysis of federal data by the authors. In 2007, the number for whites, 547, had barely changed, while that for blacks was 1,142, up 34 percent.

The increase coincided with a rise in the number of murders involving guns, Dr. Fox said. The number of young blacks who were victims of murder also rose in this period.

Murder rates around the country are far below the record highs of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when a crack epidemic spawned violent turf battles.

“Regrettably, as the nation celebrated the successful fight against violent crime in the 1990s, we grew complacent and eased up on our crime-fighting efforts,” the authors said.

The report primarily blames cutbacks in federal support for community policing and juvenile crime prevention, reduced support for after-school and other social programs, and a weakening of gun laws. Cuts in these areas have been felt most deeply in poor, black urban areas, helping to explain the growing racial disparity in violent crime, Dr. Fox said.

[reaganaut1]

The paper by Fox and Swatt is at http://www.jfox.neu.edu/Documents/Fox%20Swatt%20Homicide%20Report%20Dec%2029%202008.pdf . If "social programs for poor youths" were the answer, the juvenile crime rate would be much lower today than in 1960. I think it is higher (anyone have stats?).

[Ken522]

The increase coincided with a rise in the number of murders involving guns, Dr. Fox said.

It's those darn guns again, always going out and shooting people all by themselves!

[STONEWALLS]

“......the racial gap will grow without countermeasures like restoring police officers in the streets and creating social programs for poor youths.”

...and that means higher taxes on those of us who obey the law....a concept that I’m sure the Dems will embrace....I’m really running out of patience with this nonsense.

[nobama08]

We justg need to bring back midnight basketball!

[yawningotter]

Can we all say it together: IT’S BUSH’S FAULT!!!!!

[Larry R. Johnson]

Guilt guilt guilt! This crap is just another sorry-lefty white guilt trip, so typical of the whining NYTimes! Nary a mention of the culture of death promoted by “hip-hop” or whatever that crap is called today.

[ought-six]

“and that means higher taxes on those of us who obey the law....a concept that I’m sure the Dems will embrace....I’m really running out of patience with this nonsense.”

Running out? Hell, I ran out of patience for this scam years ago.

[ETL]

Source: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31617_Obama_Gave_Bill_Ayers_Book_a_Rave_Review/comments/#ctop
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From The Weekly Standard, 'Barack Obama's Lost Years', 08/11/2008:

"Ayers opposes trying even the most vicious juvenile murderers as adults. Beyond that, he'd like to see the prison system itself essentially abolished. Unsatisfied with mere reform, Ayers wants to address the deeper 'structural problems of the system.' Drawing explicitly on Michel Foucault, a French philosopher beloved of radical academics, Ayers argues that prisons artificially impose obedience and conformity on society, thereby creating a questionable distinction between the 'normal' and the 'deviant.' The unfortunate result, says Ayers, is to leave the bulk of us feeling smugly superior to society's prisoners. Home detention, Ayers believes, might someday be able to replace the prison. Ayers also makes a point of comparing America's prison system to the mass-detention of a generation of young blacks under South African Apartheid. Ayers's tone may be different, but the echoes of Jeremiah Wright's anti-prison rants are plain."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/386abhgm.asp?pg=2
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
-Bill Ayers, New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"This is a guy [Bill Ayers] who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."

[ought-six]

“Nary a mention of the culture of death promoted by “hip-hop” or whatever that crap is called today.”

Hip-Hop, Rip-Rap. Same same.

[Thrownatbirth]

In the WaPo obits, it’s easy to spot the thugs you KNOW didn’t die of natural causes.

[barb-tex]

Bro. Fox is saying to the New King, “ put me on your Gimme List.”Maybe Midnight Basketball would help, Oh, I know we tried that,and it didn't work, but we had good intentions;
barbra ann

[DieHard the Hunter]

> The report primarily blames cutbacks in federal support for community policing and juvenile crime prevention, reduced support for after-school and other social programs, and a weakening of gun laws.

I blame hip-hop/rap music, the gangsta sub-culture, and the lawless attitudes and role models that these provide to impressionable young teenagers.

But hey, what do I know? I’m not a pointy-headed intellectual paper-writer. I’m just a private citizen and a Volunteer.

[sphinx]

Can we all say it together: IT’S BUSH’S FAULT!!!!!

Yes, the result of eight years of the savage Bush budget cuts.

The MSM and half the electorate believe this.

[joeu01]

More pabulum from Prof. Fox. More social programs and more police.

The destruction of the black family began when Pres. Johnson started ‘Great Society’ programs with incentives ($) to kick fathers out of the home.

Some 80% of young black men are raised only by single mothers and therein lies the problem. Broken families with no fathers thanks to federal programs lead to out of control young men.

[ETL]

Nary a mention of the culture of death promoted by “hip-hop” or whatever that crap is called today.

Rapper 'Ludacris'

Lyrics to Ludacris' Obama rap song, "Obama Is Here":

"With a slot in the President's iPod, Obama shouted him

Said I handled my biz and I'm one of his favorite rappers

Well give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer

Better yet put me in office, make me a Vice President

Hillary hated on you so that bitch is irrelevant

Now Jesse talkin slick and apologizin for WHAT~?!

If you said it then you MEANT it how you want it, head or gut

And all you other politicians tryin to hate on my man

Watch us win majority vote in every STATE on my man

You cain't stop what's 'bout to happen, we 'bout to make history

The first black President it's destined and it's meant to be

The threats ain't fazin us, the nooses or the jokes

Get off your ass black people it's time to get out and vote

Paint the White House black and I'm sure that's got 'em terrified

McCain don't belong in ANY chair unless he's paralyzed

Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped

Ball up all of his speeches and just throw 'em like candy wraps

Cause what you talkin I hear nothin even relevant

And you the worst of all 43 Presidents

Get out and vote, or the end'll be near

And the world is ready for change cause Obama is here

YEAHHH! Cause Obama is here

The world is ready for change cause Obama is here

Yeahhhh, cause Obama is here

Say world is ready for change cause Obama is here

Hey!

http://lyrics.rapbasement.com/Ludacris_Politics%20(Obama%20Is%20Here)_lyrics_2129.html

[bert]

Hussein gave the world notice rhat Rap is dead. He will bring Jazz to the Whitehouse. The message to his black support leadership is drop hiphop

Now that the election is over America will learn that tens of thousands of black on black murders occurred while a few Soldiers were being killed in Iraq.

[DJ Taylor]

"The report primarily blames cutbacks in federal support for community policing and juvenile crime prevention, reduced support for after-school and other social programs, and a weakening of gun laws."

"Conservative criminologists place greater emphasis on the breakdown of black families, rather than cuts in government programs, in explaining the travails of black youths."

In a typical example of New York Times' liberal biased reporting, the obvious reason for crime in the black community is simply dismissed as the opinion of CONSERVATIVE criminologists.

[WaterBoard]

tag

[arthurus]

The only “social programs” that have any prospect of improving the situation at all are anathema to the left and the government (increasingly the same thing) and that is self control, self improvement, actual education and marriage/family.