'COPS' Creator Reveals Intentional Distortions on Race and Crime

Townhall ^ | May 31, 2011 | Guy Benson

[mcosta79]

John Langley, the creator of the long-running FOX program, COPS...says he's irked by some media critics who accuse the show of perpetuating stereotypes about "people of color" by depicting a disproportionate percentage of minority suspects. Au Contraire, Langley protests, he intentionally shows an inordinate number of white suspects in order to side-step the facts. "I show more white people than, statistically, what the truth is."

[MrB]

Political Correctness = Cultural Marxism

[slumber1]

This whole problem is all about black culture and the genetic predisposition for violence that black people have.

Culture yes, genetic predisposition, no

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Spell czech is knot yore friend! 8^)

[safeasthebanks]

"...genetic predisposition for violence that black people have"

Is that you, Mr Duke?

[RadiationRomeo]

There is a completely different side of this story.

The prison system needs to keep a certain ratio of black/white inmates. The new inmates are mostly black which results in no whites getting parole. Whites spend most or all of their sentences.

[arthurus]

He is showing more black criminals than is deemed politically useful by the left.

[hoagy62]

You obviously haven’t seen the episodes done in Pierce County, Washington...and there were several.

We’ve got the same type of thugs, nutballs, and freaks as they do in South Florida...just with a worse climate.

[mcosta79]

The only time I notice any racial aspect of COPS is when a white cop chases down a black perp. On foot, I mean. It always surprises me. LOL. "Why don't I see that on Monday Night Football!?"

[Mrs. Don-o]

You'll have to document that "genetic predisposition for violence" thing. Something often in the past alleged of Irish, Scot-Irish (Ulster) and even German people ("The Blonde Beast") --- but overall eludes genetic proof.

My money's on culture, the most important element of which is family tructure. At the time of the Harlem Renaissance ----an historic upsurge in African-American creativity in the arts, music, drama, literature, scholarship and civic leadership --- 90% of the black childred in Harlem lived in intact- married- mother'n'father households. Now the statistic is almost exactly reversed.

Believe me, family structure is the biggie. That, and active membership in a Christian church.

[Texas Eagle]

"Why don't I see that on Monday Night Football!?"

Exactly.

[anton]

Understand that publishing on the genetic link to violence is a career ending event, so what literature is published is pretty oblique. but, there is no question about it. Start by Googling MAO-A and gene and you will get the drift.

Professors are fired and funding lost for any mention of this verboten topic. Like the Bell Curve was buried three decades ago.

[BillM]

Why not check out the statistics world wide among african populations? This is not just an American problem. In particular consider Biafra and Rwanda.

[steveo]

All one needs to do is get a police scanner. Listen to reports of assault, robbery, grab and run shoplifting and whatever... then note the physical description of the perps.

[JimRed]

...the genetic predisposition for violence that black people have...

Source, please?

Cultural, for sure, but genetic? That sounds like the stuff the Klan promoted a hundred years ago.

[yldstrk]

Yeah, I don’t think it’s genetic. Resentment justified by politicians has a lot to do with it.

[cripplecreek]

Culture yes, genetic predisposition, no

Agreed, its driven by race pimps who get rich by keeping blacks angry.

[marktwain]

I once saw a stat on this site that took my breath away. If you took out black and hispanic crime verses only white crime compared to only the white population. There was virtually no crime in the country.

Yes, crime is mostly cultural. If you want to predict the crime rates of a particular group in America, look at the crime rates of the country that they or their ancestors came from. You will find that they are very close.

As an example, homicide rates are some of the most accurate statistics that we can track, so they bypass a lot of error producing problems with gathering and reporting statistics. The rate of homicides of Japanese Americans is slightly lower than the rate of Japanese in Japan, which is quite low indeed.

[arthurus]

Cultural rather than genetic and the "black" culture of the present was constructed by the Left in America. Black crime stats were much lower relative to the present in the forties and fifties when blacks were making the move out of the still relatively impoverished south into the northern manufacturing cities. They brought their family values and Christianity with them and were working up through the system as all immigrant or quasi immigrant in this case, populations have done in the USofA until they hit the mud of the War on Poverty and the mud got thicker and thicker until it more resembles cured cement.

[smokingfrog]

A lot of crimes are black-on-black. Young black males are the most likely to be a victim of murder. Black male unemployment is at a 40 year high.

[MrB]

That’s still not controlling for culture.
Yes, African cultures are dysfunctional, and produce criminals (by Western standards).

And my reference to our standards vs theirs is simply an acknowledgement that some things we consider crimes are accepted in their cultures.