Posted on 04/29/2012 5:17:42 AM PDT by rellimpank
WASHINGTON — In a single week last April, 3 people were killed with guns in Philadelphia, 14 more were shot and wounded, 68 robberies were carried out at gunpoint and a total of 144 crimes involving firearms were reported.
During that same week in San Diego, a city of roughly the same size with far fewer police officers, there were no gun-related homicides, 2 people wounded by gunshots, 4 robberies committed at gunpoint and a total of only 20 gun-related crimes.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
As far as I’m concerned “black culture” was an artificial creation of the left to begin with. Just like the pressure to create a “hispanic culture”, its an attempt to divide.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania = 43.4% black.
San Diego County, California = 5.1% black.
Next question?
Better description: "gun violence is tightly concentrated in urban neighborhoods with disfunctional families, its perpetrators mostly minorities
Gun control is kinda like trying to solve drunk driving by making it harder for sober people to own cars.
Gee, what could explain any differences between Philly and San Diego? It’s just a total mystery.
“I think the issue is culture more so than race”...search South Africa + ANC...then tell us that it’s not aat least a partial function of a depraved race!
Idiot Republicans that shill for Affirmative Action, Section 8 Housing and unlimited emigration are as guilty of losing this country as any leftist!
You beat me to saying it. I’m not sure I would have said the same words but I would have said something similar.
Crime rates in black society have not always been high like this but they shot up when the Federal Government decided to be the father in our inner city and gave people nothing to do all day other than sit around the TV or deal and use drugs. When Hollywood decided to glorify the “Rap” culture and all the evil it brings, then things went down hill even faster.
Until the 1960’s there was little or no welfare. The poverty rate is higher now than then. 2/3rds of our tax money go to welfare. If we were to stop ALL welfare what would happen? People would have to go to work to live, they wouldn’t have time for all the crime that goes on in the inner city. Our “Progressive” society has ruined our society.
The thing is it isn’t about poverty. Asians are poor but their kids excel in school and then they get out of poverty. Illegal Mexicans and other Latinos come here poor and send their kids to school and they get out of poverty. Why is it that only the Negroes have this problem. It is not a race thing, it is a culture thing. We tell little black kids that all they can expect is to have a baby out of wedlock and live on the Government dime. We tell sixteen year old girls that all they have to do is go and have sex, get knocked up and they can get out of their mothers house and get their own place for free.
We have got to get rid of the idea that we can have sub-cultures in our society. Multiculturalism ruins societies. If you don’t want to be an American then go somewhere your values are the norm.
Again, the crime in our inner-cities have nothing to do with guns. It is all about race. Cities with largely white populations do not have near the crime as black populations. The Black crime is not a factor of race but of culture. As long as black parents teach their kids that beating up women and shooting “The Man” is a good thing it will keep happening. As long as black families teach their kids that it is evil to be like the white “overseer” then we will have problems. As long as we continue to allow terms like whitey and cracker in our society but disallow terms like “nigger” unless you are black we will continue to have problems.
I remember well the 1950’s, at least the early 50’s when blacks were not treated fairly but had their own living areas. We had maids so we went into those areas to pick up our maids and take them home. We were entertained in their homes. The hate was not there. The hate is there now. The young black man hates the white man as a rule. He is taught that from youth. Many black children break the habit of white hate and become productive members of society, even white society.
White society does not hold black people down. Yes there are racist white people, there always will be, but there are people that hate others for their religion, their ugliness and obesity too. We live with it, we turn the other way when we see it but we live with it. It has been my experience that white people as a whole don’t hate any other race.
The world works a lot better without the hate. is a good thing it will keep happening. As long as black families teach their kids that it is evil to be like the white
BS is absolutly correct.
Average decent handgun = $400.00
30 x $400 = $12,000
A $12,000 cash transaction is reported to what agency again?
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=148821,00.html
FAQs Regarding Reporting Cash Payments of Over $10,000 (Form 8300)
Filing Requirements
Reportable Transactions
Filing Requirements:
Who must file Form 8300? Any persons who receive more than $10,000 in one transaction or a series of related transactions, while conducting their trade or business, must file a Form 8300.
What payments must be reported?
A business must file Form 8300 to report cash paid to it if the cash payment is:
Over $10,000,
Received as:
One lump sum of over $10,000,
Two or more related payments that total in excess of $10,000,
or Payments received as part of a single transaction (or two or more related transactions) that cause the total cash received within a 12-month period to total more than $10,000.
Received in the course of trade or business,
Received from the same payer (or agent),
and Received in a single transaction or in two or more related transactions.
What is the definition of a transaction?
A transaction is the underlying event resulting in the transfer of cash. Examples include:
Sale of goods, services or real or intangible property
Rental of goods or real or personal property
Cash exchanged for other cash
Establishment, maintenance of or contribution to a trust or escrow account
A loan repayment
Conversion of cash to a negotiable instrument such as a check or a bond
What is a related transaction?
There are two types of related transactions:
Transactions between a buyer, or agent of the buyer, and a seller that occur within a 24-hour period are related transactions.
In addition, transactions more than 24 hours apart are related if the recipient of the cash knows, or has reason to know, that each transaction is one of a series of connected transactions.
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The social engineering foisted on blacks by Ivy League egg-heads has increased the violence, illegitimacy rates, numbers of abortions, numbers in prisons, changed the basic work ethic, and celebrates the degradation in music and film.
If I were a black man in this country, I would be pissed too.
They should try encouraging Christianity, it works every time.
Surprising enough the article does speak to the problem of black on black crime as to being the difference in stats...
Have no fear, the New York Times wears blinders - they can't see the elephant in the room.
city as of 2010 was:
44.2% Black
39.0% White
Census of 2010,
58.9% White,
6.7% African American
There. Discovered the answer in 8 minutes at a cost of Zero Tax Dollars
You decide which city is which but these numbers provide the answer to the question!
No one cares when it's black on black crime because there's no one to shake down for cash from guilty white liberals. Jesse Jackson will not show up. None of the circus members will be there - no cash to be had. No free press from a white liberal elite press - a press that hates conservative white middle class citizens... A press that will send every member available IF a white kills a black...
Black on black crime doesn't open liberal white wallets.
There no benefit for higher voter turn out based on an angry black community when it's black on black. Inner city organizations based on hatred of whites - and blaming them for all 'wrongs' have no payoff standing against black on black crime - they want it ignored...
Black on black crime doesn't allow for white liberal elites to grandstand their 'protection' of blacks... In short, when a black child dies at the hands of a black thug, the only person who cares is the child's mother.
Inner city killing can't be stopped with 'gun control' because a person who will ignore the laws about murder will surely ignore the laws about gun ownership.
Agreed, it is not race so much as subculture. Africa-born blacks don’t like the thug/gangsta lifestyle any more than the average white person does.
However, I don’t see too many gangbangin’ crack dealers and welfare ho’s going to vote.
It is the respectable members of the black community that keep voting for the very policies that are destroying their cities. What is it going to take for that particular demographic to decide they’ve had enough?
Name me ONE black-democrap-run city that isn’t a $h!thole.
In Philadelphia there have been black racist mobs attacking whites. The brains of justice in this city decided these were not hate crimes - just yutes having fun. In criminal justice, you can not arrive at vaild solutions if you can not tell the truth about the problem.
Most criminal gun violence is centered in a certain population as a result of that group’s culture of violence and racism’s hate, resentment and rage. You can not deny everyone their second amendment rights because you have one group that consistently abuses that right.
You put the criminals in jail and you leave everyone else alone. You address that group with mentors and people who can make a difference in the fatherless welfare culture of that group to live like free people with rights and responsibility. Taking on entertainment and diversity hate industries and clearing out gangs would go a long way to reducing gun violence that Phili suffers.
—yep—I thought that was a major breakthrough for the NYT—one of the reasons I posted it-—
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