Houma dodged a racial bullet: James Varney

http://www.nola.com ^ | 9/26/14 | James Varney

[BBell]

If a white cop had shot and killed that 14-year-old kid in Houma last Tuesday, there's a good chance Houma would be a household word. The town dodged a racial bullet.

Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's deputies responded in force to reports armed "men" had entered an abandoned house. Houma is not some sprawling, crime-riddled metropolis; chances are good everyone knew or could see the house was abandoned.

It wasn't quite 6 p.m. - plenty of light left. Cameron Tillman, a black 14-year-old freshman at Ellender Memorial High School answered the door when the cops knocked. He was shot and killed. Initial reports were unclear on whether the teenager had been armed, although there was a vague mention of "weapons on the scene." Later, we learned the boy had a BB gun.

When the story broke Tuesday night, no details on the race of either Tillman or the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's deputy were provided. It was only subsequent reports that revealed the cop who killed the teenager was black, and now the story is quiet.

Then on Thursday a story emerged that a South Carolina state police trooper had shot an unarmed man in Columbia. The victim was trying to get his wallet out of his car when the trooper fired three shots. Fortunately, the trooper was such a lousy shot he only hit the man once in the hip. The incident was captured on the dashboard camera of the trooper's car; he has been fired and arrested.

How do we know about that obscure incident? The media has flooded the zone there. The Los Angeles Times sent one of their top reporters out to do a story on the wounding. CNN and ABC News are on the case.

In South Carolina, however, the trooper was a white man and the poor guy

[BBell]

A good editorial about a shooting,race and the police. I posted this yesterday.

Teen killed by Terrebonne Parish deputy was holding BB gun, newspaper reports

I sarcastically made the comment that it "Looks like we dodged a bullet". Maybe the author saw this.sarc

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: officer-involved shootings.

Do the MSM ever send "top" reporters to cover a white being shot? Worse evem.. since Ms Carey was black, did the MSM bother the assign "top" reporters to cover her being shot to death by a swarm of federal agents in D.C.?

The FBI figures below include the majority of all police departments. The point of this reply is to point out that whites are the most likely to die while being arrested for example. The Obama-Holder U.S. Dept. Just Us and the race-grievance industry will of course exploit all shootings to the max vis-a-vis race more than any concern for the poor victim.

The FBI stats show that whites are more likely to die while being arrested and IMO there is no doubt that some of those deaths were the intention of the police.

What about the larger number of whites and Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD)? Why is that okay with Obama, the race-grievance industry, and the media? We never see coverage of questionable ARDs involving whites that's anything close to Ferguson for example.

Arrest-Related Deaths, 2003-2009 - Statistical Tables

"From 2003 through 2009, a total of 4,813 deaths were reported to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD) program."

Of these, about 6 in 10 deaths (2,931) were classified as homicide by law enforcement personnel, and 4 in 10 (1,882) were attributed to other manners of death.

Table 1 Number of reported arrest-related deaths, by manner of death, 2003-2009

Manner of death	2003-2009	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
All manners	4,813	627	673	689	721	745	629	729
Homicide —by law enforcement	2,931	376	375	377	447	455	404	497
by other persons	27	3	4	4	2	7	3	4
Suicide	541	60	84	82	67	78	76	94
Intoxication	525	83	83	90	76	89	54	50
Accidental injury	272	53	41	47	39	35	28	29
Natural causes	244	26	46	32	34	42	33	31
Unknown	273	26	40	57	56	39	31	24

Note: Due to variation in reporting, caution should be used in comparing counts from year to year. See Methodology for information on missing data by state for each year. Counts may differ from previous publication due to additional information.

Table 5 Number of reported arrest-related deaths, by manner of death and demographic characteristics, 2003-2009

Demographic characteristics	All manners	Homicide	Suicide	Intoxication	Accident	Natural causes	Unknown
Total	4,813	2,958	541	525	272	244	273
Sex
Male	4,594	2,851	517	490	259	218	259
Female	218	107	24	35	13	26	13
Unknown	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Race/Hispanic origin
White, non-Hispanic	2,026	1,233	327	178	95	110	83
Black, non-Hispanic	1,529	937	80	217	111	85	99
Hispanic	949	599	110	109	55	29	47
Other*	150	107	12	17	4	4	6
Unknown	159	82	12	4	7	16	38
Age
17 or younger	127	99	6	5	13	0	4
18-24	909	685	80	53	54	10	27
25-34	1,391	893	140	177	65	41	75
35-44	1,238	658	159	190	78	66	87
45-54	752	390	105	84	45	75	53
55 or older	317	188	44	11	12	52	10
Unknown	79	45	7	5	5	0	17

*Includes American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asians, Native Hawaiians, other Pacific Islanders, and persons of two or more races.

To me this shows that it is not a racial thing. It happens to all races. These figures however do not show those thought "murdered" by police. I have not yet located data for recent years. Why can't I find data for recent years? I do not know.. maybe the Dept of Just Us and Race-Grievance Industry don't want it known that whites are the most likely to die being arrested.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“”Looks like we dodged a bullet”

Nah, apparently we dodged a BB. ;-)

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: FBI data

I should have pointed out in my reply #2 that the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD) program gets data from multiple sources and the stats are not just the FBI.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Race baiters won’t talk about white-on-white, black-on-white or black-on-black police abuse because that doesn’t help their cause.

Law & Order Conservative won’t talk about any police abuse.

That only leaves the white-on-black abuse to make the national news.

[NativeSon]

How is there 1 “unknown” in the sex of the person category ?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I guess there wasn’t enough left of the deceased to tell. Or one of many reporting agencies simply did not list that information.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

BBell:".. although there was a vague mention of "weapons on the scene." Later, we learned the boy had a BB gun."

Legally , and technically , an "immitation rifle".

[Verginius Rufus]

If you combine the Black and Hispanic totals for "all manners" they outnumber the Whites by a 5-to-4 ratio despite the fact that whites are well over half the population.

Of course what should count is not their percentage in the overall population but their percentage in the pool of people doing stuff that cause the police to arrest them.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: the pool of people doing stuff that cause the police to arrest them.

It's expected that whites' crimes outnumber the others due to our majority population. But..

that's right, that even though whites outnumber blacks nowadays at least six-to-one the arrests for murder for example are about even.

I don't think that whites outnumber blacks six-to-one on any crime.

Why do I make it such a big? Because the lucrative race-grievance industry and the MSM employees lie about how black Americans are always the victims.

Arrests 2012

FBI Table 43A 2012

Offense charged	Total arrests	Percent distribution
	Total	White	Black	American Indian or Alaskan Native	Asian or Pacific Islander			Total	White	Black	American Indian or Alaskan Native	Asian or Pacific Islander
TOTAL	9,390,473	6,502,919	2,640,067	135,165	112,322			100.0	69.3	28.1	1.4	1.2
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	8,506	4,101	4,203	102	100			100.0	48.2	49.4	1.2	1.2
Forcible rape	13,886	9,027	4,512	183	164			100.0	65.0	32.5	1.3	1.2
Robbery	80,135	34,761	44,002	601	771			100.0	43.4	54.9	0.7	1.0
Aggravated assault	299,943	188,505	102,371	4,312	4,755			100.0	62.8	34.1	1.4	1.6
Burglary	219,232	147,156	67,554	1,966	2,556			100.0	67.1	30.8	0.9	1.2
Larceny-theft	994,304	677,895	288,025	15,052	13,332			100.0	68.2	29.0	1.5	1.3
Motor vehicle theft	52,952	35,251	16,301	645	755			100.0	66.6	30.8	1.2	1.4
Arson	8,827	6,500	2,083	141	103			100.0	73.6	23.6	1.6	1.2
Violent crime	402,470	236,394	155,088	5,198	5,790			100.0	58.7	38.5	1.3	1.4
Property crime	1,275,315	866,802	373,963	17,804	16,746			100.0	68.0	29.3	1.4	1.3
Other assaults	924,839	606,048	294,678	13,898	10,215			100.0	65.5	31.9	1.5	1.1
Forgery and counterfeiting	51,759	33,950	16,900	239	670			100.0	65.6	32.7	0.5	1.3
Fraud	117,706	78,331	37,171	1,143	1,061			100.0	66.5	31.6	1.0	0.9
Embezzlement	12,371	7,994	4,103	74	200			100.0	64.6	33.2	0.6	1.6
Stolen property; buying, receiving, possessing	75,516	50,144	23,787	615	970			100.0	66.4	31.5	0.8	1.3
Vandalism	175,243	125,987	44,650	2,845	1,761			100.0	71.9	25.5	1.6	1.0
Weapons; carrying, possessing, etc.	114,979	66,909	45,842	764	1,464			100.0	58.2	39.9	0.7	1.3
Prostitution and commercialized vice	43,216	23,172	18,486	175	1,383			100.0	53.6	42.8	0.4	3.2
Sex offenses (except forcible rape and prostitution)	52,354	38,063	12,850	628	813			100.0	72.7	24.5	1.2	1.6
Drug abuse violations	1,194,956	801,198	372,914	8,299	12,545			100.0	67.0	31.2	0.7	1.0
Gambling	5,951	1,707	4,008	22	214			100.0	28.7	67.4	0.4	3.6
Offenses against the family and children	81,762	53,760	25,698	1,740	564			100.0	65.8	31.4	2.1	0.7
Driving under the influence	981,110	830,498	118,557	13,313	18,742			100.0	84.6	12.1	1.4	1.9
Liquor laws	337,687	275,457	46,355	11,314	4,561			100.0	81.6	13.7	3.4	1.4
Drunkenness	398,600	324,209	62,944	7,218	4,229			100.0	81.3	15.8	1.8	1.1
Disorderly conduct	418,960	262,810	145,183	7,751	3,216			100.0	62.7	34.7	1.9	0.8
Vagrancy	20,698	13,034	7,080	389	195			100.0	63.0	34.2	1.9	0.9
All other offenses (except traffic)	2,649,909	1,773,792	808,609	41,206	26,302			100.0	66.9	30.5	1.6	1.0
Suspicion	1,160	610	535	4	11			100.0	52.6	46.1	0.3	0.9
Curfew and loitering law violations	53,912	32,050	20,666	526	670			100.0	59.4	38.3	1.0	1.2
	Total	White	Black	American Indian or Alaskan Native	Asian or Pacific Islander			Total	White	Black	American Indian or Alaskan Native	Asian or Pacific Islander

[Verginius Rufus]

I notice that there is no separate column for Hispanics, so they are including Hispanics in the totals for whites.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: Hispanics included as whites

Yes I believe so. Some tables I've seen have "White non-Hispanic" and "Black non-Hispanic"

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Though this table is not germane I am adding it to the two others. There's real data out there to refute claims by the lucrative race-grievance industry. Americans can handle the truth but there's no profit in truth for the race-grievance industry. Others of course just want to see strife and turmoil.

Every chance they get they "never let it go to waste." Lies or whatever it takes. They "never let it go to waste."

Here there is a modicum of truth in the claims vis-a-vis prison sentences but hardly anything close to the gross victimization claimed by the race-grievance industry and the Obama-Holder Dept of Just Us.

National Corrections Reporting Program: Sentence length of state prisoners, by offense, admission type, sex, and race

Bureau of Justice Statistics filename: ncrp0911.csv @ Bureau of Justice Statistics
Table 11. First releases from state prison, 2009: Sentence length and time served in prison, by offense and race
data source: National Corrections Reporting Program, 2009
Table 11. First releases from state prison, 2009: Sentence length and time served in prison, by offense and race

All times in months.

			White						Black
			Maximum sentence length\1		Time served in prison				Maximum sentence length\1		Time served in prison
Most serious offense			Median\2	Mean\3	Median	Mean	Percent of maximum sentence served in prison		Median\2	Mean\3	Median	Mean	Percent of maximum sentence served in prison
All offenses			48	61	15	26	42.6%		48	66	17	32	48.5%
Violent offenses			60	82	27	47	57.3%		60	92	31	56	60.9%
Homicide			120	145	69	101	69.7%		180	192	123	136	70.8%
Murder/nonnegligent manslaughter			240	219	142	158	72.1%		216	232	160	166	71.6%
Murder			288	238	161	173	72.7%		240	252	170	177	70.2%
Nonnegligent manslaughter			132	164	97	100	61.0%		132	165	117	121	73.3%
Negligent manslaughter			72	92	35	49	53.3%		84	111	47	63	56.8%
Unspecified homicide			108	138	47	59	42.8%		84	143	61	81	56.6%
Kidnapping			59	81	30	56	69.1%		60	84	35	62	73.8%
Rape			120	134	74	88	65.7%		108	141	78	103	73.0%
Other sexual assault			72	88	41	53	60.2%		60	86	35	52	60.5%
Robbery			70	90	32	47	52.2%		72	101	38	57	56.4%
Assault			42	57	18	28	49.1%		48	64	20	33	51.6%
Other violent			36	52	15	23	44.2%		36	54	17	26	48.1%
Property offenses			36	54	13	20	37.0%		36	53	14	22	41.5%
Burglary			48	64	15	24	37.5%		48	64	16	28	43.8%
Larceny			36	46	11	16	34.8%		30	43	12	17	39.5%
Motor vehicle theft			31	41	12	18	43.9%		36	45	13	20	44.4%
Arson			60	76	21	33	43.4%		60	83	27	42	50.6%
Fraud			36	48	12	17	35.4%		34	47	12	17	36.2%
Stolen property			36	51	12	18	35.3%		36	52	13	21	40.4%
Other property			36	46	11	15	32.6%		36	41	11	15	36.6%
Drug offenses			48	60	13	19	31.7%		48	61	15	22	36.1%
Possession			36	49	10	14	28.6%		36	52	12	17	32.7%
Trafficking			60	75	14	21	28.0%		48	70	17	25	35.7%
Other/unspecified drug			42	53	15	23	43.4%		36	51	16	23	45.1%
Public-order offenses			36	47	13	19	40.4%		36	49	16	24	49.0%
Weapons			36	49	17	24	49.0%		36	49	19	25	51.0%
Driving while intoxicated			36	47	12	15	31.9%		24	41	11	15	36.6%
Other public-order			36	46	14	21	45.7%		36	50	15	25	50.0%
Other offenses			60	78	20	33	42.3%		60	87	17	30	34.5%

			White						Black
			Maximum sentence length\1		Time served in prison				Maximum sentence length\1		Time served in prison
			Median\2	Mean\3	Median	Mean	Percent of maximum sentence served in prison		Median\2	Mean\3	Median	Mean	Percent of maximum sentence served in prison
Number of releases			119,313	118,400	119,313	119,313			95,546	95,017	95,546	95,546

Note: Data are based on all first releases with a total sentence of more than a year for whom

• the most serious offense,
• maximum sentence length,
• time served in prison, and
• race

were reported.

1. \Sentence length refers to the maximum sentence that an offender may be required to serve for the most serious offense.
2. \Includes sentences of life without parole, life plus additional years, life, and death.
3. \Excludes sentences of life without parole, life plus additional years, life, and death.