Why Is Austin Media Refusing to Release Description of At-Large Austin Shooter? Just Kidding. You Know Why.

PJ Media ^ | JUN 12, 2021 7:35 PM ET | PAULA BOLYARD

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Early Saturday morning, a gunman shot and injured at least 19 people outside an Austin, Texas, bar. Rick Moran reported:

Sixth Street in Austin, Texas, was crowded with post-Covid revelers on Friday night when a man described as “black” with a thin build and “dreadlocks” opened fire outside a bar. At least 13 people were taken to the hospital. Of the 13 wounded, 11 were in stable condition with two critical.

On Saturday afternoon, the Austin Police Department updated its website to say that one suspect is in custody, while another is still at large. Earlier in the day, police released this description of the suspect:

The suspect(s) remains at-large. It is unknown if there is one, or multiple suspects involved. There is one suspect described as a black male, with dread locks, wearing a black shirt and a skinny build. The area will be closed for an extended amount of time to process the crime scene. Investigators are collecting and reviewing camera footage and surveillance video.

That description—black, male, dreadlocks—was not only in an official announcement by the APD, but it was all over social media as well on Saturday. But the city’s flagship newspaper, the Austin-American Statesman, is refusing to release the description of the suspect, a dangerous mass shooter who is still on the run, because—you guessed it—it would be racist to do so. The newspaper explained in an Editor’s Note appended to its main story on the shooting:

Editor’s note: Police have only released a vague description of the suspected shooter as of Saturday morning. The Austin American-Statesman is not including the description as it is too vague at this time to be useful in identifying the shooter and such publication could be harmful in perpetuating stereotypes. If more detailed information is released, we will update...

[Glad2bnuts]

Were the victims non-BIPOC? This is the dynamite going off, and bLM and antifa lit the fuse.

[null and void]

No idea, wasn’t there and I’m not really following the incident.

Mass shootings always spike when gun control legislation is on the table and democrats need a pile of bodies to build a grandstand.

At that point it isn’t really newsworthy that they are being used as props.

[null and void]

Not both?

[Califreak]

Mrs Swan got the editor job I guess.

(He look like a man!)

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Renaming the paper the “Austin Un-American Unstable-man”

[Feckless]

I once wrote a letter to the Editor of the Waco Trib over this issue.

I told them if they report a serial car jacker and fail to tell me he's White that some Brother was going to get two in the chest for asking directions.

They didn't print it.

[T.B. Yoits]

The term is "aiding and abetting".

...and yes, it's not just that these outlets are spreading propaganda, they're aiding and abetting the crimes committed as well as racial discrimination when they identify white perps but not black ones.

[dearolddad]

Media blackout?

Isn't blackout kinda racist?

[ScubaDiver]

"The Austin American-Statesman is not including the description as it is too vague"

So, according to these journalists, a description is 'too vague' if including it ELIMINATES more than 90% of the population (black men are less than 10% of the US population)?

Not only are these idiots partisan hacks, but they also don't grasp elementary school math.

[Dogbert41]

I just watched a News clip on boobtube about the shooting. I was distinctly left with the impression the shooters where white bikers. Seriously.

https://youtu.be/eBbMrs5YpFk

[SauronOfMordor]

They are also not mentioning the victims, who from videos I’ve seen appear to be white.

[Pollard]

and such publication could be harmful in perpetuating stereotypes

I think the thin black man with dreadlocks already did that himself

[Leep]

Trump’s name would probably be in said article,too.

[SMARTY]

I always wonder if an ‘article’ so imprecise and badly written would even be accepted in a ‘Journalism’ course.

Maybe I just answered my own question. We get lazy, stupid, biased ‘journalists’ because we have lazy, stupid, biased instructors.

[null and void]

Perhaps, but in these daze of spelt Czech and Otto Kor Wrecked, White Out isn’t as readily available or common...

[Bernard]

description as it is too vague

Sounds like liberal code for "they all look alike"

[Mr. Jeeves]

They didn't print it.

But they probably referred it to their favorite authority figures as an example of the horrible "white supremacist" attitudes in their area.

[rlmorel]

I have given much thought to this and have made some assumptions with both of you may or may not find helpful. I get my statistics from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting system (LINK) which aggregates crime statistics voluntarily submitted from everywhere around the country. I suggest you use this, so when people accuse you of racism (which will invariably happen) you can tell them where you got the data and how it is calculated.

For the years 2009-2019, here is

• As for the statement about crime perpetrated by black males, I think the more accurate way to state this is that roughly 1% of the population cause 46% of all violent crime. Here is why I would make that statement:
  
  
  • Blacks make up 12% of the overall population, and males are half of that, so that drops the percent of the total population down to 6%, and I don't include women because the vast majority of all violent crime is by black men.
    
    
  • There is a study that states 30% of all black males have a felony conviction, so that roughly reduces it from 6% to 2% of the total population of the USA.
    • Felony convictions of black men include both violent felonies (homicides/assaults, etc.) and non-violent felonies (theft, drug related, etc.) and I would be surprised if felonies for violent crime were 50% of that whole number, so that brings the percentage of black men who are responsible for violent crime in the US to the level where black men engaged in violent crime (a population of 1% of the total United States Population)
      • Keep in mind that there is likely a stratification within that 1% of the US population that is uneven. There may be an individual black man out of that 1% who commits one violent crime that is included in the national statistics, and another black individual man out of that same 1% who may commit multiple violent offenses.
    
    
    
  • Violent crime is described by the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system as follows:
    Violent crime includes the offenses of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape (revised definition), robbery, and aggravated assault."
  
  
  
• It is also to keep in mind how these events are counted:
  
  "...This data reflects the hierarchy rule, which requires that only the most serious offense in a case be counted. The descending order of violent crimes are homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, followed by the property crimes of burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. Although arson is also a property crime, the hierarchy rule does not apply to it. In cases in which an arson occurs in conjunction with another violent or property crime, both crimes are reported...". This means that if a man robs a woman, beats her to a bloody pulp, rapes her, then shoots her in the head, only the crime of shooting her in the head is counted in these statistics.

So, when you go to the FBI UCR website, Go to the Crime Data Explorer (CDE) section and filter down to violent crime, show race, and click to show percentages instead of total numbers (the total numbers of violent crime, by the way, for this subset of black men in the USA committing violent crime, the overall summary numbers for statistics of all violent crimes by all categories (inclusive of race, sex, etc):

FROM THE UCR Website: "...For 2010 - 2019, there were 3,146,693 violent-crime incidents, and 3,599,117 offenses reported by the by at most 5,962 law enforcement agencies that submitted incident-based (NIBRS) data, and covers 27% of the total population..."

Here is the screen capture from that website with percentages, for violent crime:

[hanamizu]

This Brit explains it pretty well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAD9mvBSHbg&t=3s

[Feckless]

For years I CC’d all of my letters to my case officer in the Secret Service to save him from clipping them out. Clintoon episode.