I thought only news outlets in DFW left out race when giving decsriptions of perps. Case in point: a mugger was ‘working’ a section of Dallas with a large number of restaurants and clubs. News outlets gave description of height, weight, clothes and a distinguishing feature(a gold front tooth) of the mugger. Left out of the description was the race of the mugger. Mugger was eventually caaught and turned out to be black. Many who lived in the surrounding neighborhoods or frequented the establishments in the area complained that if they had been given the perp’s race, they may have been able to identfy him sooner.
One of the local conservative talk show hosts addressed the complaints of so-called black leaders over the sheer number of black men locked up in Texas’ jails or prison system. He said flatly more blacks are in jail and prison because they commit more of the crimes. Specifically,blacks commit more of the violent crimes and are rightly incarcerated for them.
In the end, stories like this should serve as a clarion call to the black community that something is seriously broken in their families and culture. When you turn out more perps than PhD’s or more thugs than taxpayers, that should serve as a red flag warning that something is seriously broken and needs to be fixed. Just my $0.02 worth.
Well put; the response up here to news blackout (pardon the pun) when it comes to perps is that they are assumed to black, and the segregation is widespread enough that they already stand out like sore thumbs. A similar thing happens with college campus crimes, and the stories are buried (along with their racial component) so that rich whites are comfortable sending their daughters and dollars to the schools. While leaving people unprotected by omitting such details is bad enough, to actually give out a number for tips while omitting them would be laughable if it didn’t involve such serious crimes.
People make their own deductions (based on these experiences), and their adjusted behavior is labeled racist. Oh well, better racist than raped/murdered/robbed.