There is no epidemic of fatal police shootings against unarmed Black Americans
Ideally officers would never need to take anyone's life. But the data on police killings doesn't support reducing or abolishing law enforcement.
Heather Mac Donald
Opinion contributor
Much of modern policing is driven by crime data and community demands for help. The African American community tends to be policed more heavily, because that is where people are disproportionately hurt by violent street crime. In New York City in 2018, 73% of shooting victims were Black, though Black residents comprise only 24% of the city’s population.
Nationally, African Americans between the ages of 10 and 34 die from homicide at 13 times the rate of white Americans, according to researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Justice Department.
Community requests also determine police deployment, and the most urgent requests often come from law-abiding residents of high-crime neighborhoods.
An elderly resident in the Mount Hope neighborhood of the Bronx once described to me her fear of entering her building lobby, since it was so often occupied by trespassing youth hanging out and selling drugs. The only time she felt safe was when law enforcement was around: As long as she saw the police, she told me, everything is OK. You can come down and get your mail and talk to decent people
Blacks commit 90% of interracial crimes. That’s why they in prison. You already see lots of examples. Black Lives Matter vs chine lives, who matters more? Hmmm..
call it the pretext of “comforting the families of victims” because Biden did not go to Boulder, Colorado, a year ago to comfort the families of victims after a very similar attack at a food market by a 21-year-old Trump-hating Islamist immigrant who murdered 10 white men and women.
He has not traveled across the country to comfort the families of victims murdered by gang and drug thugs who are responsible for the daily carnage on Demos’ urban poverty plantations across our nation, like those who committed the “mass assault” in downtown Sacramento a month ago, killing six. Nor did he mention the families of those five people murdered in Chicago, five more in St. Louis and three in Milwaukee — among more than 80 others murdered by thugs nationwide the same weekend as the Buffalo attack.
Why?
Obviously, those assailants and assaults did not fit the Left’s racial narrative, so those stories quickly faded from the mainstream media’s footnotes on crime — as did coverage of the more than 21,000 other murders in the latest year of record. They were of no value as political fodder for Democrat Partypoliticos.
Biden and his cadre are not about to mention the fact that black people commit 90% of interracial felonies — black on white, Hispanic or Asian — despite representing just 13% of our population. That would include the commission of 21% of hate crimes, as defined by the FBI. Nor will they mention the tragic fact that 88% of the suspects who murdered black people are also black.
The rare instance of white supremacist violence is a loud Demo/MSM dog whistle diversion from the real disparity in interracial violence and the cultural reality of black-on-black violence.
By comparison with the aforementioned 21,000 murders, according to the latest FBI data on “mass shootings” — which it defines as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area” — in a nation of 330 million people, there were 38 victims in 2020, there were 43 victims in 2021, and including Buffalo and Sacramento, there have been 30 victims this year.
So, Joe, why Buffalo?
Because it fit Biden’s diversionary claim that the most “lethal threat to the homeland” is actually white supremacy.
We got a hint of what he would say before his departure, as Politico noted he was “telling aides that he no longer recognizes the GOP, which he now views as an existential threat to the nation’s democracy.” In other words, if you disagree with Joe Biden and his thugs, you are an existential threat to our nation.
@naval where’s your data? I doubt you have it. If you do, it’s often time incomplete aimed to fool people. I know because, first off, people don’t go to jail for possession of marijuana, without any prior criminal records. Majority of the time, even repeated drug users, without any other criminal offenses, will get court ordered drug treatment or community service. The vast majority of these that end up going to jail do so because they have other charges associated with it, ie: selling, distributing, acting recklessly, or they have prior offenses. Many times cops will arrest a person for a “holding” charge. This means the person has prior felony, and this time, even when the offense is minor, the cops will use that charge in order to bring them in.
you really need to have a well rounded experience before becoming an activist. Most of what you throw around either don’t exist or are skewed and half truths presented as “data” from race baiters who aim to rile up people for race wars.
People on this forum are well educated from different disciplines. We all have been in the real world unlike you. So don’t think you’re dealing with some naive college kid.
what I see from you is just repeating the same lies over and over. That’s what we call propaganda. Keep an open mind and look at all sides, that way, you will be get some respect.
ACLU’s 2013 analysis, which had previously concluded, “[O]n average, a Black person is 3.73 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than a white person, even though Blacks and whites use marijuana at similar rates
Just as I said before, the article and the sources it cited had no data on any prior criminal acts or arrests, nor did it mention what kind of sentences they got. Rubbish data.
@athena Noy everything in the media is reported is tccurate because the CEO controls the narrative presented to the viewers. Low information is for viewers who have no first-hand experience because they rely on information from a bias media.
@naval and you have first hand information? Or is it fed to you by extremist biased sources. Trust me when it comes to first hand, most of us here have a lot more experience than you.
@athena my black friends get discriminated against by the police in front of my eyes so I know firsthand. if you get some black friends and spent some time, you will eventually start to pick up these things.
@naval tell me about that incident, I can judge more myself since 99% of what you posted are lies. I know have black friends throughout my life so I have experience too.
anyway, I ask again why are you crusading for blacks and chinese. They are quite capable themselves. Better to focus your effort on being a well rounded person, heh?
@athena give asians 4 blacks lives matter some potato chips to gain some leverage. Everyone on this forum has already tried reasoning with him so you as well try something different 😀
Ps: this is not your thread asians 4 blacks lives matter.
🤬#Fight Chinese Oppression #Viet Lives Matter 🤠 #Stop Chinese absorption of Vietnam. #Free Uyghurs #Free Austronesians in Taiwan. #free the Tibetans.
