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Category Archives: Crime
WP: This study found race matters in police shootings, but the results may surprise you
Nobody wants to make their life harder, so police understandably hesitate longer before shooting a black suspect. Washington Post: The conventional thinking about police-involved shootings, and some scientific research, has been that black suspects are more likely to be shot … Continue reading
Ben Southwood: How far a child is allowed to walk on their own, then vs. now
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Do White Lives Matter?
Rabbi Nachum Shifren emails his list April 14: In America today, there’s some things you just don’t say. I will say them… I taught for 25 years in arguably the worst school district in the nation: Los Angeles Unified (?). … Continue reading
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Heather Mac Donald: Violent crime has shot up due to the nonstop war on cops waged by Shaun King, Black Lives Matter, and the ACLU
Heather Mac Donald writes: Will the anti-cop Left please figure out what it wants? For more than a decade, activists have demanded the end of proactive policing, claiming that it was racist. Pedestrian stops—otherwise known as stop, question, and frisk—were … Continue reading
Pitbulls Account for Half of Dog Fatalities
And blacks account for about half of murders in America. Comments to Steve Sailer: * So Presas kill 2,582 times more per capita than labs. For some extreme human disparities, blacks in Chicago were 45 times more likely to be … Continue reading
CBS: 85-Year-Old Man Dies After Being Severely Beaten In Downtown LA
I find downtown scary. I don’t know how people can live there. CBS: LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Authorities say an 85-year-old man who was standing outside to get a breath of fresh air died Monday after being severely beaten in … Continue reading
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Study Reveals NFL Players with Low Wonderlic (IQ) Scores More Likely to Be Arrested
This is no surprise to anyone acquainted with IQ’s predictive ability. REPORT: In a new NFL draft-related study released Tuesday, it was revealed there may be a correlation between players scoring poorly on the Wonderlic test and running into off-field … Continue reading
LAT: A disproportionate share of blacks and Latinos lose their driver’s licenses because of unpaid tickets, study finds
Knock me over with a feather. I would never have expected this. Aside from this blip, blacks and latinos in America are otherwise a picture of financial probity and are famed for their strong family units, high education and incomes, … Continue reading
Aborigines & Crime
From Wikipedia: Indigenous Australians commit crimes and are imprisoned at a disproportionately high rate in Australia. According to one source, there is “gross overrepresentation of Indigenous offenders at all stages of the criminal justice system”.[1] The 2006 census documented that … Continue reading
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Jamaica Needs Black Lives Matter
Comments: * Black lives matter but only if they are killed by a White person. There is a reason why Black Lies Matter does not exist in Jamaica for example, which has one of the highest murder rates in the … Continue reading
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