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Category Archives: Crime
Democrats Are The Party Of The Disaffected
Comments to Steve Sailer: * “Hillary Campaigns to be America’s Third Black President” Modelling yourself after the only living two-term Democratic presidents seems wise, no? The high/low strategy of simultaneously appealing to affluent suburban whites and poor minorities wins elections, … Continue reading
The Ferguson Effect
Comments to Steve Sailer: * What’s so magical about 12 month periods of time? Cultural shifts may take time to sink in and spread out. They act like a ‘Ferguson Effect’ is as a light switch that gets snapped on … Continue reading
What’s Wrong With Chicago?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * So far this year Chicago has had 47 homicides, 45 by gun, and 221 gunshot woundings (don’t know how many non-fatal stabbings or serious assaults with blunt instruments). This will increase a bit since January … Continue reading
The White Death and the Black Death
Steve Sailer writes: I coined the term “the White Death” to refer to the rise in death rates among non-elderly whites during this century. It appears to be related to overdoses from prescription painkillers and heroin. Nobody paid much, if … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Crime, Immigration, Whites
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Anatomy Of The LA Riots
Comments to Steve Sailer: * How does O.J’s fugitive run relate to Bruce/Caitlyn? Reading your insight about racially charged female intra-sexual competion on the jury, I wonder if there is also a connection to how most of the Kardashian/Jenner sisters … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, California, Crime, Los Angeles
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The Lessons Of The OJ Simpson Acquittal
Steve Sailer writes: For crimethinkers, however, the O.J. case offered a cornucopia of insights: – If blacks get themselves all worked up over the putative racist injustices of a particular case, it will probably turn out to be a factual … Continue reading
Black Violence
We hear the media talking about police violence, but they rarely say the phrase “black violence.” A Google News search today found 81,500 results for “police violence” and just 8,390 results for “black violence” and yet blacks in America kill … Continue reading
How Labour turned London into a foreign city: Fewer than half the capital’s population are white British, gangsters from Somalia terrorise the suburbs and even the tramps are immigrants, reveals astonishing new book
Daily Mail: An Afghan and I once broke into a small house in Peckham. I had met him while researching a report on immigration for the Daily Mail. We were on a rescue mission. Inside the two-up, two-down property in … Continue reading
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Did A Serial-Killer Set Up Steven Avery?
This makes sense. Observer: Remember that one time I asked if true-crime stories like Making a Murderer–the Netflix doc centered on the bizarre murder of Wisconsin’s Teresa Halbach, for which Steven Avery is still in prison— lead to dangerous, outlandish … Continue reading
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Racial bean-counting is making schools unsafe
New York Post: Black students misbehave more often. Tragically, school administrators are so fearful of saying it that they’re being intimidated into ceding control of classrooms to violent, disruptive students. That’s the story in New York City, where serious crimes … Continue reading