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Category Archives: Crime
Black Violence
The latest tweets: * Black male gunned his white neighbor down in front of his pregnant girlfriend. * Black male calls 911 and confesses to his white mother & girlfriend’s murder. * Black female shot woman to death; kept the … Continue reading
Baltimore, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the new racial politics
Fred Siegel writes: In the summer of 1966, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach warned that there would be riots by angry, poor minority residents in “30 or 40” American cities if Congress didn’t pass President Lyndon Johnson’s Model Cities antipoverty legislation. … Continue reading
Black Uber Drivers On A Crime Rampage
Comment: “In the last several days, two separate incidences have occurred in Atlanta whereby black Uber drivers and “carpool” accomplices have picked up and later viciously beaten up, robbed, and left for dead white patrons leaving bars at closing time … Continue reading
America’s Newest Christmas Tradition: Black Mob Violence at Malls
Colin Flaherty writes: American has a new Christmas tradition: Black mob violence at malls. In the days before, during, and after Christmas, 15 malls reported large-scale episodes of rioting, shooting, looting, rampaging, fighting, throwing rocks at police, damaging cars and … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: A New Boxing Day Tradition for America: The Annual Day After Christmas Mall Brawl
Comments: * No. Not an American tradition. An African-American tradition. * Here in Flint, the main mall was forced to implement a curfew policy on weekends due to feral youths. Not a bad policy overall but I found it very … Continue reading
Black Violence
Here are some tweets from this important account: * It’s time for white Americans to boycott black Hollywood and their supporters. * Published on Dec 28, 2015: In this footage, released 6 days ago, a Muslim immigrant in Germany brags … Continue reading
Trying to Hide the Rise of Violent Crime
Heather Mac Donald writes: Murders and shootings have spiked in many American cities—and so have efforts to ignore or deny the crime increase. The see-no-evil campaign eagerly embraced a report last month by the Brennan Center for Justice called “Crime … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: What Are the Most Useful Data Points to Memorize?
Comments: * The black crime rate is over 6 times greater than the average American rate. The black on white crime is 55 times greater than the white on black crime rate. The black on white murder is only 13 … Continue reading
America’s White Murder Rate Is About The Same As For Whites Elsewhere
National Review: This brings to mind Matt Yglesias’s recent discussion of the white-on-white murder rate in the U.S., an effort to shed light on what some are calling the “fallacy” of talking about black-on-black crime. Yglesias warns that “white-on-white murder … Continue reading
How criminologists who study biology are shunned by their field
ESSAY: I am a criminologist by training, which means that I make my living trying to better understand the causes of criminal behavior. My research specialty in particular is something my colleagues and I call biosocial criminology. What is that, … Continue reading