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Category Archives: Crime
South Africa: 49 Murders a Day
Chaim Amalek: “Nebech! As compelling an argument as can be made for allowing any South African refugee from violence who wants it a place in the USA or Germany.” REPORT: In what some politicians have described as a “war zone,” … Continue reading
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Eighth-Graders Allegedly Stab Woman to Death at Car Wash, Prop Her Body Up for a Joyride
Nicole Bitette, NY Daily News, November 13, 2015: Two Missouri teenagers fatally stabbed a woman while she was vacuuming her car and then went on a gruesome joyride with her dead body propped up in the front seat, according to … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: The Disappearing Federal Homicide Offenders Racial Ratio
Steve Sailer writes: Back in the previous decade, you could look up on the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics website a convenient graph in HTML form of “homicide offending” trends over time. But the Obama Administration stopped maintaining that website … Continue reading
Google Pumps $2.35 Million Into Racial Justice Projects, Including #BlackLivesMatter Video App
Comments: * The $2.35 will evaporate without a trace, having done nothing nor moved the needle one iota. The professional ‘helpers’ working on behalf of the benighted will have some paydays ahead of them, that’s about it. I suppose the … Continue reading
I Hope The Next President Is As Good As Obama
Comment: We’re finally mostly out of Iraq and getting there in Afghanistan, and we didn’t get into a new war in Syria (against Russia) like the Republicans wanted. We have relations again with Iran and Cuba. There are no new … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: Within Obama Administration, White and Black Officials Squabble Over Blame for 2015 Murder Spike
Steve Sailer writes: From the NYT: Officials Debate Effect of Scrutiny on Police By ERIC LICHTBLAU NOV. 4, 2015 WASHINGTON — A rift widened Wednesday within the Obama administration over the politically charged question of whether a surge in crime … Continue reading
Crime Shoots Up In New York Following Black Lives Matter Movement
Comments to Steve Sailer: * In the late 1980s early 1990s NYC was often above 2000 homicides and those numbers are now in the 500/600 range. The number of murders per year in NYC fell from 2,262 in 1990 to … Continue reading
NYT: Where Are Black Children Safe?
Comments at NYTimes.com: * They are safest living in communities where there are very few other black youth. * Where are black children’s manners? This young woman was disobeying her teacher and then refusing to cooperate with a police officer … Continue reading
The Decriminalization Delusion
Heather MacDonald writes: In July 2015, President Obama paid a press-saturated visit to a federal penitentiary in Oklahoma. The cell blocks that Obama toured had been evacuated in anticipation of his arrival, but after talking to six carefully prescreened inmates, … Continue reading
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The Ferguson Effect
Mike McDaniel writes: The President’s spokesliar, Josh Earnest, following a rather convincing—and no doubt, embarrassing–pair of statements by FBI director James Comey about the chilling of the “Ferguson Effect” on our nation’s police, proclaimed that there is no evidence of … Continue reading