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Category Archives: Crime
Elite v Popular Discourse on Crime & Race & Subway shooter (4-13-22)
00:00 Brooklyn shooting suspect Frank James facing terror-related charges after calling Crime Stoppers on himself, https://nypost.com/2022/04/13/brooklyn-shooting-suspect-frank-james-in-police-custody/ 35:00 Elliott Blatt joins 37:30 Ethan Ralph’s upcoming corn harvest 41:00 With Mr Metokurs health problems, when he appears he’s like Elvis 49:00 Maybe … Continue reading
Explaining away crime: The race narrative in American sociology and ethical theory
Stephen Turner writes in 2020: Rates of crime for Blacks in the United States in the post-slavery era have always been high relative to Whites. But explaining, or minimizing, this fact faces a major problem: individual excuses for bad acts … Continue reading
Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
Here are some highlights from Charles Murray’s new book: * From the first census in 1790 through the 1850 census, the population within America’s settled regions was 82–84 percent European and the rest was African. Subsequent tides of immigration increased … Continue reading
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WP: A man refused to mask up at a high school basketball game. Then he killed an officer who intervened, police say.
You should probably use common sense before telling a stranger to mask up. With this dude, I would not tell him anything: John Shallerhorn From the Washington Post: The George Washington Carver High School basketball team had built a huge … Continue reading
The Growth, Scope, and Spatial Distribution of People With Felony Records in the United States, 1948–2010
From a 2017 paper: * Western and Pettit have shown that incarceration has become a routine life event for low-skilled black men—more common than serving in the military or earning a college degree (Pettit and Western 2004; Western 2006). The … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘tempers are rankled by sweltering temperatures’
Comment: “This is the Spike Lee theory of criminality, I believe. First mentioned in “Do the Right Thing,” then “Summer of Sam.” The heat made me do it, yes sah. I’m surprised the Times hasn’t gone full-bore with this and … Continue reading
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How To Stop Illegal Fireworks?
From the comments at Steve Sailer: * Matt Drudge must be under sedation. This kind of story would top his page in his heydey. Now he’s hardly updated anything from yesterday. * Maybe they should have Jason Pierre-Paul talk to … Continue reading
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The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Here are some highlights from this Gavin de Becker book: * You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations. * When free of judgment, we … Continue reading
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DM: ‘Violent thug’ with a face tattoo of an angel holding a machine gun is arrested after ‘killing his lover when he refused to delete explicit pictures’
Daily Mail article. Comments at Steve Sailer: * Long story short: Our friend, who had recently been released from prison, having completed his sentence, was having a sexual friendship with the victim, who had posted sexually explicit photographs online–as one … Continue reading
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Where Were The Police?
From the Los Angeles Times: Aaron Landy watched for hours on Saturday night as people on foot and then in cars moved up and down Melrose Avenue looting stores and setting them on fire, doing wheelies in the street and … Continue reading
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