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

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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

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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

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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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